Occupation art director Years active 1939-1983 | Name E. Ames Role Film Art Director | |
Full Name Edgar Preston Ames Born June 15, 1906 San Mateo, California, USA Died July 20, 1983, Los Angeles, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Production Design Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction - Series Art directed Gigi, Lust for Life, Brigadoon, Torch Song Production designed Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Similar People Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B Willis, Adrienne Fazan, Alexander Golitzen, Edward Carfagno | ||
E. Preston Ames (June 15, 1906 – July 20, 1983) was a famous Hollywood art director.
Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director.
In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Ames won 2 Oscars (for An American in Paris in 1951 and Gigi in 1958) and was nominated an additional six times.
Among the highlights of his career were creating the mystical town of Brigadoon in 1954, recreating the Titanic in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964, mocking up an airport for the film of the same name in 1970 and reducing Los Angeles to rubble in Earthquake in 1974.
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