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Billy Gibbons (second cousin once-removed) Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 [1] – July 26, 1960) was an American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George ...
Cedric Gibbons (born March 23, 1890, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1960, Westwood, California) was an Irish American art director for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion-picture studio; his name appears on nearly 1,500 films produced by that studio during the 32 years (1924–56) that he worked there.
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Cedric Gibbons (1893-1960) was a renowned art director and set decorator who worked for MGM for 32 years. He designed the Oscar statuette and won 11 of them for his work on films such as The Wizard of Oz, Gaslight, and An American in Paris.
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Learn about Cedric Gibbons, the set designer who created the Oscar trophy and won 11 Academy Awards for art direction. Explore his career, his films and his marriages at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin.
May 18, 2018 · Cedric Gibbons was an American art director who won 11 Academy Awards for his work on MGM films. He was born in New York in 1893 and died in Westwood, California in 1960.
Sep 17, 2019 · MGM Style: Cedric Gibbons and the Art of the Golden Age of Hollywood by Howard Gutner. Stefanie Waldek is a freelance journalist based in Saratoga Springs, New York, with more than a decade of ...
Cedric Gibbons. Art Director: Gaslight. After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of those. He ...
