Edwin B. Willis
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Edwin B. Willis (b.28 January 1893 in Illinois -d.26 November 1963) was an award winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career. During his career as a set designer Willis worked on over 600 separate productions. The Internet Movie Database lists his 577 film credits as set decorator, 163 credits as interior decorator and 24 credits as art director. Edwin B. Willis was nominated for the Academy Award in his profession 32 times, in certain years receiving multiple nominations. Willis won the Oscar on 8 occasions. He died of cancer in Hollywood, in 1963. He was survived by his sister. He never married.
[edit] Major awards
Academy Awards
Interior decoration (Color)
- Blossoms in the Dust - 1941
- The Yearling - 1946
Interior decoration (Black & white)
- Gaslight - 1944
Art direction/Set decoration (Color)
- Little Women - 1949
- An American in Paris - 1951
Art direction/Set decoration (Black & white)
- The Bad and the Beautiful - 1952
- Julius Caesar - 1953
- Somebody Up There Likes Me - 1956
Academy Award Nominations
Interior decoration
- The Great Ziegfeld - 1936
- Romeo and Juliet - 1936
Interior decoration (Black & white)
- When Ladies Meet - 1941
- Random Harvest - 1942
- Madame Curie - 1943
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1945
Interior decoration (Color)
- Thousands Cheer - 1943
- Kismet - 1944
- National Velvet - 1945
Art direction/Set decoration (Black & white)
- Madame Bovary - 1949
- The Red Danube - 1950
- Too Young to Kiss - 1951
- Executive Suite - 1954
- I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1955
- Blackboard Jungle - 1955
Art direction/Set decoration (Color)
- Annie Get Your Gun - 1950
- The Merry Widow - 1952
- Lili - 1953
- Young Bess -1953
- The Story of Three Loves - 1953
- Brigadoon - 1954
- Lust For Life - 1956
Art Direction/Set Decoration
- Les Girls - 1957
- Raintree County - 1957
