Richard Day (art director)

Richard Day
Born	(1896-05-09)9 May 1896 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Died	23 May 1972(1972-05-23) (aged 76) Hollywood, California
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1923-1970

Richard Day (9 May 1896 – 23 May 1972) was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction ^[1] He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970.

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and died in Hollywood, California.

Academy Awards

Won

Day won seven Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:^[2]

The Dark Angel (1935)
Dodsworth (1936)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
This Above All (1942)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
On the Waterfront (1954)

Nominated

He was nominated in the same category for a further 13 films:

Whoopee! (1931)
Arrowsmith (1931)
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Dead End (1937)
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Lillian Russell (1940)
Blood and Sand (1941)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

References

↑ "IMDb.com: Richard Day - Awards". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
↑ Kehr, Dave. "NY Times: Richard Day biography". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.

External links

Richard Day at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 22348373 LCCN: n85262656 ISNI: 0000 0001 1606 2802 GND: 139527117 BNF: cb14091309r (data)

Academy Award for Production Design (1927–1940)

1927–1939 Interior Decoration	1927/1928: William Cameron Menzies 1929/1929: Cedric Gibbons 1929/1930: Herman Rosse 1930/1931: Max Rée 1931/1932: Gordon Wiles 1932/1933: William S. Darling 1934: Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope 1935: Richard Day 1936: Richard Day 1937: Stephen Goosson 1938: Carl Jules Weyl 1939: Lyle R. Wheeler

1940 Black & White / Color separate	1940 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse / (c): Vincent Korda

Complete list (1927–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

Academy Award for Production Design (1941–1960)

1941–1946 Black & White / Color separate	1941 (bw): Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran, Thomas Little / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis 1942 (bw): Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little / (c): Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little 1943 (bw): James Basevi, William S. Darling, Thomas Little / (c): Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb 1944 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, Edwin B. Willis / (c): Wiard Ihnen, Thomas Little 1945 (bw): Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields / (c): Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté, Samuel M. Comer 1946 (bw): William S. Darling, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis

1947–1958 renamed Art Direction - Set Decoration Black & White / Color separate	1947 (bw): John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton / (c): Alfred Junge 1948 (bw): Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon / (c): Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson 1949 (bw): Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore 1950 (bw): Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer / (c): Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer 1951 (bw): Richard Day, George James Hopkins / (c): Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason 1952 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason /(c): Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès 1953 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox 1954 (bw): Richard Day / (c): John Meehan, Emile Kuri 1955 (bw): Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams / (c): William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley 1956 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox

1957–1958	1957: Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley 1958: William A. Horning (posthumous award), E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason

1959–1960 Black & White / Color separate	1959 (bw): Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss / (c): William A. Horning (posthumous award), Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt 1960 (bw): Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle /(c): Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom (posthumous award), Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron

Complete list (1927–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

Richard Day (art director)

Academy Awards

Won

Nominated

See also

References

External links