• Source: Edwin B. Willis

Edwin Booth Willis (January 28, 1893 – November 26, 1963) was an American motion picture set designer and decorator.
Willis worked exclusively at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 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.
He was nominated for the Academy Award in his profession 32 times, in certain years receiving multiple nominations. Willis won the Oscar on eight occasions. He was born in Decatur, Illinois and died of cancer in Hollywood, in 1963.




Personal life


Willis was romantically linked to Sydney Guilaroff, who was known as the first single man to adopt children in America (two sons named Jon and Eugene).




Major awards






= Academy Awards

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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

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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




References






External links


Edwin B. Willis at IMDb
Edwin B. Willis at Find a Grave

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Academy Award untuk Desain Produksi Terbaik
• Pilar Revuelta
• Lisa Thompson (dekorator latar)
• William A. Horning
• Hugh Hunt
• Stuart A. Reiss
• Jack Stephens (dekorator set)
• Adam Stockhausen
• Edward Carfagno
• Brian Ackland-Snow
• Edwin B. Willis
• Edwin Willis
• Cecil Beaton
• Catherine Martin (designer)
• Academy Award for Best Production Design
• Tony Walton
• Alan Lee (illustrator)
• Cedric Gibbons
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film)
• Madame Bovary (1949 film)