Art Direction
|
Year
|
Name
|
Film
|
Status
|
Milestone / Notes
|
1927/28 |
Rochus Gliese |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
Nominated |
|
1928/29 |
Hans Dreier |
The Patriot |
Nominated |
No official nominees were announced that year.
|
1929 |
The Love Parade |
Nominated |
|
1930 |
The Vagabond King |
Nominated |
|
Morocco |
Nominated |
|
1932 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Nominated |
Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson.
|
1937 |
Souls at Sea |
Nominated
|
1938 |
Carl Jules Weyl |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Won |
|
Hans Dreier |
If I Were King |
Nominated |
Shared with the American-born John B. Goodman.
|
1939 |
Beau Geste |
Nominated |
Shared with the American-born Robert Odell.
|
1940 |
Arise, My Love |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher.
|
North West Mounted Police |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson.
|
1941 |
Hold Back the Dawn |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher, and Samuel M. Comer.
|
1942 |
Reap the Wild Wind |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, and George Sawley.
|
Take a Letter, Darling |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, and Samuel M. Comer.
|
1943 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Haldane Douglas, and Bertram C. Granger.
|
Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté |
Five Graves to Cairo |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Bertram C. Granger.
|
Carl Jules Weyl |
Mission to Moscow |
Nominated
|
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born George James Hopkins.
|
1944 |
Paul Huldschinsky |
Gaslight |
Won |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the Irish-American Cedric Gibbons, and American-born William Ferrari and Edwin B. Willis.
|
Walter Holscher |
Address Unknown |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Holscher was a German-born American art director. Shared with the American-born Lionel Banks, and Joseph Kish.
|
Ernst Fegté |
The Princess and the Pirate |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Howard Bristol.
|
Hans Dreier |
Lady in the Dark |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Raoul Pene Du Bois, and Ray Moyer.
|
No Time for Love |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Robert Usher, and Samuel M. Comer.
|
1945 |
Love Letters |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
|
Hans Dreier Ernst Fegté |
Frenchman's Creek |
Won |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Samuel M. Comer.
|
1946 |
Hans Dreier |
Kitty |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. Shared with the American-born Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
|
1947 |
Alfred Junge |
Black Narcissus |
Won |
Nominated in the color category.
|
1948 |
Hein Heckroth |
The Red Shoes |
Won
|
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the British-born Arthur Lawson.
|
1950 |
Hans Dreier |
Sunset Boulevard |
Won |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. First person to win both art direction categories in the same year. Shared with the American-born John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
|
Samson and Delilah |
Won |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, and Ray Moyer.
|
Ernst Fegté |
Destination Moon |
Nominated
|
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born George Sawley.
|
1951 |
Hein Heckroth |
The Tales of Hoffmann |
Nominated
|
Nominated in the color category.
|
1953 |
Alfred Junge |
Knights of the Round Table |
Nominated
|
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the British-born Hans Peters, and John Jarvis.
|
Paul Markwitz Fritz Maurischat |
Martin Luther |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category.
|
1954 |
Max Ophüls |
Le Plaisir |
Nominated |
Nominated in the black-and-white category. First person to receive nominations for writing and art direction.
|
1957 |
Walter Holscher |
Pal Joey |
Nominated |
Shared with the American-born William Kiernan, and Louis Diage.
|
1959 |
Franz Bachelin |
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Nominated |
Nominated in the color category. Shared with the American-born Lyle R. Wheeler, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, and Joseph Kish.
|
1968 |
Harry Lange |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Nominated |
Lange was a German-born British. Shared with the British-born Anthony Masters, and Ernest Archer.
|
1972 |
Hans Jürgen Kiebach Herbert Strabel Rolf Zehetbauer |
Cabaret |
Won |
|
1980 |
Harry Lange |
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
Nominated |
Shared with the British-born Norman Reynolds, Michael D. Ford, and Alan Tomkins, and Welsh-born Leslie Dilley.
|
1981 |
Patrizia von Brandenstein |
Ragtime |
Nominated |
of German-Russian descent.
|
1984 |
Amadeus |
Won
|
1985 |
J. Michael Riva |
The Color Purple |
Nominated |
The grandson of German actress Marlene Dietrich.
|
1987 |
Patrizia von Brandenstein |
The Untouchables |
Nominated |
of German-Russian descent.
|
1996
|
Brigitte Broch |
Romeo + Juliet |
Nominated |
Broch is a German-born Mexican production designer. Shared with the Australian-born Catherine Martin.
|
2001
|
Moulin Rouge! |
Won
|
2015 |
Bernhard Henrich |
Bridge of Spies |
Nominated |
Shared with the American-born Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo.
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