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E. Preston Ames

Scenographer | * 07/15/1906 († 77, 07/20/1983) | San Mateo (United States of America (USA))
Edgar Preston Ames (June 15, 1906 – July 20, 1983) was a famous Hollywood art director. Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Ames won 2 Oscars (for An American in Paris in 1951 and Gigi in 1958) and was nominated an additional six times. Among the highlights of his career were creating the mystical town of Brigadoon in 1954, recreating the Titanic in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964, mocking up an Airport for the film of the same name in 1970 and reducing Los Angeles to rubble in Earthquake in 1974. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Romance / Love | Drama | Comedies

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Awards & Nominations for E. Preston Ames

Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Production Design 5x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color 3x Academy Award for Best Production Design
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Movies with E. Preston Ames as Crew(49)

Art/Art Direction1978 The Cat from Outer Space
Art/Art Direction1978 A Family Upside Down
Art/Production Design1977 Damnation Alley
Art/Art Direction1976 Woman of the Year
Art/Art Direction1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Art/Art Direction1975 Rooster Cogburn
Art/Art Direction1975 Babe
Art/Art Direction1975 The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Art/Art Direction1974 Earthquake
Art/Production Design1973 Lost Horizon
Art/Art Direction1973 The Don Is Dead
Art/Art Direction1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row
Art/Art Direction1970 Brewster McCloud
Art/Art Direction1970 The Strawberry Statement
Art/Art Direction1970 Airport
Art/Art Direction1968 Live a Little, Love a Little
Art/Art Direction1965 Quick, Before It Melts
Art/Art Direction1964 The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Art/Art Direction1963 It Happened at the World's Fair
Art/Art Direction1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo
Art/Art Direction1962 All Fall Down
Art/Art Direction1961 Wild in the Country
Art/Art Direction1961 The Honeymoon Machine
Art/Art Direction1960 Where the Boys Are
Art/Art Direction1960 Home from the Hill
Art/Art Direction1960 Bells Are Ringing
Art/Art Direction1959 Green Mansions
Art/Art Direction1958 Gigi
Art/Art Direction1957 Designing Woman
Art/Art Direction1956 These Wilder Years
Art/Art Direction1956 Lust for Life
Art/Art Direction1955 Kismet
Art/Art Direction1955 The Cobweb
Art/Art Direction1954 Brigadoon
Art/Art Direction1953 The Band Wagon
Art/Art Direction1953 The Story of Three Loves
Art/Art Direction1952 The Wild North
Art/Art Direction1951 An American in Paris
Art/Art Direction1950 The Outriders
Art/Art Direction1950 Two Weeks with Love
Art/Art Direction1950 Crisis
Art/Art Direction1949 That Midnight Kiss
Art/Art Direction1949 The Doctor and the Girl
Art/Art Direction1948 Three Daring Daughters
Art/Art Direction1948 Big City
Art/Art Direction1946 Lady in the Lake
Art/Art Direction1945 The Hidden Eye
Art/Art Direction1945 She Went to the Races
Art/Art Direction1944 Blonde Fever

Full Name: E. Ames
Born: Sunday, 07/15 1906 (July) in San Mateo (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 07/20 1983 (July) in Los Angeles (aged: 77)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Siblings: Frances Ames
Other names for E. Preston Ames (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Preston Ames"
E. Preston Ames frequently works together with these people:
Cedric Gibbons (20x, Crew)
Edwin B. Willis (20x, Crew)
Sydney Guilaroff (19x, Crew)
William Tuttle (18x, Crew)
George W. Davis (12x, Crew)
Henry Grace (12x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (11x, Crew)
Vincente Minnelli (11x, Crew)
Bess Flowers (8x, Actress)
John Truwe (8x, Crew)
Adrienne Fazan (8x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:580497, Added: 10/13/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024