The nominees were ...
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson, The Magnificent Brute
- William S. Darling, Lloyds of London
- Richard Day, Dodsworth
- Perry Ferguson, Winterset
- Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis, Romeo and Juliet
- Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis, The Great Ziegfeld
- Anton Grot, Anthony Adverse
Richard Day, Dodsworth.
Day's Oscar was the only one Dodsworth received, which is a bit shocking -- not that Day didn't deserve it, because he did, but because the picture should have won more. He received twenty nominations and won seven times in a fifty-year career that stretched from work as a set decorator for the persnickety Erich von Stroheim in 1919 to the art direction of Tora! Tora! Tora! in 1970, two years before his death. Unlike the much-honored Cedric Gibbons at MGM, Day was not tied down to any one studio, so most of the work credited to him was in fact his own. He did much of his work for Samuel Goldwyn, a producer much obsessed with prestige.
Above: scenes from Dodsworth
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Above: scenes from Dodsworth
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