Fred Sersen - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	24-February-1890
Place of Birth	Czechoslovakia (Central Europe)
Nationality	Czechoslovakia, United States of America
Also know as	Ferdinand Sersen, Ferdinand Motodei Sersen, Fred M. Sersen
Profession	Painter
Fred Sersen was a Czechoslovak/American painter and cinema special effects artist working mainly at 20th Century Fox Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s with credits in over 200 movies. He won two Academy Awards for Best Effects, Special Effects, in 1940 for The Rains Came, and in 1944 for Crash Dive. An artificial lake created for the former film was named in his honor.

Awards by Fred Sersen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Fred Sersen.

1948

Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	Deep Waters

1945

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	Captain Eddie

1944

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	Wilson

1943

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	Crash Dive

1942

Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	The Black Swan

1941

Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	A Yank in the R.A.F.

1940

Nominations 1940 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	The Blue Bird

1939

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Honored for : The Rains Came

Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects	The Rains Came

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