Boris Leven - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	13-August-1908
Place of Birth	Moscow (Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Moscow Oblast, Europe)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Boris Levin, ×‘×•×¨×™×¡ ×œ×•×•×™×Ÿ
Profession	Production Designer, Film Art Director
Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years. Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from the University of Southern California, he attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City. Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and moved to 20th Century Fox three years later. His first screen credit was as the art director for Alexander's Ragtime Band, which garnered him the first of nine Oscar nominations. The designs Leven created over the years ranged from realistic to highly stylistic. For Giant, he constructed the Victorian home that sits isolated in a wide expanse of open field, which became an iconic image for the film. His work for West Side Story, which won him the Academy Award for Best Color Art Direction, included actual New York City locations combined with a tenement rooftop and fire escape, inspired by the more abstract stage production, that were built on a soundstage. For New York, New York, he created a fantasized version of Manhattan set in the 1940s.

Awards by Boris Leven

Check all the awards nominated and won by Boris Leven.

2004

Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Color of Money

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Andromeda Strain

1968

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Star!

1966

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Sand Pebbles

1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Sound of Music

1961

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : West Side Story

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	West Side Story

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Giant

1942

Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Shanghai Gesture

1938

Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Alexander's Ragtime Band

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