Lyle R. Wheeler - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	02-February-1905
Place of Birth	Woburn (Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Lyle Wheeler, Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, The 'dean of Hollywood art directors'
Profession	Film Art Director, Production Designer, Set Decorator
Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director. Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer. In 1936 he was hired by David O. Selznick to work as a set designer for Selznick's motion picture production company. Wheeler proved to be a creative genius when it came to designing quality sets at reasonable costs and was very much in demand in the industry. By the end of World War II, Wheeler had joined Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, where he remained as chief art director until the end of the 1950s. In a career spanning forty years, Wheeler created sets for more than three hundred and fifty motion pictures, many of which are considered film classics. His credits include A Star is Born, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, State Fair, The Dolly Sisters, Forever Amber, The Fan, The Pride of St. Louis, The Seven Year Itch, and Carousel. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction twenty-nine times, winning five. In 1951, he was nominated for four different films, three in 1952 and twice for two films in one year.

Awards by Lyle R. Wheeler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lyle R. Wheeler.

2007

Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame

1963

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Cardinal

1959

Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

Honored for : The Diary of Anne Frank

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Journey to the Center of the Earth
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Diary of Anne Frank

1958

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	A Certain Smile

1956

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : The King and I

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The King and I
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Teenage Rebel

1955

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Daddy Long Legs

1954

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Désirée

1953

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : The Robe

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Robe
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The President's Lady
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Titanic

1952

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	My Cousin Rachel
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Viva Zapata!

1951

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	On the Riviera
Academy Award for Best Production Design	David and Bathsheba
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Fourteen Hours
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The House on Telegraph Hill

1950

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	All About Eve

1949

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Come to the Stable

1947

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Foxes of Harrow

1946

Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

Honored for : Anna and the King of Siam

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Anna and the King of Siam

1945

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Leave Her to Heaven

1944

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Laura

1940

Nominations 1940 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Rebecca

1939

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : Gone with the Wind

Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Gone with the Wind

1938

Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1937

Nominations 1937 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Prisoner of Zenda

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