Awards & Winners

Gene Callahan

Date of Birth 07-November-1923
Place of Birth Louisiana
(United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Eugene Callahan, Gene Callaghan, Eugene F. Callahan, Mother
Profession Set Decorator, Production Designer, Film Art Director, Actor
Gene Callahan was an American art director as well as set and production designer who contributed to over fifty films and more than a thousand TV episodes. He received nominations for the British Academy Film Award and four Oscars, including two wins. A native of Louisiana, Eugene F. Callahan had a lifelong association with the state. He kept a home in the capital, Baton Rouge, where he began his designing career in the 1940s as a student at Louisiana State University, and his penultimate film assignment was as production designer on Steel Magnolias, lensed in Natchitoches in 1989. Callahan was a prolific contributor to early television, starting with the first full-schedule broadcast season in 1948–49. He worked on numerous live shows during TV's Golden Age and continued with filmed episodes through the late 1950s and early 60s. His first film as set decorator was 1959's The Fugitive Kind, and his fourth assignment, 1961's black-and-white The Hustler brought him his first Academy Award. 1964 was a banner year for him with two Oscar nominations—The Cardinal in the color category and America, America in the category for black-and-white films, with the latter winning him his second Oscar. Unlike the 1962 win for The Hustler, which he shared with production designer Harry Horner or his shared nomination for The Cardinal with production designer Lyle Wheeler, the award for America, America, was his alone. Elia Kazan's acclaimed epic set in turn-of-the-century Greece and Turkey was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, but it was Callahan's epic production values that won the film's only Oscar.

Awards by Gene Callahan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gene Callahan.

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Production Design Julia

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design The Last Tycoon

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievements In Entertainment Xerox Specials
A Carol for Another Christmas","Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Art Directors and Set Decorators

1963


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

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design The Cardinal
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White America America

1961


Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
Honored for : The Hustler

Nominations 1961 »

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