Edwin B. Willis - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	28-January-1893
Place of Birth	Decatur (Macon County, Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Edwin Willis, Edwin Booth Willis
Profession	Set Decorator, Set Designer, Film Art Director
Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for his entire career. During his career as a set designer Willis worked on over 600 separate productions. The Internet Movie Database lists his 577 film credits as set decorator, 163 credits as interior decorator and 24 credits as art director. Edwin B. Willis was nominated for the Academy Award in his profession 32 times, in certain years receiving multiple nominations. Willis won the Oscar on eight occasions. He was born in Decatur, Illinois and died of cancer in Hollywood, in 1963. He was survived by his sister, Verna B. Willis, Film Editor for MGM Studios, and niece, Ouida L. Burchfield, hat designer, and designer of Christmas decor sold nationally.

Awards by Edwin B. Willis

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edwin B. Willis.

1957

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Les Girls
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Raintree County

1956

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

Honored for : Somebody Up There Likes Me

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Lust for Life
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Somebody Up There Likes Me

1955

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Blackboard Jungle
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	I'll Cry Tomorrow

1954

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Brigadoon
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Executive Suite

1953

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

Honored for : Julius Caesar

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Young Bess
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Story of Three Loves
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Lili
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Julius Caesar

1952

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

Honored for : The Bad and the Beautiful

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Merry Widow
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Bad and the Beautiful

1951

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : An American in Paris

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	An American in Paris
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Too Young to Kiss

1950

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Annie Get Your Gun
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Red Danube

1949

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : Little Women

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Madame Bovary
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Little Women

1946

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : The Yearling

Nominations 1946 »

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

1945

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	National Velvet
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	The Picture of Dorian Gray

1944

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

Honored for : Gaslight

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Kismet
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Gaslight

1943

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Thousands Cheer
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	Madame Curie

1942

Nominations 1942 »

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

1941

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : Blossoms in the Dust

Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Blossoms in the Dust
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White	When Ladies Meet

1936

Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Great Ziegfeld
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Romeo and Juliet

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