Awards & Winners

Gile Steele

Date of Birth 24-September-1908
Place of Birth Ohio
(United States of America, Midwestern United States, Northwest Territory, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Costume Designer, Painter
Gile Steele, was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette. He also worked on many of the company's prestige pictures including Pride and Prejudice and Boom Town, Blossoms in the Dust and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Miniver and Madame Curie. He was one of the first nominees when the category for Best Costume Design was introduced at the Academy Awards in 1948 for his work on The Emperor Waltz. He won the Oscar for The Heiress in 1949 and Samson and Delilah in 1950. He died abruptly in 1952 at the age of 43.

Awards by Gile Steele

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gile Steele.

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design The Merry Widow

1951


Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design The Great Caruso
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Kind Lady

1950


Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Honored for : Samson and Delilah

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design Samson and Delilah

1949


Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Honored for : The Heiress

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White The Heiress

1948


Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design The Emperor Waltz