E. Preston Ames - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	15-June-1906
Place of Birth	San Mateo (San Mateo County, Silicon Valley, California, San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Edgar Preston Ames, Preston Ames
Profession	Film Art Director, Production Designer
E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director. Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Ames won 2 Oscars and was nominated an additional six times. Among the highlights of his career were creating the mystical town of Brigadoon in 1954, recreating the Titanic in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964, mocking up an airport for the film of the same name in 1970 and reducing Los Angeles to rubble in Earthquake in 1974.

Awards by E. Preston Ames

Check all the awards nominated and won by E. Preston Ames.

1983

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction - Series	Casablanca

1974

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Earthquake

1970

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Airport

1964

Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1958

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Honored for : Gigi

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Gigi

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Lust for Life

1954

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	Brigadoon

1953

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Production Design	The Story of Three Loves

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

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