Gordon Hollingshead - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	08-January-1892
Place of Birth	Garfield (Bergen County, New Jersey)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Film Producer, Film Director, Actor
Gordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director. Hollingshead began his career as an assistant director, with his first work being the 1916 film The Shrine Girl, in which he also had an acting role. Through the silent film era, Hollingshead assisted in the direction of thirteen films, and continued as an assistant director until 1934. He produced his first film, Morocco Nights, in 1934. This started him on the path of producing, which would lead to enormous success. From 1934 to 1953, Hollingshead produced 174 films and film shorts. He received sixteen Oscar nominations, and won six Oscars, including for the short film Star in the Night. In 1944, he produced the 16-minute film I Am an American, featured in American theaters as a short feature. The film was created in connection with "I Am an American Day", now called Constitution Day.

Awards by Gordon Hollingshead

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gordon Hollingshead.

1952

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Desert Killer
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	Thar She Blows!

1951

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject	The Seeing Eye

1950

Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel

Honored for : Grandad of Races

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Grandad of Races
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	My Country 'Tis of Thee

1949

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	So You Think You're Not Guilty
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	The Grass Is Always Greener
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	Snow Carnival

1948

Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Cinderella Horse
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	So You Want to Be on the Radio
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	Calgary Stampede

1947

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	So You Want to Be in Pictures

1946

Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel

Honored for : Facing Your Danger

Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Honored for : A Boy and His Dog

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Smart as a Fox
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	A Boy and His Dog
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Facing Your Danger

1945

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject

Honored for : Hitler Lives

Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Honored for : Star in the Night

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Story of a Dog
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	Star in the Night
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject	Hitler Lives

1944

Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Honored for : I Won't Play

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Jammin' the Blues
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	I Won't Play

1943

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel	Cavalcade of Dance
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel	Women at War

1935

Nominations 1935 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture	Captain Blood came in 3rd

1933

Academy Award for Best Assistant Director

(Warner Bros.)

Nominations 1933 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Assistant Director	Warner Bros.

hits counter