Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Three Legendary Production Designers to Be Inducted Into ADG Hall of Fame
Legendary production designersRobert Boyle,William DarlingandAlfred Jungewill be inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame at the Guild's 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards ceremony, February 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. "Their creative legacy continues to inspire and challenge all of those who have chosen the art of production design as their profession and it is appropriate that we honor their memory through their induction into the ADG Hall of Fame," saidADG president Thomas A. Walsh. Boyle collaborated several times with Alfred Hitchcock, first as an assistant art director forSaboteur(1942) and later as a full-fledged production designer forNorth by Northwest(1959),The Birds(1963), andMarnie(1964). During the course of his career, Boyle received four Oscar nominations.In 1997 he received the ADG's Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was presented an Honorary Academy Awardin 2007. Darling began his career in early Hollywood designing silent films as William Fox's supervising art director and continued in that role when Fox reorganized his company as Twentieth Century Fox Studios in 1933. He won Academy AwardsforCavalcade (1933), The Song of Bernadette (1943),andAnna and the King of Siam (1946). He received four additional nominations. Junge has been credited with originating the role of supervising art director within the British film industry of the 1930s. In 1939, he worked with Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger onContraband(1940), the first of eight pictures Junge made with them. The last of these wasBlack Narcissus(1947), which earned Junge an Academy Award. He received a second nomination in 1953 forKnights of the Round Table. The Hangover 2 Watch Online Free
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