The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the
Cedric Gibbons holding his first Academy Award for Best Production Design on April 1930. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette that's still in use each year.
William Cameron Menzies
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William Cameron Menzies was an American filmmaker who pioneered the discipline of production design, a job title he invented. His career spanned five decades, during which time he also worked as an ar
Menzies in 1925