Edward Carrere (13 October 1906 – 19 December 1984) born in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...
, first hit
Hollywood in 1947, making his debut as an
art director on ''
My Wild Irish Rose''. He garnered his first
Academy Award
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nomination two years later for the
Errol Flynn epic ''
Adventures of Don Juan''.
Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s he worked on such films as ''
White Heat
''White Heat'' is a 1949 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly and Steve Cochran. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, ''White Heat'' is based on a story by ...
'' (1949), ''
The Fountainhead'' (1949), ''
The Flame and the Arrow'' (1950), ''
Dial M for Murder'' (1954), ''
Sweet Smell of Success'' (1957), ''
Separate Tables'' (1958) and ''
Elmer Gantry
''Elmer Gantry'' is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. The novel's protagonis ...
'' (1960).
His second
Oscar nomination was in 1960 was for the
Roosevelt biopic ''
Sunrise at Campobello''. He won the Academy Award seven years later for his work on ''
Camelot
Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as th ...
''.
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1906 births
1984 deaths
Best Art Direction Academy Award winners
American art directors
Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Mexican emigrants to the United States
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