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Perry Ferguson (November 13, 1901 – December 27, 1963) was an American
art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category
Best Art Direction 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 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted fro ...
. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.


Selected filmography

Ferguson was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * '' Winterset'' (1936) * ''
Citizen Kane ''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. ''Citizen Kane'' is frequently cited ...
'' (1941) * '' The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942) * '' The North Star'' (1943) * ''
Casanova Brown ''Casanova Brown'' is a 1944 American comedy romantic film directed by Sam Wood, written by Nunnally Johnson, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. The film had its world premiere in western France after the Allies had liber ...
'' (1944)


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* * 1901 births 1963 deaths American art directors People from Fort Worth, Texas {{US-artdirector-stub