Robert Clatworthy (December 31, 1911 – March 2, 1992) was an American

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vis ...

. He won an

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and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.

Selected filmography

Clatworthy won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for four more: ;Won * ''

Ship of Fools The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato's ''Republic'', about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert kn ...

'' (1965) ;Nominated * '' Psycho'' (1960) * ''

That Touch of Mink ''That Touch of Mink'' is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, and Audrey Meadows. Plot Cathy Timberlake, an unemployed New York City career woman, goes to the unemploymen ...

'' (1962) * '' Inside Daisy Clover'' (1965) * '' Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'' (1967)

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* * 1911 births 1992 deaths American art directors Best Art Direction Academy Award winners People from Illinois {{US-artdirector-stub