Claude E. Carpenter (September 26, 1904 – February 18, 1976) was an American

set decorator The set decorator is the head of the set decoration department in the film and television industry, responsible for selecting, designing, fabricating, and sourcing the " set dressing" elements of each set in a Feature Film, Television, or New Med ...

. He was nominated for three

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ...

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 ...

Life

Carpenter began his career as a production designer in Hollywood in 1938 in the adventure film ''Gunga'' Din, directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant , Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen. He worked on the set design of over sixty films until 1968. At the 1945 Academy Awards, he was nominated for the first time for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a

Black-and-White Film Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, a ...

, together with Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark and Darrell Silvera for the musical film ''Step Lively'' (1944) by Tim Whelan with Frank Sinatra, George Murphy and Adolphe Menjou. Carpenter received his next Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in a Black and White Film, again together with Albert S. D'Agostino, Darrell Silvera and Jack Okey, in 1946 for ''Experiment in Terror'' (1944), a film by Jacques Tourneur starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent and Paul Lukas. Carpenter received his third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Production Design in a Black-and-White Motion Picture, along with Lyle R. Wheeler , Leland Fuller , and Thomas Little, at the 1953 Academy Awards for ''Viva Zapata!'' (1952), directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata , and Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn in other leading roles.

Selected filmography

Carpenter was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * '' Step Lively'' (1944) * ''

Experiment Perilous ''Experiment Perilous'' is a 1944 American melodrama film set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a 1943 novel of the same name by Margaret Seymour Carpenter, Margaret Carpenter, and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Ago ...

'' (1944) * ''

Viva Zapata! ''Viva Zapata!'' is a 1952 American biographical Western film directed by Elia Kazan, dramatizing the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing through his rise to power in the early 1900s and his death in 1919. I ...

'' (1952)

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* 1904 births 1976 deaths American set decorators People from Kane County, Utah {{US-setdecorator-stub