Rudolph Sternad (October 6, 1906 – April 23, 1963) was an American art director and

production designer In film and television, the production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Wo ...

. He was nominated for three

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

in the category Best Art Direction. He was a frequent collaborator of producer-director

Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous " message films" (he would call his movies ''heavy dramas'') and a liberal movie icon.

, working with him on virtually all of the films that Kramer directed, and many famous ones that he only produced, such as ''

High Noon ''High Noon'' is a 1952 American Western (genre), Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, which occurs in Real time (media), real time, center ...

'', ''

Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th c ...

'', and '' The Men''.

Selected filmography

Sternad was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * ''

Judgment at Nuremberg ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' is a 1961 American epic courtroom drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Diet ...

'' (1961) (for which he was actually production designer; no art director was credited) * '' A Thousand and One Nights'' (1945) * '' The Talk of the Town'' (1942) Only one of the nominations (''Judgment at Nuremberg'') was for a Stanley Kramer film.

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* * 1906 births 1963 deaths American art directors {{US-artdirector-stub