15 Facts About Cedric Gibbons

Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish-American art director for the film industry.

Cedric Gibbons made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s.

Cedric Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist.

Cedric Gibbons was nominated 39 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times, both of which are records.

Cedric Gibbons was born in Brooklyn in 1890 to Irish architect Austin P Gibbons and American Veronica Fitzpatrick Simmons.

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Cedric Gibbons studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1911.

Cedric Gibbons began working in his father's office as a junior draftsman, then in the art department at Edison Studios under Hugo Ballin in New Jersey in 1915.

Cedric Gibbons was drafted and served in the US Navy Reserves during World War I at Pelham Bay in New York.

Cedric Gibbons joined Goldwyn Studios, and began a long career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, when the studio was founded.

Cedric Gibbons was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and designed the Academy Awards statuette in 1928, a trophy for which he himself would be nominated 39 times, winning 11, the last time for Best Art Direction for Somebody Up There Likes Me .

In 1930, Cedric Gibbons married actress Dolores del Rio and co-designed their house with Douglas Honnold in Santa Monica, an intricate Art Deco residence influenced by Rudolf Schindler.

Cedric Gibbons's press marriage announcement stated that he was a native of Ireland.

Cedric Gibbons' set designs, particularly those in such films as Born to Dance and Rosalie, heavily inspired motion picture theater architecture in the late 1930s through 1950s.

Iconic Oscar statuettes that Cedric Gibbons designed, which were first awarded in 1929, are still being presented to winners at Academy Awards ceremonies each year.

Cedric Gibbons was inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in February 2005.