Harold Michelson was an American production designer and art director.
11 Facts About Harold Michelson
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Harold Michelson then served as a bombardier-navigator in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, flying more than 40 missions over Germany.
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Harold Michelson ultimately became an illustrator for Columbia Pictures before being traded to Paramount Pictures, where he worked as illustrator and storyboard artist on The Ten Commandments.
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Harold Michelson then worked as a storyboard artist on Ben-Hur for MGM and Spartacus for Universal Pictures.
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Harold Michelson served as art director on several films and began working as production designer with the 1971 Cannes Film Festival Jury Grand Prize-winning film Johnny Got His Gun, and he continued to work as an illustrator and storyboard artist.
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Harold Michelson worked on two films for Mel Brooks, first as production designer on History of the World, Part I and later as art director for Spaceballs.
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Harold Michelson served as a consultant for producer Danny DeVito on films such as Hoffa and Death to Smoochy.
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Harold Michelson shared his first Academy Award nomination for his production designs on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, contributing to the interior and exterior design on the newly refit USS Enterprise.
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Harold Michelson shared a second nomination for his art direction on the 1983 film Terms of Endearment.
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In 1999 Harold Michelson was honored with the Art Directors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2002, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Production Design award from the Hollywood Film Festival.
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Harold Michelson was inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in 2009.