1950Winner
Career Highlight
Sunset Boulevard
Gordon Jennings
Director
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
June 25, 1896
Biography
Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. (1896 – January 11, 1953) was an American special effects artist. He received seven Academy Awards (mainly for Best Special Effects) and was nominated for eight more in the same category. After starting in 1919 in Hollywood as a camera assistant, he worked from 1932 until 1953 on the visual and special effects of more than 180 films. His older brother was cinematographer Devereaux Jennings (1884-1952), who filmed, for instance, Buster Keaton's monumental The General in 1926. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Jennings, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1953Nominee
Career Highlight
The War of the Worlds
1953Nominee
Career Highlight
Shane
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1951Highlight
Career Highlight
A Place in the Sun
1947Highlight
Best Director
Unconquered
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Sunset Boulevard
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