Russian art director
Boris Leven
Born (1908-08-13 ) 13 August 1908Moscow, Russian Empire
Died 11 October 1986(1986-10-11) (aged 78)Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s) Art director, production designer Years active 1938−1986
Boris Leven was the production designer of West Side Story Victor A. Gangelin won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction – Set Decoration (Color) for the film. Boris Leven (in early film credits – Boris Levin ; August 13, 1908 – October 11, 1986) was a Russian -born Academy Award -winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.
Born in Moscow in the family of Israel Levin and Zinaida Narkirier,[ 1] United States in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from the University of Southern California , he attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City .[ 2]
A film crew at work on the set of Giant Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and joined 20th Century Fox three years later. His first screen credit was as the art director for Alexander's Ragtime Band
The designs Leven created ranged from realistic to highly stylised. For Giant West Side Story Academy Award for Best Color Art Direction , included actual New York City locations combined with a tenement rooftop and fire escape , inspired by the more abstract stage production, that were built on a soundstage . For New York, New York fantasized version of Manhattan set in the 1940s.
As an art director, Leven contributed to The Flying Deuces Hello Frisco, Hello Invaders from Mars The Silver Chalice Jonathan Livingston Seagull Donovan's Brain Anatomy of a Murder Two for the Seesaw The Sand Pebbles The Sound of Music Star! The Andromeda Strain Mandingo The Last Waltz The King of Comedy Fletch The Color of Money [ 3]
Leven married Vera Glooshkoff on February 8, 1946. He died in Los Angeles, California . Vera Leven died at the age of 101 in June 2011. Prior to her death, she had donated several of Boris Leven's paintings and film drawings to the University of Southern California and New York City's Museum of Modern Art .
1927–1939 1940–1946 1940 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse / (c): Vincent Korda 1941 (bw): Richard Day , Nathan Juran , Thomas Little / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Urie McCleary , Edwin B. Willis 1942 (bw): Richard Day , Joseph C. Wright , Thomas Little / (c): Richard Day , Joseph C. Wright , Thomas Little 1943 (bw): James Basevi , William S. Darling , Thomas Little / (c): Alexander Golitzen , John B. Goodman , Russell A. Gausman , Ira S. Webb 1944 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , William Ferrari , Paul Huldschinsky , Edwin B. Willis / (c): Wiard Ihnen , Thomas Little 1945 (bw): Wiard Ihnen , A. Roland Fields / (c): Hans Dreier , Ernst Fegté , Samuel M. Comer 1946 (bw): William S. Darling , Lyle R. Wheeler , Thomas Little , Frank E. Hughes / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse , Edwin B. Willis 1947–1956 renamed 1947 (bw): John Bryan , Wilfred Shingleton / (c): Alfred Junge 1948 (bw): Roger K. Furse , Carmen Dillon / (c): Hein Heckroth , Arthur Lawson 1949 (bw): Harry Horner , John Meehan , Emile Kuri / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse , Edwin B. Willis , Jack D. Moore 1950 (bw): Hans Dreier , John Meehan , Samuel M. Comer , Ray Moyer / (c): Hans Dreier , Walter Tyler , Samuel M. Comer , Ray Moyer 1951 (bw): Richard Day , George James Hopkins / (c): Cedric Gibbons , E. Preston Ames , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason 1952 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Edward Carfagno , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason /(c): Paul Sheriff , Marcel Vertès 1953 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Edward Carfagno , Edwin B. Willis , Hugh Hunt / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler , George Davis , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox 1954 (bw): Richard Day / (c): John Meehan , Emile Kuri 1955 (bw): Hal Pereira , Tambi Larsen , Samuel M. Comer , Arthur Krams / (c): William Flannery , Jo Mielziner , Robert Priestley 1956 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Malcolm F. Brown , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler , John DeCuir , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox 1957–1958 1959–1966 1959 (bw): Lyle R. Wheeler , George Davis , Walter M. Scott , Stuart A. Reiss / (c): William A. Horning (posthumous award ), Edward Carfagno , Hugh Hunt 1960 (bw): Alexandre Trauner , Edward G. Boyle /(c): Alexander Golitzen , Eric Orbom (posthumous award ), Russell A. Gausman , Julia Heron 1961 (bw): Harry Horner , Gene Callahan / (c): Boris Leven , Victor A. Gangelin 1962 (bw): Alexander Golitzen , Henry Bumstead , Oliver Emert /(c): John Box , John Stoll , Dario Simoni 1963 (bw): Gene Callahan / (c): John DeCuir , Jack Martin Smith , Hilyard M. Brown , Herman A. Blumenthal , Elven Webb , Maurice Pelling , Boris Juraga , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox , Ray Moyer 1964 (bw): Vassilis Photopoulos /(c): Gene Allen , Cecil Beaton , George James Hopkins 1965 (bw): Robert Clatworthy , Joseph Kish /(c): John Box , Terence Marsh , Dario Simoni 1966 (bw): Richard Sylbert , George James Hopkins / (c): Jack Martin Smith , Dale Hennesy , Walter M. Scott , Stuart A. Reiss 1967–1980 1967: John Truscott , Edward Carrere , John W. Brown 1968: John Box , Terence Marsh , Vernon Dixon , Ken Muggleston 1969: John DeCuir , Jack Martin Smith , Herman A. Blumenthal , Walter M. Scott , George James Hopkins , Raphaël Bretton 1970: Urie McCleary , Gil Parrondo , Antonio Mateos , Pierre-Louis Thévenet 1971: John Box , Ernest Archer , Jack Maxsted , Gil Parrondo , Vernon Dixon 1972: Rolf Zehetbauer , Jurgen Kiebach , Herbert Strabel 1973: Henry Bumstead , James W. Payne 1974: Dean Tavoularis , Angelo P. Graham , George R. Nelson 1975: Ken Adam , Roy Walker , Vernon Dixon 1976: George C. Jenkins , George Gaines 1977: John Barry , Norman Reynolds , Leslie Dilley , Roger Christian 1978: Paul Sylbert , Edwin O'Donovan , George Gaines 1979: Philip Rosenberg , Tony Walton , Edward Stewart , Gary J. Brink 1980: Pierre Guffroy , Jack Stephens 1981–2000 2001–present
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