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Cedric Gibbons

1893 - 1960

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Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 – July 26, 1960) was an American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. He was nominated 39 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times, both of which are records. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cedric Gibbons is the 283rd most popular architect (down from 240th in 2019), the 4,133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,056th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Architect.

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Among architects, Cedric Gibbons ranks 283 out of 518. Before him are Salomon de Brosse, Marian Spychalski, Josep Maria Jujol, Kengo Kuma, William Chambers, and Jacques Ignace Hittorff. After him are Bernardo Buontalenti, Werner March, Nicolai Eigtved, Helmut Jahn, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and Steven Holl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Cedric Gibbons ranks 133. Before him are Ben Hecht, Vera Kholodnaya, Bekir Çoban-zade, László Hudec, Jean Acker, and Carlo Emilio Gadda. After him are T. H. Marshall, Vera Brittain, Heinrich George, Dora Carrington, Lucien Tesnière, and Louise Weiss. Among people deceased in 1960, Cedric Gibbons ranks 95. Before him are Johnny Horton, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Massimo Bontempelli, Harold Spencer Jones, Alan Stacey, and Józef Haller. After him are Richard Wright, Sigurd Hoel, H. C. Hansen, Leo Spitzer, Otto Ender, and Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cedric Gibbons ranks 4,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Julie Newmar (1933), Grace Coolidge (1879), Jack Sherman (1956), Howie Dorough (1973), and Mike White (1970). After him are Adam Baldwin (1962), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Theodore Hall (1925), Thomas S. Gates Jr. (1906), Dick Wolf (1946), and Dyanne Thorne (1936).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Cedric Gibbons ranks 16. Before him are Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Adrian Smith (1944), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), and Kevin A. Lynch (1918). After him are Steven Holl (1947), Thom Mayne (1944), Michael Graves (1934), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Charles Jencks (1939), and Daniel Burnham (1846).

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