Production Designer Robert F. Boyle was born in Los Angeles in 1909, and raised partly in Los Angeles and partly in the town of Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley, on his family’s small ranch. He attended the University of Southern California, where he studied architecture and graduated in 1933.

Like many young architects completing their training at the height of the Depression, Boyle discovered that job opportunities were limited in the architectural field. While acting as a bit player he was referred to the Paramount Art Department, and he started there soon after as a draftsman. ...more

Henry Bumstead designed feature films for more than six decades, beginning in the forties and continuing through 2006 with the films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. For Flags, he received his third ADG Excellence in Production Design nomination.

In his early career, Bummy worked at Paramount under the tutelege of Hall of Fame member Hans Dreier. His early films for the studio were varied and uniformly well-designed. ...more

William Creber’s three Academy Award nominations are for The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965, with Richard Day), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). His other film credits include Planet of the Apes (1968), The Detective (1968), Justine (1969), Islands In The Stream (1977), Flight of the Navigator (1986), Street Fighter (1994), Spy Hard (1996), and Without Limits (1998). ...more

Terence Marsh was born in London, England on November 14, 1931. He first became aware of the magic of movies during World War II, when the only occasional relief from the almost daily bombing raids in the early 1940s was the Cinema. The Technicolor world of Betty Grable, Tyrone Power and all the other glamorous stars made the audience forget the grey world of austerity and anxiety that was part of every day life. ...more

Production designer, art director and illustrator Harold Michelson, one of the icons of the craft and a two-time Academy-Award® nominee, was born in New York in 1920. His first job after graduating high school was with the Bureau of Printing in Washington, D.C. During World War II, as a bombardier-navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he flew more than forty missions over Germany and, following the war, became a magazine illustrator while studying at New York’s Arts Students League. He then worked in Chicago and Los Angeles illustrating movie posters. ...more

For many reasons Patricia Norris is a superior choice for the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement recognition. By celebrating Patricia’s life and career the Guild reaffirms the hopes of every young designer regardless of their background or gender, encouraging them to pursue their dreams and overcome the status quo in the pursuit of their creative aspirations. For these reasons the Guild has elected to recognize Patricia Norris with its highest honor, that of Lifetime Achievement. ...more

Jan Scott was one of America’s most renowned, honored, and respected television Production Designers. The winner of eleven Emmy Awards®, more than any woman in the history of television and more than any other Production Designer, she was nominated twenty-nine times in a career that spanned six decades. ...more

Paul Sylbert was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of a pair of twins, both of whom wanted to become creators of comic strips for daily newspapers. Paul became the cartoonist for the high school newspaper, The Erasmian. ...more

Tony Walton began his professional career in 1957, and there are few designers with as diverse and prolific a career as his. Whether it is his imaginative concept and costume designs for Mary Poppins, or his valentine to the world of the thirties movie musical in The Boy Friend, or his stylistic and Emmy winning interpretation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, all of these productions and so many more have been graced with his love for what we all do as designers.
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