Gibbons, Cedric

Gibbons, Cedric

(1893–1960) movie art director; born in Dublin, Ireland (husband of Dolores Del Rio). The most celebrated and influential art director in the history of Hollywood, he worked for Edison (1915–17), Goldwyn (1918–23), and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (from 1924). He designed the Academy Award statuette and won it 11 times, from The Merry Widow (1934) to Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956).