Cedric Gibbons & Dolores Del Rio

 

Dolores Del Rio & husband Cedric Gibbons. 

Cedric & Dolores in their living room.

Cedric Gibbons designed the Academy Awards trophy. George Stanley sculpted it. 

Cedric gaze at his Oscar for best art direction in April 1930.

Cedric Gibbons, the father of the golden copper naked man called Oscar.

Cedric designed his Art Deco living room. 

a very special stairway...  

Austin Cedric Gibbons 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.

Cedric Gibbons was born in New York City, on 23rd March 1890, and died on 26 July 1960  to Irish architect Austin P. Gibbons and American Veronica Fitzpatrick Simmons. Cedric studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1911. He began working in his father's office as a junior draftsman, then in the art department at Edison Studios under Hugo Ballin in New Jersey in 1915. He was drafted and served in the US Navy Reserves during World War I at Pelham Bay in New York.