William Allen Horning Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Allen Horning (November 9, 1904 – March 2, 1959) was an American multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death.At the 31st Academy Awards ceremony for 1958, Horning received a posthumous Academy Award for Best Art Direction for that year's Best Picture winner, Gigi. The following year, he received two additional posthumous Oscar nominations, one for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and another for the 1959 epic film Ben-Hur. At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Horning won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Ben-Hur, that year's Best Picture winner. Like producer Sam Zimbalist, Horning was awarded his second Oscar posthumously, as both he and Zimbalist had died while the movie was still being filmed. To date, Horning is the only individual ever to win posthumous Academy Awards in consecutive ceremonies.
His two Oscar victories were posthumously: he died a month prior to the award in April 1959, when he won for his work in Gigi (1958) and later on he would receive two nominations in the Best Art Direction-Set Decoration category, for his works in North by Northwest (1959) and Ben-Hur (1959), winning for the latter.
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Graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of California. Spent his entire career at MGM, from 1934 until his death in 1959, as right hand man for department head Cedric Gibbons. He was reputed to have immense knowledge on all technical matters.
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Received two posthumous Oscar nominations in the same year - for "North by Northwest" and "Ben-Hur". He won for "Ben-Hur".
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Like producer Sam Zimbalist, he was awarded his Oscar for "Ben-Hur" posthumously. He and Zimbalist both had died while the movie was still being filmed.
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fury River
1961
Mission of Danger
1960
Ben-Hur
1959
The Lawless Years
1959
TV Series 8 episodes
The Beat Generation
1959
North by Northwest
1959
The Thin Man
1957-1959
TV Series 67 episodes
Union Pacific
1958-1959
TV Series 4 episodes
Ask Any Girl
1959
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959
One Step Beyond
1959
TV Series 15 episodes
The Mating Game
1959
Count Your Blessings
1959
Watusi
1959
Green Mansions
1959
Night of the Quarter Moon
1959
Northwest Passage
1958-1959
TV Series 13 episodes
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
Some Came Running
1958
The Tunnel of Love
1958
Party Girl
1958
Torpedo Run
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
The Badlanders
1958
Imitation General
1958
The Law and Jake Wade
1958
High School Confidential!
1958
The High Cost of Loving
1958
Gigi
1958
The Sheepman
1958
Handle with Care
1958
Saddle the Wind
1958
Merry Andrew
1958
The Brothers Karamazov
1958
Don't Go Near the Water
1957
Jailhouse Rock
1957
Until They Sail
1957
Raintree County
1957
Les Girls
1957
The Hired Gun
1957
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957
Man on Fire
1957
Gun Glory
1957
Silk Stockings
1957
The Seventh Sin
1957
Designing Woman
1957
This Could Be the Night
1957
Something of Value
1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
Hot Summer Night
1957
The Wings of Eagles
1957
Slander
1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1956
The Great American Pastime
1956
Tea and Sympathy
1956
The Power and the Prize
1956
Quo Vadis
1951
Conquest
1937
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Wizard of Oz
1939
associate art director
Marie Antoinette
1938
associate art director
Parnell
1937
associate art director
Libeled Lady
1936
associate art director
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
associate art director
Fury
1936
associate art director
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
associate art director
Ah, Wilderness!
1935
associate art director
Whipsaw
1935
associate art director
Here Comes the Band
1935
associate art director
Mad Love
1935
associate art director
The Flame Within
1935
associate art director
Age of Indiscretion
1935
associate art director
Times Square Lady
1935
associate art director
Shadow of Doubt
1935
associate art director
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Wizard of Oz
1939
uncredited
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Ben-Hur (1959)
1959
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color
$1.4 Million
