Gordon Jennings
Gordon Jennings | |
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Born | Henry Gordon Jennings 1896 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
Died | January 11, 1953 (aged 56–57) Hollywood, California, United States |
Occupation | Special effects artist |
Years active | 1919–1953 |
Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. (1896 – January 11, 1953) was an American special effects artist. He received seven Academy Awards (mainly for Best Special Effects) and was nominated for eight more in the same category. After starting 1919 in Hollywood as camera assistant he worked from 1932 until 1953 on the visual and special effects of more than 180 films. His older brother was cinematographer Devereaux Jennings (1884-1952), who filmed, for instance, Buster Keaton's monumental The General in 1926.
Awards and nominations
Jennings received seven Academy Awards (mainly for "Best Special Effects") and was nominated for eight more. In 1942, he beat himself winning the Academy Award for his work in 1941 on I Wanted Wings with Farciot Edouart against his second nomination for Aloma of the South Seas with Louis Mesenkop. In 1952, he was decorated twice for When Worlds Collide and with an "Award for Technical Achievement". His last receipt of an Academy Award was posthumous, when The War of the Worlds was decorated during the 1954 ceremony.
Won or decorated
- 1938: Spawn of the North, Academy Honorary Award "for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North"[1]
- 1941: I Wanted Wings[2]
- 1942: Reap the Wild Wind[3]
- 1944: Scientific or Technical Award (Class III) "for the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod"[1]
- 1951: When Worlds Collide, Category "Special Effects", not competitively but as Special Achievement Academy Award
- 1951: Scientific or Technical Award (Class II) "for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device"[1]
- 1953: The War of the Worlds, Category "Special Effects", not competitively but as Special Achievement Academy Award (posthumous)
Nominated
- 1939: Union Pacific[4]
- 1940: Typhoon[5]
- 1940: Dr. Cyclops[5]
- 1941: Aloma of the South Seas[2]
- 1943: So Proudly We Hail![6]
- 1944: The Story of Dr. Wassell[7]
- 1947: Unconquered[1]
- 1950: Samson and Delilah
Filmography
- The Island of Doctor Moreau (1933)
- Peter Ibbetson (1935)
- The Plainsman (1936)
- If I Were King (1938)
- I Married a Witch (1942)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Lady in the Dark (1944)
- Rainbow Island (1944)
- Here Come the Waves (1944)
- Love Letters (1945)
- Kitty (1945)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
- Golden Earrings (1947)
- Wild Harvest (1947)
- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
- The Big Clock (1948)
- Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
- Bride of Vengeance (1949)
- Song of Surrender (1949)
- Rope of Sand (1949)
- The Furies (1950)
- When Worlds Collide (1951)
- The Turning Point (1952)
- Thunder in the East (1952)
- Anything Can Happen (1952)
- Son of Paleface (1952)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- The War of the Worlds (1953)
- Botany Bay (1953)
- The Stooge (1953)
- Shane (1953)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- The Eternal Woman (1954)
References
- ^ a b c d "Database of the Academy Awards". oscars.org. Retrieved January 31, 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ^ "The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- ^ "The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
- ^ a b "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- ^ "The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
External links
- Gordon Jennings at IMDb
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- Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
- Walt Disney (1932)
- Shirley Temple (1934)
- D. W. Griffith (1935)
- The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
- Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
- J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel)/ Technicolor Company (1939)
- Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
- Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
- Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
- George Pal (1943)
- Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
- Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
- Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
- James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
- Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
- Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
- Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
- Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
- Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
- 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
- Eddie Cantor (1956)
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
- Maurice Chevalier (1958)
- Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
- Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
- William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
- William J. Tuttle (1964)
- Bob Hope (1965)
- Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
- Arthur Freed (1967)
- John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
- Cary Grant (1969)
- Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
- Charlie Chaplin (1971)
- Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
- Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
- Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
- Mary Pickford (1975)
- Margaret Booth (1977)
- Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
- Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
- Henry Fonda (1980)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
- Mickey Rooney (1982)
- Hal Roach (1983)
- James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
- Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
- Ralph Bellamy (1986)
- Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
- Akira Kurosawa (1989)
- Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
- Satyajit Ray (1991)
- Federico Fellini (1992)
- Deborah Kerr (1993)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
- Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
- Michael Kidd (1996)
- Stanley Donen (1997)
- Elia Kazan (1998)
- Andrzej Wajda (1999)
- Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)
- Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
- Peter O'Toole (2002)
- Blake Edwards (2003)
- Sidney Lumet (2004)
- Robert Altman (2005)
- Ennio Morricone (2006)
- Robert F. Boyle (2007)
- Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
- Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
- James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
- D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
- Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
- Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
- Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
- Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
- Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
- Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
- David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
- Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
- Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
- Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)