'''William Cameron Menzies''' (July_29, 1896 - March_5, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning and versatile Art_director who earned acclaim on silent films and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect. In his long career spanning five decades from 1918 to 1956, he pioneered the role of Production_designer but also worked as a director, producer, and Screenwriter.
He was born in New_Haven,_Connecticut before moving to Los_Angeles,_California. He died of cancer in 1957 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale,_California.
Notable films he worked on include ''The Thief of Bagdad'', ''The_Beloved_Rogue'', ''Gone with the Wind'', ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', ''Foreign_Correspondent'', ''Invaders_from_Mars'', and ''Around the World in Eighty Days''. He is said to have directed the Salvador_Dalí-designed dream sequence in Hitchcock's ''Spellbound''.
===Awards===
His first Oscar was won jointly for the silent films ''The_Dove'' and ''Tempest'' in 1929 at the 1st_Academy_Awards. The following year, he was nominated again (but did not win) for his work on the films ''Alibi'' and ''The_Awakening'' in the 2nd_Academy_Awards and for ''Bulldog_Drummond'' in the 3rd_Academy_Awards (both held in 1930.) He also received an ''honorary'' Academy Award for his work on ''Gone with the Wind'' in 1940. (Honorary awards are plaques only. He did not receive a second Oscar statue.)
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