Van Nest Polglase


Birthday: August 25, 1998

American art director Van Nest Polglase came to films with impeccable credentials as an architect; at twenty, he had already designed such formidable structures as the presidential palace in Havana. In 1919, Polglase signed on as an art director at Paramount. Ten years later, he joined the upstart RKO Radio Pictures, where among his first assignments was the designing of the legendary RKO ...more
  • 1941
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Black and White Art Direction
  • Citizen Kane
  • nom
  • 1940
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Black and White Art Direction
  • My Favorite Wife
  • nom
  • 1939
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Art Direction
  • Love Affair
  • nom
  • 1938
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Art Direction
  • Carefree
  • nom
  • 1935
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Art Direction
  • Top Hat
  • nom
  • 2046
  • Gilda
  • Art Director


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