Edward Carrere

{{Short description|Art director (1906–1984)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Edward Carrere | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1906|10|13}} | birth_place = [[Mexico]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1984|12|19|1906|10|13}} | death_place = [[Mission Viejo, California]] | other_names = Ed Carrere | occupation = [[Art director]] | years_active = 1947–1970 }} '''Edward Carrere''' (13 October 1906 – 19 December 1984) born in [[Mexico]], first hit [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] in 1947, making his debut as an [[art director]] on ''[[My Wild Irish Rose]]''. He garnered his first [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] [[nomination]] two years later for the [[Errol Flynn]] epic ''[[Adventures of Don Juan]]''.

Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s he worked on such films as ''[[White Heat]]'' (1949), ''[[The Fountainhead (film)|The Fountainhead]]'' (1949), ''[[The Flame and the Arrow]]'' (1950), ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'' (1954), ''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]'' (1957), ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]'' (1958) and ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' (1960).

His second [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nomination was in 1960 was for the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] [[biopic]] ''[[Sunrise at Campobello]]''. He won the Academy Award seven years later for his work on ''[[Camelot (film)|Camelot]]''.<ref name="Oscars1968">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1968 |title=The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-10 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103005223/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1968 |archive-date=2014-11-03 }}</ref>

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