Oscar 2008: Robert Boyle to Receive Honorary Oscar

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest

Production designer Robert Boyle, 98, a veteran with nearly 100 highly eclectic film credits — ranging from Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) to Portnoy’s Complaint (1972) — will receive an Honorary Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2008, "in recognition of one of cinema’s great careers in art direction."
Boyle, the subject of the 2000 Oscar-nominated documentary short The Man on Lincoln’s Nose, has earned four Academy Award nominations in the art direction category: North by Northwest (1959), Gaily, Gaily (1969), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and The Shootist (1976).
In addition to North by Northwest, he collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on several other projects. [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2007   
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