James Basevi

James Basevi
James Basevi
Born	September 21, 1890; Plymouth, Devon, England
Died	March 27, 1962 (aged 71); Bellflower, California
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1925-1956

James Basevi (born 21 September 1890, Plymouth, Devon, England – d. 27 March 1962, Bellflower, California) was a British-born art director and special effects expert.

After his military service during World War I Basevi emigrated to Canada and later on to the United States. He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films. After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department, helping to create the earthquake scene in San Francisco (1936). He also worked on the storm sequence in John Ford's The Hurricane for 20th Century Fox.

In 1943, he shared an Oscar for art direction with William S. Darling for The Song of Bernadette. He was nominated for Oscars for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), The Gang's All Here (1943) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).

Filmography[]

The Big Parade (1925)
The Circle (1925)
The Tower of Lies (1925)
Soul Mates (1925)
Pretty Ladies (1925)
Confessions of a Queen (1925)
The Devil's Circus (1926)
Dance Madness (1926)
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
The Temptress 1926)
The Mysterious Island (1929)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934) special effects
China Seas (1935) special effects
San Francisco (1936) special effects
Dead End (1937) special effects
History Is Made at Night (1937) special effects
The Good Earth (1937) special effects
The Hurricane (1937) special effects
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) special effects
Blockade (1938) special effects
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
The Real Glory (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
They Shall Have Music (1939)
Raffles (1939)
The Westerner (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Tobacco Road (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Son of Fury (1942)
Moontide (1942)
China Girl (1942)
The Black Swan (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Paris After Dark (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
Claudia (1943)
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
Jitterbugs (1943)
Bomber's Moon (1943)
Wintertime (1943)
Happy Land (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Holy Matrimony (1943)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Jane Eyre (1944)
The Moon is Down (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Home in Indiana (1944)
Greenwich Village (1944)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Wilson (1944)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Casanova Brown (1944)
The Lodger (1944)
The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
Ladies of Washington (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Tampico (1944)
Pin Up Girl (1944)
Bermuda Mystery (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Home, Sweet Homicide (1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
If I'm Lucky (1946)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Claudia and David (1946)
Margie (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
Strange Triangle (1946)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
Thunder in the Valley (1947)
The Homestretch (1947)
The Late George Apley (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Three Godfathers (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
Somewhere in the Night (1948)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
To Please a Lady (1950)
Wagonmaster (1950)
Night Into Morning (1951)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
My Man and I (1952)
Just This Once (1952)
Island in the Sky (1952)
Battle Circus (1953)
East of Eden (1954)
The Searchers (1956)

External links[]

James Basevi at IMDb

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show v t Academy Award for Best Production Design
1927–1939 Interior Decoration	1927/1928: William Cameron Menzies 1929/1929: Cedric Gibbons 1929/1930: Herman Rosse 1930/1931: Max Rée 1931/1932: Gordon Wiles 1932/1933: William S. Darling 1934: Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope 1935: Richard Day 1936: Richard Day 1937: Stephen Goosson 1938: Carl Jules Weyl 1939: Lyle R. Wheeler
1940–1946 Black & White / Color separate	1940 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse / (c): Vincent Korda 1941 (bw): Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis 1942 (bw): Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little / (c): Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little 1943 (bw): James Basevi, William S. Darling, Thomas Little / (c): Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb 1944 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, Edwin B. Willis / (c): Wiard Ihnen, Thomas Little 1945 (bw): Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields / (c): Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté, Samuel M. Comer 1946 (bw): William S. Darling, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis
1947–1956 renamed Art Direction - Set Decoration Black & White / Color separate	1947 (bw): John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton / (c): Alfred Junge 1948 (bw): Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon / (c): Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson 1949 (bw): Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri / (c): Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore 1950 (bw): Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer / (c): Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer 1951 (bw): Richard Day, George James Hopkins / (c): Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason 1952 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason /(c): Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès 1953 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox 1954 (bw): Richard Day / (c): John Meehan, Emile Kuri 1955 (bw): Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams / (c): William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley 1956 (bw): Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
1957–1958	1957: Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley 1958: William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason
1959–1966 Black & White / Color separate	1959 (bw): Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss / (c): William A. Horning (posthumous award), Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt 1960 (bw): Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle /(c): Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom (posthumous award), Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron 1961 (bw): Harry Horner, Gene Callahan / (c): Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin 1962 (bw): Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert /(c): John Box, John Stoll, Dario Simoni 1963 (bw): Gene Callahan / (c): John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard M. Brown, Herman A. Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer 1964 (bw): Vassilis Photopoulos /(c): Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins 1965 (bw): Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish /(c): John Box, Terence Marsh, Dario Simoni 1966 (bw): Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins / (c): Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
1967–1980	1967: John Truscott, Edward Carrere, John W. Brown 1968: John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston 1969: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, Raphaël Bretton 1970: Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thévenet 1971: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon 1972: Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel 1973: Henry Bumstead, James W. Payne 1974: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson 1975: Ken Adam, Roy Walker, Vernon Dixon 1976: George C. Jenkins, George Gaines 1977: John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian 1978: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines 1979: Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary J. Brink 1980: Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
1981–2000	1981: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Michael D. Ford (set) 1982: Stuart Craig, Robert W. Laing; Michael Seirton (set) 1983: Anna Asp 1984: Patrizia von Brandenstein; Karel Černý (set) 1985: Stephen B. Grimes; Josie MacAvin (set) 1986: Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow; Brian Savegar, Elio Altramura (set) 1987: Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri (set) 1988: Stuart Craig; Gérard James (set) 1989: Anton Furst; Peter Young (set) 1990: Richard Sylbert (art); Rick Simpson (set) 1991: Dennis Gassner (art); Nancy Haigh (set) 1992: Luciana Arrighi (art); Ian Whittaker (set) 1993: Allan Starski (art); Ewa Braun (set) 1994: Ken Adam (art); Carolyn Scott (set) 1995: Eugenio Zanetti (art) 1996: Stuart Craig (art); Stephenie McMillan (set) 1997: Peter Lamont (art); Michael D. Ford (set) 1998: Martin Childs (art); Jill Quertier (set) 1999: Rick Heinrichs (art); Peter Young (set) 2000: Timmy Yip (art)
2001–present	2001: Catherine Martin (art); Brigitte Broch (set) 2002: John Myhre (art); Gordon Sim (set) 2003: Grant Major (art); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (set) 2004: Dante Ferretti (art); Francesca Lo Schiavo (set) 2005: John Myhre (art); Gretchen Rau (set; posthumous award) 2006: Eugenio Caballero (art); Pilar Revuelta (set) 2007: Dante Ferretti (art); Francesca Lo Schiavo (set) 2008: Donald Graham Burt (art) and Victor J. Zolfo (set) 2009: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (art), Kim Sinclair (set) 2010: Robert Stromberg (art) and Karen O'Hara (set) 2011: Dante Ferretti (art) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (set) 2012: Rick Carter (art) and Jim Erickson (set) 2013: Catherine Martin (art) and Beverley Dunn (set) 2014: Adam Stockhausen (art) and Anna Pinnock (set) 2015: Colin Gibson (art) and Lisa Thompson (set) 2016: David Wasco (art) and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (set) 2017: Paul Denham Austerberry (art) and Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin (set) 2018: Hannah Beachler (art) and Jay Hart (set) 2019: Barbara Ling (art) and Nancy Haigh (set) 2020: Donald Graham Burt (art) and Jan Pascale (set)

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James Basevi
Born	(1890-09-21)September 21, 1890 Plymouth, Devon, England
Died	March 27, 1962(1962-03-27) (aged 71) Bellflower, California
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1925-1956