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Boris Leven (in early movies – ''Boris Levin''; August 13, 1908 – October 11, 1986) was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years. Born in Moscow in the family of Israel Levin and Zinaida Narkirier.〔(Boris Leven Biography )〕 Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from the University of Southern California, he attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City.〔(FilmReference.com )〕 Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and moved to 20th Century Fox three years later. His first screen credit was as the art director for ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' (1938), which garnered him the first of nine Oscar nominations. The designs Leven created over the years ranged from realistic to highly stylistic. For ''Giant'' (1956), he constructed the Victorian home that sits isolated in a wide expanse of open field, which became an iconic image for the film. His work for ''West Side Story'' (1961), which won him the Academy Award for Best Color Art Direction, included actual New York City locations combined with a tenement rooftop and fire escape, inspired by the more abstract stage production, that were built on a soundstage. For ''New York, New York'' (1977), he created a fantasized version of Manhattan set in the 1940s. As an art director, Leven contributed to ''The Flying Deuces'' (1939), ''Hello Frisco, Hello'' (1943), ''Invaders from Mars'' (1953), ''The Silver Chalice'' (1954), and ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' (1973), among others. His credits as production designer include ''Donovan's Brain'' (1953), ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959), ''Two for the Seesaw'' (1962), ''The Sand Pebbles'' (1966), ''The Sound of Music'' (1965), ''Star!'' (1968), ''The Andromeda Strain'' (1971), ''Mandingo'' (1975), ''The Last Waltz'' (1978), ''The King of Comedy'' (1982), ''Fletch'' (1985) and ''The Color of Money'' (1986). Leven wed Vera Glooshkoff on February 8, 1946. He died in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Leven died at the age of 101 in June 2011. Prior to her death she had passed several of Boris Leven's paintings and film drawings to the University of Southern California and New York's MOMA. ==See also== * Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boris Leven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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