John Hughes (art director) explained

John Hughes
Birth Date:	23 May 1882
Birth Place:	Kansas City, Missouri
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1921–1951

John Hughes (May 23, 1882 – October 2, 1954) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.^[1] He worked on more than 90 films between 1921 and 1951. He was born in Missouri and died in Los Angeles, California.

Selected filmography

• Passion Fruit (1921)
• Youth to Youth (1922)
• June Madness (1922)
• Desire (1923)
• A Boy of Flanders (1924)
• Little Robinson Crusoe (1924)
• A Fool's Awakening (1924)
• The Marriage Whirl (1925)
• The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926)
• The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)
• Weary River (1929)
• The Naughty Flirt (1930)
• Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
• Party Husband (1931)
• The Reckless Hour (1931)
• The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)
• Sherlock Holmes (1932)
• Midnight Alibi (1934)
• Harold Teen (1934)
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
• Kansas City Princess (1934)
• Go Into Your Dance (1935)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• The Dawn Patrol (1938)
• Daughters Courageous (1939)
• No Time for Comedy (1940)
• They Drive by Night (1940)
• Castle on the Hudson (1940)
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
• Hotel Berlin (1945)
• God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
• Escape in the Desert (1945)
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
• Cinderella Jones (1946)
• Night and Day (1946)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
• One Last Fling (1949)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)

Awards

Hughes was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:

• Sergeant York (1941)^[2]
• This Is the Army (1943)^[3]
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Hughes . January 28, 2011 . theoscarsite.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203004149/http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho2/hughes_j.htm . December 3, 2010 . dead .
2. Web site: The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners . August 13, 2011 . oscars.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093733/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/14th-winners.html . July 6, 2011 . live .
3. Web site: The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners . October 4, 2013 . Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014001522/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/16th-winners.html . October 14, 2013 . live.
4. Web site: The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners . August 14, 2011 . oscars.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093748/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th-winners.html . July 6, 2011 . live .