Gordon Hollingshead was an American film producer, associate producer and assistant director. He holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations in the Best Live Action Short Film category. His films include patriotic subjects.
Gordon Hollingshead was an American film producer, associate producer and assistant director. He holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations in the Best Live Action Short Film category. His films include patriotic subjects.
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Gordon Hollingshead (January 8, 1892, in Garfield, New Jersey – July 8, 1952, in Balboa Island, California) was an American film producer, associate producer and assistant director. He holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations in the Best Live Action Short Film category (20 nominations). His films include patriotic subjects.
Career
Hollingshead began his career as an assistant director, with his first work being the 1916 film The Shrine Girl, in which he also had an acting role. Through the silent film era, Hollingshead assisted in the direction of thirteen films, and continued as an assistant director until 1934. He joined Warner Bros. in 1921, where he remained until his death.
He produced his first film, Morocco Nights, in 1934. This started him on the path of producing, which would lead to enormous success. From 1934 to 1953, Hollingshead produced 174 films and film shorts. He received sixteen Oscar nominations, and won seven Oscars, including for the short film Star in the Night and the documentary short film Hitler Lives (both 1945). In 1944, he produced the 16-minute film I Am an American, featured in American theaters as a short feature. The film was created in connection with I Am an American Day, now called Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. Hollingshead was the cousin of the mother of actress Gene Tierney.
Death
He was residing in Balboa Island, California at the time of his death on July 8, 1952, aged 60. Three of his short films were released posthumously in 1953.
Home video availability
Hollingshead's shorts can also be found as extras on DVDs of classic Warner Bros. films of the period:
The Romance of Robert Burns is on the DVD of Hollywood Hotel
