Arnold schwartzman biography
Arnold Schwartzman
British designer, author and film director
Arnold Martin SchwartzmanOBERDI is a British designer, author, and film director who in won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for his film of the reminiscences of Holocaust survivors titled Genocide.
Early life and family
Arnold Schwartzman was born in east London in [1] His family moved to Margate, Kent when he was nine years old, where his parents ran the Majestic Hotel in Cliftonville. Schwartzman's first job in the movie industry was in Margate, as the assistant projectionist at the Cameo cinema.[2] He studied at Canterbury College of Art, now University for the Creative Arts.[3] He is married to Isolde.[4]
Career
Schwartzman's early career was in British television.[1]
In , he won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for Genocide.[5] His other films are Liberation () and Echoes That Remain ().
Arnold schwartzman biography Arnold Schwartzman was born in east London in Schwartzman's first job in the movie industry was in Margate, as the assistant projectionist at the Cameo cinema. Schwartzman's early career was in British television. He has designed advertisements for the Oscars for several years. In he was appointed the director of design for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.He has designed advertisements for the Oscars for several years.[6]
In he was appointed the director of design for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.[1]
Honours
Schwartzman was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in [1] In he was elected a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).[1] He was made an Honorary Freeman of Margate, his hometown, in September , with his colleague Sir Ben Kingsley attending the ceremony to pay tribute to Schwartzman's career.[2]
Selected publications
- Phono-Graphics: The visual paraphernalia of the talking machine.
Chronicle Books, ISBN
- Designage: The art of the decorative sign. Chronicle Books, ISBN
- A Persistence of Vision: Arnold Schwartzman profiles His Work in Graphic Design and Film. Images Publishing Group, ISBN
- London Art Deco.Liberation With a strong showing by British nominees for this year's Oscars, Hollywood is once again hailing British talent in the film industry. It is a familiar story. Colin Welland famously proclaimed at the Academy Awards ceremony that "the British are coming". London-born Schwartzman grew up in s England with a childhood dream that he would one day work in Hollywood. He started as an assistant projectionist in Margate.
Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, Vermont, ISBN
- Art Deco City: The world's most beautiful buildings. Palazzo Editions, ISBN
- Arts and Crafts: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright. Palazzo Editions, ISBN