Albert S. D'Agostino (December 27, 1892 – March 14, 1970) was an American

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

. He was nominated for five

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in the category

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. He worked on 339 films between 1921 and 1959. He was born in

New York City, New York New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harb ...

and died in

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Selected filmography

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Princess O'Hara ''Princess O'Hara'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by David Burton and starring Jean Parker, Chester Morris and Leon Errol. The story was adapted for the 1943 Abbott and Costello film '' It Ain't Hay''.Furmanek Plot Cast * Jean Park ...

'' (1935) D'Agostino was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction: * '' The Magnificent Brute'' (1936) * ''

The Magnificent Ambersons ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his ''Growth'' trilogy after '' The Turmoil'' (1915) and before ''The Midlander'' (1923, retitled ''National Avenue'' in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fict ...

'' (1942) * ''

Flight for Freedom ''Flight for Freedom'' (also known as ''Stand to Die'') is a 1943 American drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray and Herbert Marshall. Film historians and Earhart scholars consider ''Flight for Freedom ...

'' (1943) * '' Step Lively'' (1944) * ''

Experiment Perilous ''Experiment Perilous'' is a 1944 American melodrama film set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a 1943 novel of the same name by Margaret Seymour Carpenter, Margaret Carpenter, and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Ago ...

'' (1944)

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* 1892 births 1970 deaths American art directors Artists from New York City {{US-artdirector-stub