Max Rée (7 October 1889 – 7 March 1953) was a Danish architect,

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...

, scene designer, and

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 ...

who worked in both theatre and film. He won an

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

for

Best Art Direction The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted fro ...

for the film '' Cimarron''. He was born in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

, Denmark and died in

Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

Selected filmography

* ''

The Private Life of Helen of Troy ''The Private Life of Helen of Troy'' is a 1927 American silent comedy adventure film about Helen of Troy based on the 1925 novel of the same name by John Erskine, and adapted to screen by Gerald Duffy. The film was directed by Alexander Kord ...

'' (1927) * '' Love and the Devil'' (1929) * ''

The Gay Diplomat ''The Gay Diplomat'' is a 1931 American pre-Code film. Directed by Richard Boleslawski for RKO Radio Pictures, it starred Ivan Lebedeff, Genevieve Tobin and Betty Compson. Plot Captain Orloff is a Russian military officer who is sent to Buchare ...

'' (1931) * ''

White Shoulders ''White Shoulders'' is a lost film, lost 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Melville W. Brown and starring Mary Astor and Jack Holt (actor), Jack Holt, with major supporting roles by Ricardo Cortez and Sidn ...

'' (1931) * '' Cimarron'' (1931) * ''

The Lost Squadron ''The Lost Squadron'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama, action, film starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, and Robert Armstrong, with Erich von Stroheim and Joel McCrea in supporting roles, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the nove' ...

'' (1932) * ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a Comedy (drama), comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One s ...

'' (1935) * ''

Stagecoach A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, ) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by ...

'' (1939)

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* 1889 births 1953 deaths Danish art directors Danish costume designers People from Copenhagen Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Deaths from cancer in California {{artdirector-stub