The cinematographer Arthur Miller remembered Anton Grot: "a gifted and talented artist who made beautiful charcoal drawings...of the set before it was completed.

All his compositions showed a full shot of each set, with all the delicate tones and shadings that suggested ideas for lighting and, in general, were of great help to me as a cameraman.

"[4]Grot arrived in Hollywood to assist Wilfred Buckland with the sets for the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood (1922); and stayed on, to work with Cecil B. DeMille and William K.

Beginning with the biblical epic Noah's Ark (1928), these included Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940), and Mildred Pierce (1945).

[4] Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:[5] He received a special Oscar in 1941 for inventing a water ripple and wave-illusion machine, first used in The Sea Hawk (1940).