Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890[1] – July 26, 1960) was an American art director for the film industry.

Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist.

[6] He began working in his father's office as a junior draftsman, then in the art department at Edison Studios under Hugo Ballin in New Jersey in 1915.

[18] He co-designed their house with Douglas Honnold[19] in Santa Monica, an intricate Art Deco residence influenced by Rudolf Schindler.

[23] Gibbons' niece Veronica "Rocky" Balfe was Gary Cooper's wife and briefly an actress known as Sandra Shaw.

[27][28] Despite holding a US birth certificate,[29] Gibbons claimed on census forms that he was born in Ireland and that his family emigrated to the US during his early childhood.

[34] Gibbons' set designs, particularly those in such films as Born to Dance (1936) and Rosalie (1937), heavily inspired motion picture theater architecture in the late 1930s through 1950s.

The style is found in the theaters that were managed by the Skouras brothers, whose designer Carl G. Moeller used the sweeping scroll-like details in his creations.