He received the first of 17 Academy Award nominations in 1951 for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White for All About Eve, also directed by Mankiewicz.
In 1959 he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the studio's supervising art director following the death of William A. Horning, with Hans Peters as his assistant.
[2] He won his second Academy Award in 1960 for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White for The Diary of Anne Frank which was made during his time at Fox.
At the Academy Awards in 1963, he was nominated for three films - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Mutiny on the Bounty and Period of Adjustment.
Other notable films include Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955), Funny Face (1957), Cimarron (1960), How the West Was Won (1963), Twilight of Honor (1963), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), A Patch of Blue (1965), Mr. Buddwing (1966).