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How did Irish man Cedric Gibbons go from being an electrician in New York to the second most successful Academy Award winner of all time? The top Academy Award winner of all time should come as no ...

From film producer Walt Disney to art director Cedric Gibbons, and films such as Titanic, Ben-Hur and West Side Story, here ...

George Bernard Shaw earned Ireland's first screenwriting Oscar in 1939 when he was awarded Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion. The prize - which the Dubliner famously referred to as an insult - ...

And it ain't going to suddenly appear now." The trophy's origins are clear. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons sketched the figure of an impressively ripped knight as an art crusader for the first ...