page_title: Gordon Jennings
section_title: Awards and nominations
hierarchical_section_title: Gordon Jennings / Awards and nominations
caption_attribution_description: English: The War of the Worlds - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. was an American special effects artist. He received seven Academy Awards and was nominated for eight more in the same category. After starting 1919 in Hollywood as camera assistant he worked from 1932 until 1953 on the visual and special effects of more than 180 films. His older brother was cinematographer Devereaux Jennings, who filmed, for instance, Buster Keaton's monumental The General in 1926.
context_section_description: Jennings received seven Academy Awards (mainly for "Best Special Effects") and was nominated for eight more. In 1942, he beat himself winning the Academy Award for his work in 1941 on I Wanted Wings with Farciot Edouart against his second nomination for Aloma of the South Seas with Louis Mesenkop. In 1952, he was decorated twice for When Worlds Collide and with an "Award for Technical Achievement". His last receipt of an Academy Award was posthumous, when The War of the Worlds was decorated during the 1954 ceremony.
  Won or decorated
  1938: Spawn of the North, Academy Honorary Award "for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North"
  1941: I Wanted Wings
  1942: Reap the Wild Wind
  1944: Scientific or Technical Award (Class III) "for the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod"
  1951: When Worlds Collide, Category "Special Effects", not competitively but as Special Achievement Academy Award
  1951: Scientific or Technical Award (Class II) "for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device"
  1953: The War of the Worlds, Category "Special Effects", not competitively but as Special Achievement Academy Award (posthumous)
  Nominated
  1939: Union Pacific
  1940: Typhoon
  1940: Dr. Cyclops
  1941: Aloma of the South Seas
  1943: So Proudly We Hail!
  1944: The Story of Dr. Wassell
  1947: Unconquered
  1950: Samson and Delilah
caption: Screenshot from "The War of the Worlds"
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