text: Robert Boyle wins Honorary Oscar for his art direction career
  
  February 25, 2008 
  
  American art director and production designer Robert F. Boyle was honoured last night at the Academy Awards. 
  Hired as an extra in films during the Great Depression, the young architect became a draftsman at Paramount Studios, moving on to become a sketch artist and assistant art director, before becoming a full-fledged art director in the early 1940s, at Universal Studios. 
  His credits include Alfred Hitchcock films "Saboteur" (1942), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "The Birds" (1963). Other films to his credit include "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "Gaily, Gaily" (1969), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), and "The Shootist" (1976).
tokens: Robert Boyle wins Honorary Oscar for his art direction career February 25 , 2008 American art director and production designer Robert F. Boyle was honoured last night at the Academy Awards . Hired as an extra in films during the Great Depression , the young architect became a draftsman at Paramount Studios , moving on to become a sketch artist and assistant art director , before becoming a full - fledged art director in the early 1940s , at Universal Studios . His credits include Alfred Hitchcock films " Saboteur " ( 1942 ) , " North by Northwest " ( 1959 ) , and " The Birds " ( 1963 ) . Other films to his credit include " The Thomas Crown Affair " ( 1968 ) , " Gaily , Gaily " ( 1969 ) , " Fiddler on the Roof " ( 1971 ) , and " The Shootist " ( 1976 ) .
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