Honorary Oscar

Robert Boyle '33

Legendary production designer and 1933 USC Alumnus Robert Boyle has been voted an Honorary Academy Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award will be given to Boyle at the 80th Academy Awards presentation on February 24, 2008, “in recognition of one of cinema’s great careers in art direction.”

Boyle has earned four Academy Award nominations in the art direction category for his work on North by Northwest (1959), Gaily, Gaily (1969), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and The Shootist (1976).

More information may be found on the Academy's official Web site.