Arnold Schwartzman
Arnold Martin Schwartzman OBE RDI is a British designer, author, and film director who in 1982 won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for his film of the reminiscences of Holocaust survivors titled Genocide.
Early life and family
Arnold Schwartzman was born in east London in 1936. His family moved to Margate, Kent when he was nine years old, where his parents ran the Majestic Hotel in Cliftonville. Schwartzman's first job in the movie industry was in Margate, as the assistant projectionist at the Cameo cinema. He studied at Canterbury College of Art, now University for the Creative Arts. He is married to Isolde.Career
Schwartzman's early career was in British television.In 1982, he won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, for Genocide. His other films are Liberation and Echoes That Remain. He has designed advertisements for the Oscars for several years.
In 1982 he was appointed the director of design for the Los Angeles Olympic Games. He later designed posters for four consecutive Academy Awards presentations from 1997 to 2000; the 69th, 70th, 71st, and 72nd Academy Awards.