Stephen Grimes on AllMovie

Stephen B. Grimes spent most of his directing career working closely with distinguished filmmaker John Huston and was honored with an Academy Award nomination for his art direction on The Night of the Iguana (1964). Grimes started out working as Huston's assistant director on Moby Dick (1956) and then became Huston's production designer. Later, Grimes worked with other directors, most notably Sydney Pollack with whom he won Oscars for The Way We Were (1973) and Out of Africa (1985).