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LOS ANGELES -- AlbertNozaki, an Academy Award-nominated art director whose credits include the epic "The 10 Commandments" and the science-fiction classic "The War of the Worlds," died Nov. 16 in a Los Angeles hospital.
Nozaki, whose nearly four-decade career at Paramount Pictures was interrupted by his relocation to the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, died of complications of pneumonia.
Nozaki had worked on producer George Pal's 1951 science fiction film "When Worlds Collide" when Pal tapped him as art director to convert and modernize the written visuals for his 1953 screen version of the H.G. Wells novel about Martians invading Earth.
AlbertNozaki, an Oscar-nominated art director, died on Nov. 16 from pneumonia.
A Japanese native who moved to the United States when he was three years old, Nozaki received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Southern California, and a master's in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois.
Nozaki was eventually rehired by Paramount, only to become the studio's supervising art director for features.
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