29 Movies / Thursdays in January

William Cameron Menzies was perhaps the most celebrated art director in all of cinema, so defining the profession that a new and elevated term, "production designer" was coined especially for him. Menzies was the first person to win an Academy Award for Art Direction (for 1927's The Dove) and for the new category of Production Design (a special Oscar for Gone with the Wind).

Join TCM each Thursday in January as the channel salutes this brilliant and legendary artist.

The host of this Spotlight series is author James Curtis, whose book, William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come, became the first comprehensive study of Menzies and his work when it was published in November 2015.

Among many outstanding Menzies credits in TCM's tribute are Alice in Wonderland (1933), Our Town (1940), Kings Row (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and two TCM premieres: Bulldog Drummond (1929) and Chandu the Magician (1932).