1948-Present
Entered the film industry when he designed the dossier information and worked on the ad campaign of Apocalypse Now ; received screen credit as production assistant
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Grew up in Portland, Oregon
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Hired by Francis Ford Coppola and Dean Tavoularis as a staff designer at Coppola s Zoetrope Studios
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Worked as graphic designer for record albums
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Awards:
Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design,
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards Feature Film - Fantasy Film,
Academy Award for Best Art Direction,
BAFTA Award for Best Production Design/Art Direction
Nominations:
Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design,
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards - Contemporary Film,
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards,
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards - Period or Fantasy Film,
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards Feature Film - Fantasy Film,
Academy Award for Best Art Direction,
BAFTA Award for Best Production Design/Art Direction
Known For
Production Designer (25 titles)
1986 The Hitcher
Education
Education
| University of Oregon, Eugene , Oregon | |
| Art Center College of Design, Pasadena , California |
Career Milestones
| Entered the film industry when he designed the dossier information and worked on the ad campaign of Apocalypse Now ; received screen credit as production assistant | |
| Grew up in Portland, Oregon | |
| Hired by Francis Ford Coppola and Dean Tavoularis as a staff designer at Coppola s Zoetrope Studios | |
| Worked as graphic designer for record albums | |
1982 | Received screen credit for graphic design on Coppola s One from the Heart and on Wim Wenders s Hammett |
1983 | First credit as production designer (with Dean Tavoularis), Rumble Fish |
1986 | Did the title design for Static and Under the Cherry Moon |
1986 | First credit as solo production designer, Wisdom |
1988 | Production designer for Earth Girls Are Easy |
1989 | Designed the baseball film, Field of Dreams |
1990 | First film with the Coen brothers, Miller s Crossing |
1991 | Designed Barry Levinson s Bugsy, which won him an Oscar and the Coen brother s Barton Fink for which he earned an Oscar nomination |
1994 | Production designer for the Coen s brothers, The Hudsucker Proxy |
1998 | Designed The Truman Show |
2000 | Re-teamed with the Coen brothers for O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
2003 | Designed tim Burton s Big Fish |
2004 | Sixth collaboration with the Coen brother s The Ladykillers |
2006 | Production designer for Robert Towne s Ask the Dust |
2007 | Earned third Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction for The Golden Compass |
