Dennis gassner

Dennis Gassner

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

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

    

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

The Truman Show (1998)

Big Fish (2003)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Production Designer (25 titles)

???? Bond 24 (announced)

2012 Skyfall (completed)

2008 Quantum of Solace

2007 The Golden Compass

2006 Ask the Dust

2005 Jarhead

2004 The Ladykillers

2003 Big Fish

2002 Road to Perdition

2001 The Man Who Wasn't There

2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?

1998 The Truman Show

1995 Waterworld

1994 The Hudsucker Proxy

1992/I Hero

1991 Bugsy

1991 Barton Fink

1990 The Grifters

1990 Miller's Crossing

1989 Field of Dreams

1988 Earth Girls Are Easy

1987 Like Father Like Son

1987 In the Mood

1987 Wisdom

1986 The Hitcher


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