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Rick Carter was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Avatar (2009), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Jurassic Park (1993).- Production Designer
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NATHAN CROWLEY (Production Designer) Born in London, grew up in Islington. Attended Brighton School of Art in England. He has received Academy Award nominations for" The Prestige", "The Dark Knight" and " Interstellar", also Bafta Nominations for "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight" , "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk" his seventh collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. He also received an Emmy nomination for his work on the HBO series "Westworld". Crowley has been the Designer on four of the "Costume institutes" exhibitions at " Metropolitan Museum of Art " that accompany the costume ball in New York every May. "Super Heroes", "American Women", " Impossible Conversations" and "China through the looking glass". He recently collaborated with Sofia Coppola on "La Traviata" at the Teatro del l'Opera di Roma.- Production Designer
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Stuart Craig was born on 14 April 1942 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He is a production designer and art director, known for The English Patient (1996), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He has been married to Patricia Stangroom since 1965. They have two children.- Production Designer
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Rick Heinrichs is known for Sleepy Hollow (1999), Glass Onion (2022) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).- Production Designer
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Guy Hendrix Dyas is a two-time Academy Award Nominated Production Designer and the recipient of a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design. Guy gained recognition in the design field through his collaborations with directors such as Pablo Larraín, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg.
Originally from Devon, South England, Guy obtained a Masters Degree in design from The Royal College of Art in London. Guy's professional journey started in Japan, working for several years as an Industrial Designer for the Sony Corporation in Tokyo.- Production Designer
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John Myhre was born in 1959. A film buff from an incredibly early age he began watching the TV coverage of the Oscars aged five and received a Super-8 camera for his seventh birthday. After graduating from Nathan Hale High School he studied film at the Bellevue Community College in the 1970s, subsidizing himself by working at a local cinema. He went to work designing film posters, in the process meeting several film-makers and in 1984 left his native Seattle for Hollywood, to be an assistant art director on horror comedy, 'Night of the Comet'. Since then he has designed several high profile movies and had three collaborations to date with Rob Marshall, gaining Oscars for two of them.- Production Designer
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John Barry was a British production designer. Started his career in the art department of the movie Cleopatra (1963). He is known chiefly for his imaginative design work on "Star Wars" and "Superman: The Movie". Barry got the opportunity to direct the sci-fi movie "Saturn 3" but was replaced during filming. However, he returned to the Star Wars universe on "The Empire Strikes Back" as a second unit director. On May 31st 1979, (two weeks into filming) he collapsed on-set and was hospitalized as his temperature rose to 104 degrees. He died at 2am on June 1st, a victim of meningitis.- Additional Crew
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Jim Bissell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BFA in Theater. After working in New York and L.A. on commercials and low budget features, he won an Emmy Award in 1980 for his work on Palmerstown, U.S.A. followed by a BAFTA nomination for production design on Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He was the original chair for the Art Directors Guild Awards as well as a former Vice President of the Guild. He has taught at AFI, USC, UCLA extension and the NC School of the Arts and is a member of the DGA, ADG, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.- Production Designer
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J. Michael Riva was born on 28 June 1948 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a production designer and art director, known for Iron Man (2008), The Color Purple (1985) and Django Unchained (2012). He was married to Julia Riva and Wendy Riva. He died on 7 June 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Production Designer
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Jess Gonchor was born on 15 July 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a production designer and art director, known for Hail, Caesar! (2016), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Little Women (2019).- Production Designer
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Grant Major was born in 1955 in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He is a production designer and art director, known for King Kong (2005), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).