Rick Carter to Receive Production Designer of the Year Award
T-Rex in Jurassic Park; Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her
Academy Award-nominated Production Designer Rick Carter, whose work will be featured in James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar, will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the festival’s October 26 Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Carter’s Oscar nomination was for Robert Zemeckis‘ Forrest Gump (1994). Additionally, he received two nominations from the Art Directors Guild for a couple of his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Amistad (1997) and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).
Among Carter’s other screen credits are Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), Munich (2005), and War of the Worlds (2005), plus The Goonies (1985), Three Fugitives (1989), and Zemeckis’ Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), and The Polar Express (2004).
He also worked on the Emmy Award-winning television series Amazing Stories from 1985-1986.
Previous recipients of the Hollywood Film Festival’s Production Designer Award are Robert Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Stuart Craig, William Creber, Dante Ferretti, Sarah Greenwood, Grant Major, Harold Michelson and John Myhre.
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