Rick Carter
{{Short description|American production designer and art director}}
{{for multi|the American football coach|Rick E. Carter|the DC Comics character|Mysto|other people with similar names|Richard Carter (disambiguation){{!}}Richard Carter}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1952
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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| nationality = American
| occupation = Production designer, art director
| years_active = 1976–present
| notable_works = Back to the Future Part II and III, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Avatar, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Rick Carter (born 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an American production designer and art director. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, particularly on the films Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, War Horse, and Lincoln. He is also known for his work on James Cameron's Avatar, and for the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Wars films The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker. He is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work on Avatar and Lincoln''.
Early life and education
Carter's father was publicist, and later, motion picture producer, Dick Carter. His mother, Ruth, was a one-time Life magazine staffer, and later Realtor in Southern California.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141437/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Rick Carter Biography|website=IMDb}}
Carter's student days at UCSC were spent painting. Participating in a film panel at 2011's "Bridging the Gap" Arts Division event, the former Art major joined then Arts Dean David Yager in revisiting his alma mater and reliving the unique experience of his UCSC days.{{Cite news|url=https://arts.ucsc.edu/features/featured-story/rick-carter-art-directs-lincoln|title=ARTS ALUM RICK CARTER TAKES OSCAR|work=University of Santa Cruz}}
Career
= Beginnings =
A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, he dropped out of the University of California at Berkeley and eventually entered the art department for the first time as an assistant on Hal Ashby’s Bound for Glory (1976) followed by James Bridges’ The China Syndrome (1979).{{Cite news|url=https://www.screendaily.com/rick-carter-/5048431.article|title=Rick Carter|date=2012-10-31|work=Screen Daily|access-date=2020-03-20}}
Film
His first credit as art director was with Ashby again on Second-Hand Hearts (1981), but art-directing The Goonies in 1985 was a pivotal job for the designer, as it led to another key meeting for Carter: with that film's writer and producer Steven Spielberg. The two hit it off and began a close working relationship that endures to the present day.
Filmography
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| Year
! Title ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| rowspan=2|1989
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| Back to the Future Part II
|rowspan=3|Robert Zemeckis | |
| 1990
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| 1992
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| 1993
|Also wrote an unused draft of the film |
| 1994
|Robert Zemeckis | |
| rowspan=2|1997
|The Lost World: Jurassic Park |rowspan=2|Steven Spielberg | |
| Amistad
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| rowspan=2|2000
|rowspan=2|Robert Zemeckis |With William James Teegarden |
| Cast Away
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| 2001
|Steven Spielberg | |
| 2004
|Robert Zemeckis |With Doug Chiang |
| rowspan=2|2005
|rowspan=2|Steven Spielberg | |
| Munich
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| 2009
|With Robert Stromberg |
| rowspan=2|2011
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| War Horse
|rowspan=2|Steven Spielberg | |
| 2012
| |
| 2015
|With Darren Gilford |
| 2016
|rowspan=2|Steven Spielberg |With Robert Stromberg |
| 2017
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| 2019
|Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker |J. J. Abrams |With Kevin Jenkins |
| 2022
|Steven Spielberg | |
Accolades
References
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External links
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{{AcademyAwardBestArtDirection 2001–2020}}
{{Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film}}
{{Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award}}
{{BAFTA Award for Best Production Design}}
{{Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Art Direction}}
{{Satellite Award Best Art Direction and Production Design}}
{{Saturn Award for Best Production Design}}
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Category:American art directors
Category:American production designers
Category:Best Art Direction Academy Award winners