RICK HEINRICHS

  Production Designer

Rick Heinrichs is one of film’s most original and innovative visual artists, creating alternate worlds entirely appropriate to his film’s stories and settings. Most recently, Heinrichs has designed the monumental sets and ships for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” both directed by Gore Verbinski. His work on “Dead Man’s Chest” was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and an Art Directors Guild award. He won the Academy Award® for his work on Tim Burton’s
“Sleepy Hollow,” for which he also won the BAFTA and ADG Awards. He received another Oscar nomination and Art Directors Guild Award for his imaginative designs for “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

In 1992, Heinrichs moved up to art director on Burton’s “Batman Returns,” having previously Assistant art directed on “Soapdish.” He also served that year as visual consultant on “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Later, Heinrichs was production designer on Burton’s hit remake of “Planet of the Apes.” Heinrichs’ other credits as production designer include the Coen Brothers’ classics “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski”, and Ang Lee’s “Hulk.”