Dennis Gassner
Dennis Gassner ( born October 22, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian art director, who also won several other film awards in addition to the Oscar for Best Production Design.
Life
Gassner began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1979 with Apocalypse Now and previously served on the scenic features of more than thirty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1992 he won along with Nancy Haigh the Oscar for Best Production Design for the gangster film Bugsy ( 1991) by Barry Levinson starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Harvey Keitel in the lead roles. He was also nominated for these Oscars with Nancy Haigh in this Oscar category for the scene in Barton Fink Image ( 1991) by Ethan and Joel Coen with John Turturro, John Goodman and Judy Davis.
1994 Dennis Gassner won the Prize of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association ( LAFCA Award) for Best Production Design in Hudsucker - Der große Sprung (1994 ) by the Coen brothers starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman.
In 1999, he won his first British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA Film Award ) for The Truman Show (1998 ) by Peter Weir with Jim Carrey, Laura Linney and Noah Emmerich. In addition, he also won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Production Design for the scenic features of this film in 1999.
This was followed in 2001 was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (2000) by Ethan and Joel Coen, starring George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson in the lead roles.
2002 Gassner was with Chris Gorak and Lance Hammer for the first time nominated for the Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild ( ADG) for The Man Who Was not There by Joel Coen starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand and Michael Badalucco in the lead roles. He was also nominated for Best Production Design for this for the price of the Phoenix Film Critics Society ( PFCS Award).
Another Oscar nomination for Best Production Design, he and Nancy Haigh received in 2003 for Road to Perdition (2002) by Sam Mendes with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. For this he was, Richard L. Johnson, Jann K. Engel, Ted Haigh and Thomas Minton also nominated for an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award. For this film, he also won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design, and was again for a PFCS Award for Best Production Design and Richard L. Johnson for a Golden Satellite Award nomination.
A re- nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design got Dennis Gassner 2004 for the fantasy film Big Fish (2003) by Tim Burton with the main actors Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Alison Lohman.
Another nomination for the ADG Excellence in Production Design Award he received, Stefan Dechant, Christina Wilson, Marco Niro, A. Todd Holland and Christopher Tandon for the 2006 war film Jarhead - Welcome in the dirt (2005) by Sam Mendes with the main actors Jake Gyllenhaal Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard.
At the Academy Awards in 2008 he was nominated once again with Anna Pinnock for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for The Golden Compass (2007) by Chris Weitz with Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. For this film he won with Richard L. Johnson, Chris Lowe, Andy Nicholson, Tino Schaedler, James Foster, Gavin Fitch and Helen Xenopoulos 2008, the ADG Excellence in Production Design Award.
Together with his multi-headed staff, he was in 2009 again for the ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination for James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace (2008) by Marc Forster with Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric and Olga Kurylenko.
Last Gassner worked at the scenic features of the James Bond film James Bond 007: Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes with Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory and Javier Bardem. The movie was released in 2012 in theaters on.