Arthur Max

Arthur Max began collaborating with director Ridley Scott in the TV commercial arena in 90's. Max has received an Academy Award nomination for his work on two Scott-directed films: Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, on which he brought ancient Rome to vivid life, and American Gangster, for which he recreated 1970s Harlem. For Gladiator, Max also won a BAFTA, a National Board of Review award, a Broadcast Film Critics award, and an Excellence in Production Design award from the Art Directors Guild. He received his fourth Art Directors Guild nomination for American Gangster.

Max's collaborations with Scott also include Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prometheus, and Robin Hood, for which he received his first Art Directors Guild nomination, Body of Lies; Kingdom of Heaven; Black Hawk Down, for which he received his second Art Directors Guild nomination, as well as an American Film Institute award nomination; and GI Jane.

Max has collaborated with director David Fincher, designing the filmmaker's dark 1995 crime drama Se7en, and more recently on his claustrophobic thriller Panic Room, for which Max received his third Art Directors Guild nomination.

A native New Yorker, Max graduated from New York University in the late 1960s and began his career as a stage lighting designer in the music industry. His early work included the historic 1969 Woodstock Festival and projects at Bill Graham's famous venue Fillmore East in New York's East Village. During the following decade, he designed concert stages for such legendary musical artists as T-Rex and Pink Floyd.

After studying architecture in England, earning degrees in the early 80s from Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art, Max went on to do several architectural design projects in London.

He worked in the British film industry as an assistant to such prominent production designers as Stuart Craig on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Cal, and Asshetton Gorton on Revolution. Max subsequently shifted his career focus to television commercials and, for a decade, designed for such clients as Pepsi, Nike, Jeep, Coke and Levi's, which led to his association with filmmakers Ridley Scott and David Fincher.

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