Rick Carter

Rick Carter won an Academy Award® and a BAFTA in 2010 for his other-worldly production design on James Cameron's mega-hit "Avatar." He was also honored by his peers with an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design on a Fantasy Film. Carter received his first Oscar® nomination for his work on Robert Zemeckis' "Forrest Gump."

Carter more recently created the production design on "Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. He has collaborated with Steven Spielberg on numerous films over the years, including "Munich," "War of the Worlds," "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," "Amistad" and the blockbusters "Jurassic Park" and its sequel, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," and more recently on "Lincoln" and "War Horse." In 2011, he was the production designer on Zack Snyder's epic fantasy "Sucker Punch."

Carter has been Zemeckis' production designer of choice on the films "The Polar Express," "Cast Away," "What Lies Beneath," "Death Becomes Her" and "Back to the Future Part II" and "Part III."

Earlier in his career, Carter designed for the television anthology series "Amazing Stories," which was produced by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. His work on the show also teamed him with such notable directors as Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, among others.

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