Gary Fettis

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Gary Fettis

Gary Fettis (* 1950 ) is an American production designer in films. He became known through his work for over 30 cinema productions, including films such as The Cradle of the Sun , Forgotten World: Jurassic Park , Letters from Iwo Jima , Gran Torino and Interstellar .

life and work

Gary Fettis, born in 1950, has worked in the film business in various positions since the mid-1970s. He first worked as a carpenter for Francis Ford Coppola's film production The Godfather - Part II , for John Schlesinger's The Day of the Grasshopper or for Alan J. Pakula's Die Untechrecke , later also as a set fitter and prop master for films such as Apocalypse Now , Melvin and Howard , Hammett or Peggy Sue got married .

In 1990 he and Dean Tavoularis produced the sets for Coppola's The Godfather - Part III , for which the two each received an Oscar nomination in the category of best production design . Since the 1990s he has worked as a production designer, including films such as Walter Hill's film productions Wild Bill and Last Man Standing , the thriller 8mm - Eight Millimeters by director Joel Schumacher , the horror film End of Days - Night Without Tomorrow by Peter Hyams , Randall Wallace's war drama Wir were heroes or Peter Segal's comedy Game Without Rules . For director Clint Eastwood in 2006 he delivered the buildings for his war drama Letters from Iwo Jima . In 2008 he was nominated for a second Oscar together with James J. Murakami as a set designer for the Eastwood drama The Stranger Son . He also supplied the structures for Eastwood's films Gran Torino , Hereafter - Life After , J. Edgar , Back in the Game , American Sniper and Sully with Tom Hanks in the lead role. In 2015 he and his younger colleague Nathan Crowley were nominated for a third Oscar for Christopher Nolan's science fiction adventure film Interstellar . In addition, Gary Fettis was nominated as a production designer for the British Academy Film Award , the Art Directors Guild and the Critics' Choice Movie Award .

Filmography (selection)

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Awards (selection)

literature

  • Gary Fettis. In: Cinematographers, production designers, costume designers and film editors guide. , Lone Eagle Publishing Company, p. 639

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gary Fettis. In: Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz: Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated. , Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2012, p. Xliv
personal data
SURNAME Fettis, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American production designer in the film
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH United States