Two time Academy Award winning and four time nominated Production Designer and Art Director Rick Carter will receive the Art Directors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Guild's 18th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 8, 2014 at the black-tie ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The announcement came today from John Shaffner, ADG Council Chairman and ADG Award Producers Raf Lydon and Dave Blass.
"Rick Carter's work as a Production Designer is among the best in the history of our profession. He personifies all the qualities of an artist and is the Guild's perfect choice this year to join the ranks of our Lifetime Achievers," says Shaffner. Carter's distinguished work has garnered him two Oscar wins- for Lincoln (shared with Jim Erikson, 2013) and for Avatar (shared with Robert Stromberg, 2010). He also received two Oscar nominations with Forest Gump (1994) and War Horse (2011). He received the Art Directors Guild's Excellence in Production Design Award for Avatar in 2010, the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design for Avatar, the Saturn Award for Best Production Design for Avatar, the Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design for Lincoln, among many other nominations. Carter's first experience in Production Design was in 1976 on the set of Bound for Glory. He has had a long association with Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, working on films such as The Goonies (1985), the Back to the Future trilogy franchise, the Jurassic Park franchise, Amistad (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), and War of the Worlds (2005).Videos