Who is Rick Carter?

His Life

Rick Carter, born 1950 in Los Angeles, California, is an American production designer and art director. A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, he dropped out of the University of California at Berkeley and eventually entered the art department for the first time as an assistant on Hal Ashby’s Bound for Glory(1976) followed by James Bridges’ The China Syndrome (1979). His first credit as art director was with Ashby again on Second-Hand Hearts (1981), but art-directing The Goonies in 1985 was a pivotal job for the designer, as it led to another key meeting for Carter: with that film’s writer and producer Steven Spielberg. Oscar Winner for best Production Design in Avatar (2009) and Lincoln (2012)

Watch Rick Carter as he goes through some of his process for Forest Gump (1994)

His Work