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Rick Heinrichs

Biography:

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director, and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in The Watcher in the Woods, Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel, and Vincent, to later work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Nutcracker: The Motion Picture. He also worked on Frankenweenie.[citation needed] He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for Sleepy Hollow at the 72nd Academy Awards and received further nominations for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).

He also contributed conceptual designs for Tim Burton's failed Superman Lives project.

Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (in Valencia, California), he started to work at Disney, where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his.

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Known For

Art

2025

The Gorge as Production Design

2019

Dumbo as Production Design

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Production Design

2014

Big Eyes as Production Design

2012

Dark Shadows as Production Design
Frankenweenie as Production Design

2010

The Wolfman as Production Design

2003

Hulk as Production Design

2001

Planet of the Apes as Production Design

2000

Bedazzled as Production Design

1999

Sleepy Hollow as Production Design

1998

The Big Lebowski as Production Design

1996

Fargo as Production Design

1995

Red Wind as Production Design

1993

Last Action Hero as Art Direction
Fallen Angels as Production Design

1992

Batman Returns as Art Direction

1991

The Fisher King as Set Designer
To the Moon, Alice as Art Direction

1990

Edward Scissorhands as Set Designer

1989

Ghostbusters II as Set Designer

1983

Hansel and Gretel as Sculptor

1982

Vincent as Sculptor
Vincent as Art Direction

Production

1984

Frankenweenie as Associate Producer

1983

Hansel and Gretel as Producer

1982

Vincent as Producer