Adam Stockhausen is an American

production designer In film and television, a production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Work ...

known for his collaborations with

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, and

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. He's received four nominations for the

Academy Award for Best Production Design The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted f ...

, winning for ''

The Grand Budapest Hotel ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort ...

'' (2014).

Early life and education

Stockhausen grew up in

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Wauwatosa ( ; colloquially Tosa) is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 48,387 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Wauwatosa is a suburb located immediately west of Milwaukee and is part of the Milwa ...

and graduated with a

Theater Arts Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

degree from

Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Ar ...

's Diederich College of Communication in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts from the

Yale School of Drama The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in ...

in 1999.

Career

Stockhausen, along with set decorator Anna Pinnock won the

for the 2014 film ''

''. Previously he was nominated for the

for the 2013 film ''

12 Years a Slave ''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., whe ...

'' together with set decorator Alice Baker. He was also nominated for the

for the 2015 film '' Bridge of Spies'' along with set decorators Bernhard Henrich and Rena DeAngelo.

Filmography

As production designer As art director

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* Living people American production designers Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners Marquette University alumni People from Brookfield, Wisconsin Place of birth missing (living people) David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-bio-stub