Carol Spier is a Canadian

production designer In film and television, the 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. Wo ...

and art director. Much of her work has been on David Cronenberg films.

Recognition

* 1980

Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ...

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The Brood ''The Brood'' is a 1979 Canadian psychological body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle. Its plot follows a man and his mentally ill ex-wife, who has been sequestered b ...

'' - Nominated * 1982 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction - ''

Scanners ''Scanners'' is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathi ...

'' - Nominated * 1984 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction - ''

Videodrome ''Videodrome'' is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF televis ...

'' - Nominated * 1986 Gemini Award for Best Production Design or Art Direction - '' Anne of Green Gables'' - Won * 1989 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - '' Dead Ringers'' - Won * 1992 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''

Naked Lunch ''Naked Lunch'' (sometimes ''The Naked Lunch'') is a 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order. The reader follows the na ...

'' - Won * 2000 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - '' eXistenZ'' - Won (shared with Elinor Rose Galbraith) * 2006 DGC Craft Award for Outstanding Production Design - Feature Film - ''

A History of Violence ''A History of Violence'' is a 2005 action thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same title by John Wagner and Vince Locke. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, ...

'' - Nominated * 2007 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''

Eastern Promises ''Eastern Promises'' is a 2007 gangster film directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Steven Knight. The film tells the story of Anna (Naomi Watts), a Russian-British midwife who delivers the baby of a drug-addicted 14-year old Russian ...

'' - Nominee * 2015 DGC Craft Award for Outstanding Production Design - Feature Film - ''

Maps to the Stars ''Maps to the Stars'' is a 2014 internationally co-produced satirical drama film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screen ...

'' - Pending

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* Canadian art directors Canadian production designers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Best Art Direction/Production Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Canadian women in film {{artdirector-stub