Richard Heinrichs is an American

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 ...

, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his work on the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series,

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's '' Hulk'' and ''

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''. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in '' The Watcher in the Woods'',

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's ''

Hansel and Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. Hansel ...

'' and '' Vincent'' to later work on '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and '' Nutcracker: The Motion Picture''. He also worked on '' Frankenweenie''. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (now called 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 fro ...

) for '' Sleepy Hollow'' (1999) and received further nominations for ''

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'' (2004) and '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (2006). He also contributed conceptional designs for Tim Burton's failed '' Superman Lives'' project.

Biography

Graduated from the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

(in

Valencia, California Valencia is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County, California. This area, with major commercial and industrial parks, straddles State Route 126 and the Santa Clara River. Development projects continue to be built in ...

), he started to work at

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where he met

and became a regular collaborator of his.

Filmography

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