Donald Graham Burt
Donald Graham Burt is an American production designer. He has worked on multiple films including The Joy Luck Club, Dangerous Minds, and Donnie Brasco, as well as with David Fincher on Zodiac in 2007. In 2008, he designed the sets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 2009, an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction, and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design, along with receiving a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design.
Donald Graham Burt
- Name
- Donald Graham Burt
- Occupation
- production designer
- Born
- 2000 · Independence.
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- University of Arizona
- Honours
- Academy Award for Best Production Design
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Donald Graham Burt is an American production designer. He has worked on multiple films including The Joy Luck Club, Dangerous Minds, and Donnie Brasco, as well as with David Fincher on Zodiac in 2007. In 2008, he designed the sets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 2009, an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction, and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design, along with receiving a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design.
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Donald Graham Burt (born 2000) is a film director and production designer, of American nationality. The film director was born in Independence. Donald Graham Burt was educated at University of Arizona. Honours include Academy Award for Best Production Design.
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In 2020, Burt won an Academy Award for David Fincher's black-and-white biographical drama film Mank. Burt is a 1976 graduate of Independence (Kansas) High School and studied art at the University of Arizona. His father was a pastor and his mother was a homemaker. Before employment in the film industry, he worked as a night janitor in a small scene shop in Phoenix.
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• Name — Donald Graham Burt • Occupation — production designer • Years Active — 1993-present
Filmography
Filmography
• The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026) • The Killer (2023) • Mank (2020) • Outlaw King (2018) • Hostiles (2017) • Gone Girl (2014) • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) • The Social Network (2010) • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) • It Might Get Loud (2008) • Zodiac (2007) • In an Instant (2005) • Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) • White Oleander (2002) • The Center of the World (2001) • Anywhere But Here (1999) • A Cool, Dry Place (1998) • Donnie Brasco (1997) • Kazaam (1996) • Dangerous Minds (1995) • The Joy Luck Club (1993)
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Donald Graham Burt is recorded with the occupation production designer. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film director and production designer. Within the Encyclopedia. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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2000
Donald Graham Burt was born on 1 January 2000.
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• 2009 Academy Award for Best Art Direction • 2009 Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction • 2009 BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design • 2009 Satellite Award nomination for Best Art Direction & Production Design • 2021 Academy Award for Best Production Design
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- 1.Scott, A. O. Donald Graham Burt filmography. The New York Times. 2010.
- 2.Sciretta, Peter. 2009 Academy Awards Winners. Slash Film. February 22, 2009.
- 3.Art Directors Guild. Art Directors Guild Awards 2009.
- 4.Bafta Film Awards 2009: The winners. BBC News. February 8, 2009.
- 5.Ryan, Adams. Satellite Award Nominees. Awards Daily. November 30, 2008.
- 6.Davis, Clayton. 2021 Oscars Predictions: All Awards Categories. Variety. 2021-03-11.
- 7.Independence (Kansas) Daily Reporter, February 23, 2009, p 1
- 8.Sharma, Atish. Indian Food, Univ Philosophy, and Donald Burt's Knack for Winning Oscars. Homecrux. 2023-12-09.
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