David Gropman

{{short description|American production designer}} {{Lead too long|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox person |name = David Gropman |birth_name = David Lloyd Gropman |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|16}} |birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S. |occupation = Production designer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2013/02/life-of-pi-ang-lee-production-design-oscar-nomination|title=Sketch to Still: Life of Pi Designer David Gropman on Creating a Magical Island and 1950s Paris on a Taiwanese Tarmac|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]]|first=Julie|last=Miller|date=February 15, 2013|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref> }}

'''David Lloyd Gropman''' (born June 16, 1952) is an American [[production designer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/02/oscars-life-of-pi-re-created-parisian-pool-for-key-scene-431962/|title=OSCARS: ‘Life Of Pi’ Production Design|author=The Deadline Team|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=February 12, 2013|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/london-insider-reveals-best-places-eat-stay-play-1182631/|title=London Insider Reveals Best Places to Eat, Stay and Play|first=Richard|last=Morais|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=February 8, 2019|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/toronto-holds-style-88-hairspray-143740/|title=Toronto holds style of ’88 ‘Hairspray’|author=[[AP News]]|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 8, 2007|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref> He was nominated for two [[Academy Awards]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]] for the films ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' and ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000|title=The 72nd Academy Awards (2000) Nominees and Winners|work=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2013|title=The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners|work=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref>

Gropman also works in the theatre, and was the scenic designed for 10 Broadway shows: ''The 1940's Radio Hour'' (1979), ''Billy Bishop Goes to War'' (1980), ''[[Passione (play)|Passione]]'' (1980), ''[[Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music]]'' (1981), ''[[Mass Appeal (play)|Mass Appeal]]'' (1981), ''[[Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play)|Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean]]'' (1982), ''A Little Family Business'' (1982), ''[[Open Admissions]]'' (1984), ''[[Death and the King's Horseman]]'' (1987), and ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' (1987).<ref>{{IBDB name|david-gropman-26210}}</ref> Gropman also worked [[Off-Broadway]], designing productions at the Promenade Theatre, [[Circle in the Square Theatre]], the [[Provincetown Playhouse]] in Manhattan, [[The Public Theater]], the [[Lucille Lortel Theatre]], [[Playwrights Horizons]], and [[Manhattan Theatre Club]]'s Stage 73 between 1979 and 1985.<ref>{{iobdb name|9603}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == * ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' (1999; co-nominated with [[Beth Rubino]]) * ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]'' (2012; co-nominated with [[Anna Pinnock]])

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{{Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film}} {{Authority control}}

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