John Myhre

{{short description|American production designer (born 1959)}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = John Myhre | birth_name = | other_names = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Production designer | years_active = 1984-present | children = | spouse = }}

'''John Myhre''' (born 1959) is an American [[production designer]] who has been working in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] since the late 1980s.

He received his first [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination, for [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]], in 1998, for [[Shekhar Kapur]]'s ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'', bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers. His credits have included ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'', ''[[Ali (2001 film)|Ali]]'' and ''[[The Haunted Mansion (2003 film)|The Haunted Mansion]].'' He is also a frequent collaborator of director [[Rob Marshall]], working on the films ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]],'' ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]'', ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides]]'' and ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]'' with the former two winning him the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Myhre's production design was also seen in [[2006 in film|2006]] on [[Bill Condon]]'s ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'', which was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

==Academy Awards nominations & wins==

1998: Nominated for ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]''

2002: '''Won''' for ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]''.<ref name="Oscars2003">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2003 |title=The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners |access-date=November 20, 2011 |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=AMPAS |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110020903/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2003 |archive-date=November 10, 2014 }}</ref>

2005: '''Won''' for ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha (film)|Memoirs of a Geisha]]''<ref name="Oscars2006">{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2006 |title=The 78th Academy Awards (2006) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 26, 2019 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)}}</ref>

2006: Nominated for ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]''

2009: Nominated for ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]]''

2018: Nominated for ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]''

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0616924}}

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