Lawrence G. Paull (April 13, 1938 – November 10, 2019) was an American neofuturistic production designer and

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category

Best Art Direction 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 the film '' Blade Runner''.

Selected filmography

* ''

The Hired Hand ''The Hired Hand'' is a 1971 American western film directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. The cinematography was by Vilmos Zsigmond. Bruce Langhorne provided the moody fi ...

'' (1971) * ''

Star Spangled Girl ''Star Spangled Girl'' is a 1971 American romantic comedy film directed by Jerry Paris and based on the 1966 Neil Simon play ''The Star-Spangled Girl''. It stars Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts, Todd Susman, and Elizabeth Allen. Plot In a Los Ang ...

'' (1971) * ''

The Naked Ape ''The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal'' is a 1967 book by English zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris that looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. '' The Human Zoo'', a follow-up book by Morris th ...

'' (1973) * '' Blue Collar'' (1978) * ''

In God We Tru$t ''In God We Tru$t'' is a 1980 American comedy film starring Marty Feldman, Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser and Peter Boyle. Intended as a biting religious satire, it was also produced, directed and co-written by Feldman. Plot A naive monk, Brother ...

'' (1980) * '' Blade Runner'' (1982) * '' Romancing the Stone'' (1984) * ''

American Flyers ''American Flyers'' is a 1985 American sports drama film about bicycle racing directed by John Badham and starring Kevin Costner, David Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, Luca Bercovici and Janice Rule. It was written by Steve Tesich. P ...

'' (1985) * '' Back to the Future'' (1985) * '' Project X'' (1987) * '' Cross My Heart'' (1987) * '' License to Drive'' (1988) * '' Cocoon: The Return'' (1988) * '' Harlem Nights'' (1989) * ''

The Last of the Finest ''The Last of the Finest'', also released as ''Blue Heat'', is a 1990 American crime action film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, and Bill Paxton Plot The film opens at Canyon Park where narcotic ...

'' (1990) * '' Predator 2'' (1990) * '' City Slickers'' (1991) * ''

Unlawful Entry Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land. Trespass to the person historically involved six separate trespasses: threats, assault, battery, wounding ...

'' (1992) * '' Born Yesterday'' (1993) * '' Naked Gun : The Final Insult'' (1994) * ''

Escape from L.A. ''Escape from L.A.'' (stylized on-screen as ''John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.'') is a 1996 American Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and p ...

'' (1996)

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* * 1938 births 2019 deaths American production designers American art directors Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners {{US-artdirector-stub