Rick Heinrichs

Personal Info

Known For Art

Gender Male

Rick Heinrichs

Biography

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director, and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in The Watcher in the Woods, Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel, and Vincent, to later work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Nutcracker: The Motion Picture. He also worked on Frankenweenie.[citation needed] He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for Sleepy Hollow at the 72nd Academy Awards and received further nominations for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). He also contributed conceptual designs for Tim Burton's failed Superman Lives project. Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (in Valencia, California), he started to work at Disney, where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Heinrichs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Art

2025
The Gorge

as Production Design

2022
2019
Dumbo

as Production Design

2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as Production Design

2014
Big Eyes

as Production Design

2012
Dark Shadows

as Production Design

2012
Frankenweenie

as Production Design

2011
2010
The Wolfman

as Production Design

2003
Hulk

as Production Design

2001
Planet of the Apes

as Production Design

2000
Bedazzled

as Production Design

1999
Sleepy Hollow

as Production Design

1998
The Big Lebowski

as Production Design

1996
Fargo

as Production Design

1995
Red Wind

as Production Design

1993
Last Action Hero

as Art Direction

1993
Fallen Angels

as Production Design

1992
Batman Returns

as Art Direction

1991
The Fisher King

as Set Designer

1991
To the Moon, Alice

as Art Direction

1990
Edward Scissorhands

as Set Designer

1989
Ghostbusters II

as Set Designer

1983
Hansel and Gretel

as Sculptor

1982
Vincent

as Sculptor

1982
Vincent

as Art Direction

Producer

1984
Frankenweenie

as Associate Producer

1983
Hansel and Gretel

as Producer

1982
Vincent

as Producer