Donald Graham Burt
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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.[1] In 2008, he designed the sets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 2009,[2] an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction,[3] and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design,[4] along with receiving a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design.[5] In 2020, Burt won an Academy Award for David Fincher's black-and-white biographical drama film Mank.[6]
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Occupation | production designer |
Years active | 1993-present |
Burt is a 1976 graduate of Independence (Kansas) High School and studied art at the University of Arizona.[7] 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.[8]