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Aaron Haye (born 26 October 1973; age 51) is a designer who worked as assistant art director on Star Trek. This work earned him an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film in 2010 which he shared with Scott Chambliss, Dennis Bradford, Curt Beech, Luke Freeborn, Beat Frutiger, Gary Kosko, Ryan Church, Keith P. Cunningham, Clint Schultz, James Clyne, Paul Ozzimo, John Eaves, Bruce G. Smith, Karen Manthey, C. Scott Baker, Dawn Brown, Kevin Cross, Andrea Dopaso, Jeff Frost, Scott Herbertson, Joseph Hiura, Billy Hunter, Harry E. Otto, Anne Porter, Andrew Reeder, and Jane Wuu. Haye previously worked as model maker for Industrial Light & Magic on Star Trek: First Contact but received no credit for this work.

Haye has started his career working as model maker for ILM. Projects during this time include Mission: Impossible (1996, with Michael Conte, David Dozoretz, Selwyn Eddy, Paul Huston, Susan Kelly-Andrews, Drew Klausner, Marshall Richard Krasser, Janet Lewin, Jodie Maier, Greg Maloney, Roni McKinley, Terry Molatore, Jim Morris, George Murphy, Patrick T. Myers, Joshua Pines, Ginger Theisen, Bruce Vecchitto, Alex Jaeger, and Chad Taylor), Daylight (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), Men in Black (1997, with Alia Agha, Stephen Aplin, Joel Aron, Al Bailey, John Andrew Berton, Jr., Patricia Blau, Barbara Brennan, Ronn Brown, Sue Campbell, Gail Currey, Chrissie England, Raul Essig, Gerald Gutschmidt, Tony Hudson, Peg Hunter, Polly Ing, Patrick Jarvis, Susan Kelly-Andrews, Gregor Lakner, Margaret B. Lynch, Jeff Mann, Bill Mather, Jennifer McKnew, Chris Mitchell, Steve Molin, Jim Morris, Melissa Mullin, Anthony Pitone, Elsa Rodriguez, Jason Snell, Damian Steel, Chad Taylor, Marjolaine Tremblay, Bruce Vecchitto, and David Washburn), Starship Troopers (1997), the digital remastered versions of the science fiction films Star Wars (1997) and The Empire Strikes Back (1997), Snake Eyes (1998), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Bicentennial Man (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Mission to Mars (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Impostor (2001), and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

Around 2002, Haye moved into 3D design for film productions and went into set design in the art department. He worked for Cinema Production Services Inc. on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), as model crew chief for New Deal Studios on The Fountain (2006, with Shannon Blake Gans and Matthew Gratzner), as CAD Foreman on The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and as lead model maker on The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Constantine (2005).

Among his further credits as set designer and digital set designer are XXX: State of the Union (2005, with Steve Christensen, Dan Engle, Luke Freeborn, Jeff Frost, Kurt V. Hulett, Jim Martin, and Jeff Valdez), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, with Steve Christensen, James Clyne, Daren Dochterman, John Eaves, Andrew Li, Victor James Martinez, Richard F. Mays, and Bryan Sutton), Monster House (2006), The Kingdom (2007), Watchmen (2009), Unstoppable (2010), and Green Lantern (2011).

His work as assistant art director on the drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button earned him an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Period Film in 2009 which he shared with Lorrie Campbell, Tammy S. Lee, Jane Wuu, Richard Bennett, and Christopher S. Ross. Haye earned another ADG Award in the category Commercial, PSA, Promo, and Music Video in 2014 for his work on the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts which he shared with Todd Cherniawsky, Louis Joseph Comeau IV, and Patrick J. Rodriguez. He earned two more nominations – in 2011 in the category Contemporary Film for his work on the drama The Social Network which he shared with Curt Beech, Keith P. Cunningham, Randall D. Wilkins, Jane Wuu, and Richard Bennett and in 2015 in the category Fantasy Film for his work on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes which he shared with Billy Hunter, Martha Johnston, Greg Papalia, Michael Cawood, Nathan Schroeder, Adam Gelbart, Brett Phillips, Jim Magdaleno, and Amanda Moss Serino.

As art director, Haye worked on An American Carol (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), Leonie (2010), Battleship (2012, with William Ladd Skinner), Man of Steel (2013), 42 (2013, with Sharon Davis and Dennis Bradford), Terminator Genisys (2015, with Greg Papalia), and Mechanic: Resurrection (2016). In 2017 he received special thanks in the end credits of Blade Runner 2049.

In 2018, Haye worked as production designer on the music drama Bohemian Rhapsody, directed and executive produced by Bryan Singer. This work earned him a New Mexico Film Critics Award in the category Best Production Design, a British Film Designers Guild Award in the category Best Production Design – International Studio Feature Film – Period (both in 2018), and an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Period Film in 2019.

More recent credits as production designer include The Gifted pilot episode "eXposed" (2017, directed by Bryan Singer), Charlie's Angels (2019), and the first season of the television series The Stand (2020, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Brad William Henke).

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