Gary Kosko is an Emmy Award-winning Art Director who worked on Star Trek for director/producer J.J. Abrams and production designer Scott Chambliss. Kosko previously worked with Abrams and Chambliss (among many other Star Trek production crew members) on Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible III (2006).
Kosko began his film art career as a set draftsman on Day of the Dead (1985, starring Sherman Howard). He later worked as property master on Monkey Shines (1988, starring Stephen Root). Kosko has since been an art director or assistant art director on such films as The Silence of the Lambs, Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Bob Roberts (1992, featuring Lee Arenberg, Alan Rickman, Susan Sarandon and Ray Wise), Cool Runnings (1993), Philadelphia (1993, starring Tom Hanks), Kingpin (1996), The Devil's Advocate, Deep Impact (1998, featuring James Cromwell, Denise Crosby, Christopher Darga, Mark Moses, Tucker Smallwood, Kurtwood Smith, Merrin Dungey and Concetta Tomei).
In addition, Kosko has worked on Boys (1996, starring Winona Ryder) and Guess Who (2005, starring Zoë Saldana). Kosko also worked on The Replacements (2000), with Star Trek's Jeffrey Chernov as an Executive Producer.
For his work as assistant art director on Wonder Boys (2000), Kosko was nominated for an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild. He shared this nomination with the film's senior art director Donald B. Woodruff, who later worked on Star Trek Nemesis.
Kosko also worked on two films featuring Star Trek: Enterprise's John Billingsley: Paramount's High Crimes (2002, starring Ashley Judd, Bruce Davison and Jude Ciccolella) and MGM's Out of Time (2003).
Kosko received his first Emmy Award nomination for his work on Citizen Cohn (1992, featuring Daniel Benzali, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Fritz Weaver and Jeffrey Nordling). Over a decade later, Kosko earned his second Emmy nomination – and his first win – for Outstanding Art Direction on Carnivàle, which starred the likes of Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, John Fleck, John Carroll Lynch, Scott MacDonald, Diane Salinger and John Savage.