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Lauren E. Polizzi (born 15 November 1958; age 65) is an Art Director who worked under production designer Scott Chambliss on Star Trek Into Darkness and as Art Director on Star Trek Beyond. [1]

On Into Darkness, Polizzi worked on the Daystrom Conference Room set, including the elevator and meeting area and the surface of the planet Nibiru. [2]

Her work on 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness earned her an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in 2014 in the category Fantasy Film which she shared with Scott Chambliss, Ramsey Avery, James Clyne, Kasra Farahani, Michael E. Goldman, Harry E. Otto, Andrew E.W. Murdock, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Natasha Gerasimova, Steve Christensen, Andrea Dopaso, John Eaves, Nathan Schroeder, Ryan Church, Christopher Ross, Victor Martinez, Steven Messing, Karl Strahlendorf, John Chichester, Tex Kadonaga, Kevin Cross, Andrew Reeder, Anne Porter, Jane Wuu, Richard F. Mays, Allen Coulter, Karl Martin, Scott Schneider, Lorrie Campbell, Easton Smith, Tammy Lee, Tim Croshaw, Clint Schultz, and Karen Manthey.

Personal and early career[]

Polizzi was born in Los Angeles and was among a group of teenagers who were cast to be extras for a television project while at high school. Impressed by the sets built for this television series she decided to achieve a career in the entertainment industry. She attended the University of California in Los Angeles and graduated with a degree in theater arts.

Since 2000, she has been working as a senior lecturer in Advanced Set Design and Art Direction at the American Film Institute.

Career[]

Film and television[]

Polizzi started her career as production assistant in the early 1980s when she worked on The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) and Nickel Mountain (1984, art direction by Nancy Mickelberry).

Her credits as set designer include films such as the music drama Great Balls of Fire! (1989, starring Winona Ryder), Gross Anatomy (1989), V.I. Warshawski (1991), Death Becomes Her (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Heart and Souls (1993, with Alfre Woodard), Forrest Gump (1994), Sgt. Bilko (1996), Independence Day (1996), EDtv (1999), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Bedtime Stories (2008, production design by Linda DeScenna), Date Night (2010), and J. Edgar (2011).

As assistant art director, Polizzi worked on the drama The Oasis (1984, starring Richard Cox, Ben Slack, and Mark Metcalf), Species (1995), Amistad (1997), Mercury Rising (1998), and The Time Machine (2002, screenplay by John Logan).

Among her credits as art director are The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), The X-Files (1998-1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Be Cool (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011, screenplay by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof, production design by Scott Chambliss, and set design by Karen Manthey), and Saving Mr. Banks (2013).

More recently, Polizzi worked as Art Director on the television movie Exit Strategy (2014, written and produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015).

Awards[]

Polizzi received her first ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in 1998 for her work on the drama Amistad. The following year she was part of the team which won the award in the category Television Series for her work on The X-Files. Beside her nomination for Into Darkness, Polizzi received four more nominations in 2001 for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in 2009 for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in 2012 for Cowboys & Aliens, and in 2014 for Saving Mr. Banks.

Other awards include a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1999 in the category Outstanding Art Direction for a Series for The X-Files, an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination in 2001 in the category Best Production Design for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and a Satellite Award nomination in the category Best Art Direction & Production Design in 2013 for her work on Saving Mr. Banks.

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