Image archivist Phil Szostak was embedded with The Force Awakens
art department as a conceptual researcher and archivist from
December 2012 through the end of production, and has worked in
conjunction with Star Wars art departments for six years at
Lucasfilm. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York,
Szostak worked for Wild Brain Animation on the Disney Channel
series Higglytown Heroes, and he ran the JAK Films Art Department
on Skywalker Ranch for over three years before joining the
narrative design team on LucasArts’ Star Wars: 1313. He resides in
San Francisco.
Production designer Rick Carter has won two Academy Awards: one for
his design of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, and one for his
otherworldly production design on James Cameron’s mega-hit Avatar.
Carter received his first Oscar nomination for his work on Robert
Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump and an additional nomination for Steve
Spielberg’s historic epic War Horse. Carter served as co-production
designer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He lives in Los Angeles.
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