Rick Heinrichs

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in The Watcher in the Woods, Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel and Vincent to later work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Nutcracker: The Motion Picture. He also worked on Frankenweenie. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (now called the Academy Award for Best Production Design) for Sleepy Hollow (1999) and received further nominations for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).

He also contributed conceptional designs for Tim Burton's failed Superman Lives project.

Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (in Valencia, California), he started to work at Disney where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his.

• The Watcher in the Woods (1980) (alien designer: Other World sequence)
• Vincent (1982) (producer, additional designer, sculptor)
• Hansel and Gretel (1982) (producer, stop-motion animator)
• Frankenweenie (1984) (associate producer)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) (stop motion animator: Greenlite)
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) (animated effect supervisor)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Jar" (1986) (special effects)
• Faerie Tale Theatre: "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" (1986) (models and effects)
• Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986) (model and miniatures supervisor)
• Beetlejuice (1988) (visual effects consultant)
• Ghostbusters II (1989) (set designer)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (set designer)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990) (set designer)
• To the Moon, Alice (1991) (art director)
• Soapdish (1991) (assistant art director)
• The Fisher King (1991) (set designer)
• Batman Returns (1992) (art director)
• Last Action Hero (1993) (art director)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (visual consultant)
• Tall Tale (1995) (art director)
• Fargo (1996) (production designer)
• The Big Lebowski (1998) (production designer)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999) (production designer, won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction)
• Bedazzled (2000) (production designer)
• Planet of the Apes (2001) (production designer)
• Hulk (2003) (production designer)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) (production designer)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) (production designer)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) (production designer)
• The Wolfman (2010) (production designer)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) (production designer)
• Dark Shadows (2012) (production designer)
• Big Eyes (2014) (production designer)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) (production designer)
• Dumbo (2019) (production designer)