Jack Fisk
Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1945) is an American production designer and director.
As a production designer, he is known for his collaborations with Terrence Malick, designing all of his first eight films including Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), and The Tree of Life (2011). His other credits include Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Carrie (1976), Eraserhead (1977), Heart Beat (1980), The Straight Story (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001), Water for Elephants (2011), and The Master (2012). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for There Will Be Blood (2007), The Revenant (2015), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Fisk made his directorial debut with Raggedy Man (1981) and went on to direct the films Violets Are Blue (1986), Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990), Final Verdict (1991), and two episodes of the television series On the Air (1992).[1]
Career
Fisk was art director on Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), in which his wife, Sissy Spacek, played the title role. He frequently collaborates with directors Terrence Malick and David Lynch (whom he has known since childhood). His production design and art director credits include all of Malick's first eight feature films and Lynch's The Straight Story (1999) and Mulholland Drive (2001). He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction three times: for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood[2], for Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant,[3] and for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.[4]
Fisk appeared in Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) as the Man in the Planet, and the film's credits give "special thanks" to him and to Sissy Spacek (who reputedly held the slates between takes).[citation needed]
Fisk directed Spacek in the films Raggedy Man[5] and Violets Are Blue with Kevin Kline.[6]
Personal life
Fisk met his wife, Spacek, while working on Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, where she portrayed the aloof and distant version of Caril Ann Fugate. They married on April 12, 1974. They have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born 1982), also an actress, and Madison Fisk (born 1988), a painter.
Filmography
Year | Title | Production role | Director |
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1971 | The Peace Killers | Gaffer | Douglas Schwartz |
Angels Hard as They Come | Art director | Joe Viola | |
1972 | Cool Breeze | Barry Pollack | |
1973 | Messiah of Evil | Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz | |
Terminal Island | Stephanie Rothman | ||
The Slams | Jonathan Kaplan | ||
Badlands | Terrence Malick | ||
1974 | Phantom of the Paradise | Production designer | Brian De Palma |
1975 | Darktown Strutters | William Witney | |
1976 | Vigilante Force | Art director | George Armitage |
Carrie | Brian De Palma | ||
1977 | Death Game | Production designer | Peter S. Traynor |
Eraserhead | Actor | David Lynch | |
1978 | Days of Heaven | Production designer | Terrence Malick |
Movie Movie | Stanley Donen | ||
1980 | Heart Beat | John Byrum | |
1981 | Raggedy Man | Director | Himself |
1986 | Violets Are Blue | ||
1990 | Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? | ||
1991 | Final Verdict | ||
1992 | On the Air | Director (2 episodes) | David Lynch and Mark Frost (creators) |
1998 | The Thin Red Line | Art director | Terrence Malick |
1999 | The Straight Story | Production designer | David Lynch |
2001 | Mulholland Drive | ||
2005 | The New World | Terrence Malick | |
2007 | The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | |
There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | ||
2011 | Water for Elephants | Francis Lawrence | |
The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | ||
2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | |
To the Wonder | Terrence Malick | ||
2015 | Knight of Cups | ||
The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | ||
2017 | Song to Song | Terrence Malick | |
2022 | Causeway | Lila Neugebauer | |
2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese |
References
- ^ Canby, Vincent (August 17, 1990). "Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will" (1990) Review/Film; Sibling Rivalries, Old and New". The New York Times.
- ^ "2008 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ "88th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
- ^ "2024 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (September 18, 1981). "SISSY SPACEK IN 'RAGGEDY MAN,' A VIOLENT MELODRAMA". The New York Times.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (April 11, 1986). "SCREEN: 'VIOLETS ARE BLUE'". The New York Times.
External links
- Jack Fisk at IMDb
- Eraserhead Interview
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- Raggedy Man (1981)
- Violets Are Blue (1986)
- Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990)
- Final Verdict (1991)
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