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Jack Fisk
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Fisk with daughters Schuyler Fisk and Madison Fisk at a ceremony for Sissy Spacek to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in August 2011
Born (1945-12-19) December 19, 1945 (age 78)
Occupation(s)Set designer, art director, film director
Years active1971–present
Spouse
(m. 1974)
Children2, including Schuyler Fisk

Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1945) is an American production designer and director.

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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

YearTitleProduction roleDirector
1971The Peace KillersGaffer Douglas Schwartz
Angels Hard as They Come Art directorJoe 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 designerPeter S. Traynor
Eraserhead Actor David Lynch
1978 Days of Heaven Production designerTerrence Malick
Movie Movie Stanley Donen
1980 Heart Beat John Byrum
1981 Raggedy Man DirectorHimself
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 directorTerrence Malick
1999 The Straight Story Production designerDavid 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

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