Art

Paul Sylbert

Born April 16, 1928 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died November 19, 2016 · aged 88

Paul Sylbert (April 16, 1928 – November 19, 2016) was an American Academy Award-winning production designer, art director, and set designer who directed on occasion. Born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a dressmaker, Sylbert grew up in the borough's Flatbush neighborhood and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1946. He fought in the Korean War and attended the Tyler School of Art at Temp…

Known For

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · 1975

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory · 1997

Conspiracy Theory

MovieActionDrama

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Sliver

MovieDramaThriller

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities · 1991

Career Opportunities

MovieRomanceComedy

Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer · 1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home · 1995

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

MovieFamilyAdventure

Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides · 1991

The Prince of Tides

MovieDramaRomance

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.

Filmography

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · 1975

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Production Design

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Production Design

Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory · 1997

Conspiracy Theory

MovieActionDrama

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Production Design

Sliver

MovieDramaThriller

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

Production Design

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities · 1991

Career Opportunities

MovieRomanceComedy

Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.

Production Design

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer · 1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Production Design

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home · 1995

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

MovieFamilyAdventure

Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

Production Design

The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides · 1991

The Prince of Tides

MovieDramaRomance

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.

Production Design

Milk Money

Milk Money · 1994

MovieComedyRomance

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

Production Design

Hardcore

Hardcore · 1979

MovieDramaCrime

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Production Design

The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool · 1975

The Drowning Pool

MovieThrillerMystery

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

Production Design

Nighthawks

Nighthawks · 1981

MovieActionCrime

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.

Story

The Journey of Natty Gann

The Journey of Natty Gann · 1985

The Journey of Natty Gann

MovieAdventureFamily

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

Production Design

Gorky Park

Gorky Park · 1983

MovieThrillerCrime

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

Production Design

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait · 1978

Heaven Can Wait

MovieFantasyComedy

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

Production Design

The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist · 1987

The Pick-up Artist

MovieRomanceComedy

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

Production Design

To End All Wars

To End All Wars · 2001

To End All Wars

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

Production Design

Wolfen

MovieHorrorThriller

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

Production Design

Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues · 1988

MovieComedyDrama

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.

Production Design

The Wrong Man

The Wrong Man · 1956

MovieCrimeDrama

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Art Direction

Rush

MovieCrimeDrama

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

Production Design

Mikey and Nicky

Mikey and Nicky · 1976

Mikey and Nicky

MovieCrimeDrama

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

Production Design

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd · 1957

A Face in the Crowd

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

Art Direction

The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village · 1984

The Pope of Greenwich Village

MovieActionComedy

Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150,000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.

Production Design

The Defenders

The Defenders · 1961

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Director