Biography
Richard Sylbert was an American production designer and art director whose career spanned five decades. He worked on more than 40 films, including Chinatown (1974), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Sylbert trained at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and served in the Korean War. He won two Academy Awards for production design, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Dick Tracy (1990), and was nominated four other times. His credits also include Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Graduate (1967), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Carlito's Way (1993) and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). He collaborated frequently with directors such as Mike Nichols and Roman Polanski. Sylbert died in 2002.
