Biography
William Sandell is an American production designer. Born on 9 August 1950 in Los Angeles, he began in films as a set dresser and assistant art director on exploitation pictures such as Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). His first production design credit was The Promise (1979).
Sandell has worked extensively with directors including Paul Verhoeven on RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990), and Wolfgang Petersen on Air Force One (1997) and The Perfect Storm (2000). He designed the prehistoric town of Bedrock for The Flintstones (1994) and recreated a nineteenth-century Royal Navy frigate for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
For the latter he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.
