Academy Award for Best Production Design
Barrett moved into production design on music videos (winning MTV awards for his work on "Tonight, Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins and "The New Pollution" by Beck), and worked on videos with Spike Jonze, leading to their first film collaboration on "Being John Malkovich". Together with set decorator Gene Serdena, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film "Her" (2013).