Luke Freeborn

Luke Freeborn is an art director, production designer, set designer, and model builder working primarily on Hollywood feature films. He was one of the many art directors who worked on 's under the supervision of Keith Cunningham.
Freeborn began his career in the Art Department as a model and production assistant on (2000, starring Jason Alexander and featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Max Grodénchik, Doug Jones and Norman Lloyd. 
Freeborn's first project as a set designer was (2002, starring / regular Jeri Ryan. His set design credits have since included such big budget films as (2001, featuring Pat Healy, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, John Pyper-Ferguson, Steve Rankin, Raphael Sbarge, Cary-Hiroyuki, and Michael Shamus Wiles), (2001, featuring Erick Avari, Freda Foh Shen, Cary-Hiroyuki, Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, and David Warner), (2003, starring Bruce Davison, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Patrick Stewart), and (2004, starring Roger R. Cross and Karl Urban).
He also did uncredited set design work for , featuring Patrick Kilpatrick and Neal McDonough. He again worked with Spielberg as a set designer (this time credited) on (2004, featuring Jude Ciccolella, Michael Nouri, and Zoë Saldana).
Before working together on Star Trek, Freeborn and Keith Cunningham collaborated on the films Van Helsing and Hostage; the latter film featured Jimmy Bennett, Tina Lifford, and Glenn Morshower. Freeborn was a set designer on both of these films.
As a production designer, Freeborn worked on the 2000 independent film Yup Yup Man (starring David Bowe) and the 2002 short film Simplicity. Most recently, he was production designer on the drama film Take.
Freeborn was an assistant art director on , for which he won an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild in 2004. He then served as assistant art director on (having previously designed sets for the first film, 2003's xXx), Poseidon, (2006, featuring Michael Dorn), (2007, featuring Jim Beaver), and (2007, featuring Spencer Garrett, Pasha Lychnikoff, Brian Markinson, Rachel Nichols, and Faran Tahir).
Star Trek was Freeborn's second film as a lead art director. The first was Paramount Pictures' .
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Category:Art directors
Category:ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominees