Dianne Wager

Dianne I. Wager worked as a set designer on , along with Robert Fechtman and Ron Wilkinson. Besides set designing, she also worked as an art director.
Wager began her Hollywood career as set designer on (1973), whose cast included Star Trek guest stars Don Keefer and John McLiam. Later in her career, she worked many times with set designer Donald B. Woodruff. They first worked together on the 1986 film Short Circuit, on which Wager was production designer and art director and Woodruff was assistant art director. Wager and Woodruff later worked together as art directors on (1990, featuring Daniel Davis, Boris Krutonog, and Gates McFadden) and 1995's Crimson Tide (featuring Scott Grimes). Mickey S. Michaels was a set decorator on both of these films. Wager and Woodruff also worked as art directors on (1991), collaborated on (1997, Wager as set designer with Les D. Gobruegge, Woodruff as art director; starring Jacqueline Kim, John Carroll Lynch, Robert Wisdom and James MacDonald), and were set designers on (1999, featuring James Cromwell, Paula Malcomson, and William Sadler).
Wager worked on several more films with her fellow Generations set designer Robert Fechtman. Wager was art director on (1993, starring Bebe Neuwirth; music by Jerry Goldsmith) and an assistant art director on (1995, featuring Ray Buktenica), with Fechtman working as set designer on both films. Wager and Fechtman later worked as set designers together on (2001, featuring star Linda Park). 
In addition, Wager worked with set decorator Marvin March on (1982), Two of a Kind (1983), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, featuring Jenette Goldstein, Sherman Howard, Mark Rolston, and Kenneth Tigar; edited by Stuart Baird), and the aforementioned For the Boys. Wager was an assistant art director on the first film and a set designer on the next two. Another Star Trek alum Wager has frequently worked with is Martha Johnston). She and Johnston were set designers on (1991, with James R. Bayliss (with whom Wager worked again on 1998's The Parent Trap), (2001, featuring Jack Shearer, Sarah Silverman, and music by John Debney). Johnston was also a set designer under assistant art director Wager for 1998's City of Angels.
Wager's other film set designing credits include Who'll Stop the Rain (1978, featuring Jonathan Banks, David Opatoshu, Gail Strickland, and Anthony Zerbe, with cinematography by Richard H. Kline and costumes by William Ware Theiss), (1984, working with and set designer Daniel E. Maltese; edited by John W. Wheeler), (1988, starring John Glover, Michael J. Pollard, Carol Kane, Wendie Malick and Alfre Woodard, with set decoration by Linda DeScenna), (1996, working with set designers Nancy Mickelberry and Christopher S. Nushawg), (1997, again working with Nushawg and Linda King; featuring Aaron Lustig and Clayton Rohner; music by John Debney), and, most recently, (2003). She was also a set dresser on (1982, starring Wil Wheaton and featuring cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti).
Wager was assistant art director under Star Trek: The Motion Picture production designer Harold Michelson on Spaceballs (1987, featuring Tim Russ and Dey Young). Her other assistant art direction credits include (1980, starring David Warner), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985, featuring Gerrit Graham, David L. Lander, Richard McGonagle, and David Ogden Stiers, with cinematography by Richard H. Kline and costumes by William Ware Theiss), and (1994, featuring Noble Willingham and David Paymer).
As art director on (1998), Wager received an Excellence in Production Design Award nomination from the Art Directors Guild. She shared the nomination with the film's production designer, Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, and supervising art director, William Arnold. She died in 2011 at the City of Hope National Medical Center. [
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