William Ladd Skinner

William Ladd Skinner is an art director and set designer who worked as set designer on .
Skinner graduated from William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1967 and earned his BFA in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut in 1972.
He started to work as set designer in the 1970s on projects such as (1974, with Tim O'Connor, Lawrence Pressman, and Eugene Roche), (1974, makeup by Monty Westmore), (1977, working with Alan Sims and Richard McKenzie), (1977, with Marc Lawrence and Karole Selmon), (1977), (1978, with Geneviève Bujold, Vaughn Armstrong, and Mary Mascari), (1978), and (1979, working with Dan Gluck).
In the 1980s, Skinner worked as set designer on (1980, cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti and set decoration by Mickey S. Michaels), (1980, working with Nancy Mickelberry), (1980), (1981), (1981), (1982, set decoration by Linda DeScenna and Leslie Frankenheimer and costume design by Michael Kaplan), (1984, cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti and set decoration by John M. Dwyer), (1984, working with Syd Mead, Greg Papalia, and Gregory Pickrell), (1984), (1986), and (1989, working with Kurt V. Hulett).
Skinner also worked as set decorator on (1985, music by Jerry Goldsmith), as art director on (1985, film editing by John W. Wheeler and casting by Amanda Mackey Johnson), (1986), and (1987, casting by Ron Surma), and as supervising art director on (1989, starring Peter Weller and Meg Foster and music by Jerry Goldsmith).
In the 1990s, he worked as art director on (1990, film editing by William Hoy), (1991), (1992), (1992, starring Bill Cobbs and Mike Starr), (1994), (1994), (1995), (1996, starring Vanessa Williams), (1997), and (1998, casting by April Webster and art direction by Robert Woodruff).
In addition, Skinner worked as production designer on (1994, music by Basil Poledouris), as set designer on (1991), and as Los Angeles unit art director on (1997).
Further credits as art director in the 2000s include (2001), (2002), (2002), (2003, music by Brian Tyler), (2003), (2006) and (2007), (2006), (2007), (2007, screenplay and produced by Akiva Goldsman, co-produced by Tracy Tormé, executive produced by Dana Goldberg, and costume design by Michael Kaplan), and (2008).
Skinner also worked as production designer on (2000, art direction by Robert Woodruff) and on (2003, casting by Mary Jo Slater). For his work as art director on in 2009, Skinner earned a Satellite Award nomination in the category Best Art Direction & Production Design in 2009 and an Art Director's Guild Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Period Film in 2010. He shared both nominations with production designer Nathan Crowley. Skinner previously earned Art Director's Guild Excellence in Production Design Award nominations in the category Fantasy Film in 2004, 2007, and 2008 for his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Among his fellow nominees are Robert Woodruff and Donald B. Woodruff.
More recent work as art director include (2010), (2010, cinematography by Claudio Miranda), (2012, art direction by Aaron Haye), (2012, executive produced by Stan Lee, music by James Horner, and art direction by Michael E. Goldman), (2013), (2014), the pilot episodes of Salem (2014, starring Kevin Tighe and created, written, and executive produced by Brannon Braga) and Scorpion (2014, directed and executive produced by Justin Lin, executive produced by Heather Kadin, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, co-produced by April Nocifora, music by Brian Tyler, editing by Dylan Highsmith and Steven Sprung, and costume design by Sanja Milkovic Hays), (2016), and (2016, art direction by Dan Hermansen).
Skinner worked as production designer on (2013) and as set designer on (2016) and the comedy The House (2017, working with Chris Arnold).
Most recently, Skinner worked as art director and set designer on (2018).
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