Richard F. Mays

Richard F. Mays is an Art Director and Set Designer who worked as Digital Set Designer on . This uncredited work earned him an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film which she shared with Scott Chambliss, Ramsey Avery, James Clyne, Lauren Polizzi, Kasra Farahani, Michael E. Goldman, Harry E. Otto, Andrew E.W. Murdock, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Steve Christensen, Andrea Dopaso, John Eaves, Nathan Schroeder, Ryan Church, Christopher Ross, Victor Martinez, Steven Messing, Karl Strahlendorf, John Chichester, Tex Kadonaga, Kevin Cross, Andrew Reeder, Anne Porter, Jane Wuu, Natasha Gerasimova, Allen Coulter, Karl Martin, Scott Schneider, Lorrie Campbell, Easton Smith, Tammy Lee, Tim Croshaw, Clint Schultz, and Karen Manthey.
Mays was previously nominated for an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award three times – in 2001 in the category Period or Fantasy Film for his work on The Patriot (2000), in 2009 in the category Fantasy Film for the Marvel feature Iron Man (2008) which he shared with Michael E. Goldman, Kevin Cross, Anne Porter, and Tony Bohorquez, and in 2011 in the category Fantasy Film for Alice in Wonderland (2010), shared with Robert Stromberg, Todd Cherniawski, Kasra Farahani, Scott Herbertson, C. Scott Baker, Tamma Lee, Jeff Markwith, Anne Porter, Jim Martin, Daphne Yap, Jeff Frost, and Gregory Jein.
In 2015, Mays earned another nomination in the category Fantasy Film for his work on the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) which he shared with Steve Christensen, Beat Frutiger, Gary Kosko, Randall D. Wilkins, John Eaves, Christopher Ross, Tony Bohorquez, and Richard Bennett.
Mays has started his career in the art department for feature films in the late 1980s when he worked as assistant art director and property master on the documentary George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head (1986, with Roger Eschbacher and Chuck McSorley).
He then worked as set designer on (1988), (1990), (1990, with Louis Mann), (1991, starring Alfre Woodard and Tina Lifford), (1996, with Nathan Crowley, Kurt V. Hulett, Joseph Musso, and Dragon Dronet), (1998, with James Cromwell and Denise Crosby), and (1999), as assistant art director on (1992), (1993), and (1993), and as art director on (1989), (1990), (1995, with Donald B. Woodruff), (1998, starring Christian Slater), (1998), (1998), and (1999, starring Famke Janssen).
Further credits as art director include (2000) and (2003), (2001), (2003), (2005), and (2008). He also worked as assistant art director on (2004).
Among his work as set designer and later digital set designer are (2001), (2002), (2002), (2004), (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, and Rebecca Romijn, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher, and John Pyper-Ferguson), (2007) and (2009), (2009), (2012), (2012), (2013), (2014), (2014), (2015), (2016), (2016), (2016), (2016), and (2016).
Mays also worked as digital set designer on (2017, with Zoë Saldana), (2017), and Captain Marvel (2019, with Kenneth Mitchell) and (2020).
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