Question: The art director and production designer Kim Sinclair won the Oscar for this American epic science fiction film directed by whom?

Context articles: Chris Gorak
Dan Ouellette
Ryo Sugimoto
Art department
Avatar 2
Kim Sinclair
Rick Carter
Avatar 3
Rajat Poddar
Avatar (2009 film)

Chris Gorak is an American film director who started as an art director and production designer.
 He directed the 2006 film "Right at Your Door" and the 2011 film "The Darkest Hour".
 Gorak began working in the film industry in the 1990s as an art director.
 In the 2000s, he worked on several films as production designer before becoming a film director.
Dan Ouellette is an American artist, illustrator, director, author and production designer.
 He began drawing as a child inspired by Escher, Dalí and Moebius.
 His drawings usually begin with very rough sketches and are intended to capture a moment of tension or eroticism.
 His art pushes his audience into areas where people feel less than comfortable, stating that the "US which is so puritanical, our bodies are usually a great source of anxiety and fear".
 As a production designer, he has designed over fifteen independent feature films in the past decade as well as numerous commercials and music videos.
 He is best known as the director for the music videos "Blue" and "Looking Glass" by The Birthday Massacre, receiving over 4 million combined views on YouTube, and has directed music videos for the industrial band Android Lust.
 He has done production design for many films over the years including "Chasing Sleep" starring Jeff Daniels.
 Dan's artwork is strongly themed around surrealism and mostly done in pencil.
 As an artist he has exhibited widely.
 He has been published in numerous anthology art books including "Bio-Mannerism" which also features work by H.R. Giger and Beksinski, and he has been featured in magazines internationally.
 David Bowie commented while looking at Dan's art that he has noticed a strong influence of science fiction on contemporary art.
 Giger saw a different aspect, saying simply "Very bony."
 He grew to adore the cinema of Fellini and later to marvel at Lynch's "Eraserhead".
 Rather than pursue a formal education in the fine arts he chose to study the craft of film making and after college he became a production designer working on feature films in New York City starting with his work as a production designer for Hal Hartley in 1990 with Trust and then, in 1992, with Simple Men.
Ryo Sugimoto Born in 1976.
 Sugimoto worked on number of films as an art assistant under Production Designer Mitsuo Harada and Yohei Taneda.
 Sugimoto joined NOUVELLE VAGUE Co.,Ltd .
 in 2005, has worked on films such as "AEGIS"and "Tokyo Tower" as a set designer and was the art director on "BABEL"(Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu) which won the Art Excellence in Production Design Award(2006) from the Art Directors Guild.
 Sugimoto was the first Production Designer for Junji Sakamoto "Chameleon"(2007), and is the Production designer for "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" directed by Isabel Coixet.
 Sugimoto also provides designs for commercials, music videos and interiors,
Art department in movie terms means the section of a production's crew concerned with visual artistry.
 Working under the supervision of the production designer and/or art director, the art department is responsible for arranging the overall "look" of the film (i.e. modern/high-tech, rustic, Victorian, etc.) as desired by the film director.
 Individual positions within this department include: production designer, art director, assistant art director, storyboard artist, concept artist, draftsman, art department coordinator, set decorator, set dresser, makeup artist, painter, property master, leadman, swing gang, production buyer, Film sculptor, and property assistant.
Avatar 2 is an upcoming 2020 American epic science fiction film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by James Cameron, and the first of four planned sequels to his 2009 film "Avatar".
 Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau, with Josh Friedman originally announced as sole co-writer; it was later announced that Cameron, Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno took a part in the writing process of all sequels before being attributed separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits unclear.
 Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, C. C. H. Pounder, and Matt Gerald are all expected to return.
Kim Sinclair (born July 10, 1954) is an Academy Award winning art director and production designer from New Zealand.
 He won the Oscar during the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for the film "Avatar".
 He shared it with Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg.
Rick Carter (born 1950) is an American production designer and art director.
 He is known for his work in the film "Forrest Gump", which earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in "Amistad" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence".
 Other films include "Cast Away", "War of the Worlds", "What Lies Beneath", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", and "Back to the Future Part II" and "Part III".
 Many of the films that he has worked on are directed by Steven Spielberg or Robert Zemeckis.
 For his part in the Art Direction of "Avatar", he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Production Design alongside Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair.
 In 2013, Carter won his second Academy Award, for production design on Steven Spielberg's biopic, "Lincoln".
Avatar 3 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by James Cameron.
 It is the second of four planned sequels to his 2009 film "Avatar", and will be a follow-up to 2020's "Avatar 2".
 Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau, with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver originally announced as his co-writers; it was later announced that Cameron, Jaffa, Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno took a part in the writing process of all sequels before being attributed separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits unclear.
 Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, C. C. H. Pounder, and Matt Gerald are all expected to return from the first two movies.
Rajat Poddar is a Production Designer, Art Director from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
 He started his career in 1995 in Mumbai, when he started working in the film industry as an assistant art director.
 After a couple of years of apprenticeship, he started on his own as an art director with a television show called Khiladi.
 After having done several television serials as a production designer and art director, he got his first feature film Saaya, that released in the year 2002.
Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver.
 The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor.
 The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora.
 The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body with the mind of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora.