Captivated by movies since childhood, Greg Weimerskirch began his film career as an apprentice at George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic. Inspired by his experiences at ILM, he went on to earn a graduate degree in Production Design from the American Film Institute. Trained as both an architect and urban designer, Greg brings a distinctive blend of research, 3D modeling, sketching, and painting to the stories he’s fortunate to help create.

 

Greg has collaborated with many of today’s leading directors, including Ron Howard, Ethan Coen, Richard Linklater, David Fincher, Gus Van Sant, and Denzel Washington. Most recently, he was part of the Emmy Award–winning team behind the HBO series The Pitt, directed by John Wells.

 

As a Production Designer, Greg created multiple eras for the Apple Studios series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, based on the novel by Walter Mosley and starring (and produced by) Samuel L. Jackson. The story spans nearly nine decades and required a range of period environments, including the construction of a meticulously realized 1930s Mississippi town.

 

As an Art Director, Greg’s work was featured in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers. His detailed recreation of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood earned an Art Directors Guild nomination for Outstanding Production Design.

 

His additional film credits include Hillbilly Elegy (Ron Howard), Fences (Denzel Washington), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater), Mindhunter (David Fincher), The Fault in Our Stars, Southpaw, Jack Reacher, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, among many others.

 

Greg was one of thirty filmmakers inducted into the Designers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018. A 1997 graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory, he received the Mary Pickford Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Production Design. Before his film career, he worked in architecture and urban design, managing projects throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.

 

He has been nominated for multiple Art Directors Guild Awards, including A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Fences, and the Paramount television series Seven Days. In 2016, he received the American Film Institute’s Cultural Legacy Award for his work on Fences.

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