Chris Cornwell

Chris Cornwell has a career that spans 20 years, and he has served as both production designer and art director for a number of feature films and television projects. Cornwell got his start in the world of art direction as an assistant working on such films as Wedlock, Phenomenon, Teaching Mrs. Tingle and The Kid.

As art director, Cornwell worked on a number of box-office hits, including Footloose (2011), The Ides of March, The Roommate, Burlesque, Takers, Death at a Funeral, Armored, Obsessed, Quarantine, Prom Night, Gone Baby Gone, Vacancy, Crank, Stick It, The Dukes of Hazzard, 13 Going on 30, Daddy Day Care, America's Sweethearts, Driven, Lost Souls, Instinct, A Smile Like Yours, House Arrest, Black Sheep, Unstrung Heroes, While You Were Sleeping and Where's Marlowe?

Cornwell more recently served as production designer for director Tim Story on Universal Picture's Ride Along, which starred Kevin Hart and Ice Cube. Cornwell designed Sony's The Wedding Ringer, directed by Jeremy Garelick. He also designed Screen Gems' Think Like a Man and Think Like a Man Too. Other more recent films include Screen Gems' No Good Deed with Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba, and Battle of the Year, which starred Chris Brown and Josh Holloway. Prior to these films, Cornwell designed the feature film Cursed and the television series Glory Days and Wasteland also for creator Williamson.

Cornwell also took a part on Richie Keen's Fist Fight. Before that, he designed Jon Cassar's When the Bough Breaks. In 2014, Cornwell Production designed the TV pilot Stalker for NBC and Kevin Williamson.

For television, Cornwell served as art director for Deep Red, Curacao, Cooperstown, Seduction: Three Tales From the 'Inner Sanctum', The Lounge People, Wildflower and Just Say Julie.

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