Jess Gonchor

Jess Gonchor's passion for art began in Mamaroneck High School's theater and lighting department. He studied technical theater at the State University of New York at Brockport, and began his career in off-off-Broadway theaters before moving into film and eventually production design.

Jess Gonchor received an Academy Award® nomination and an Art Directors Guild nomination for his work on the Coen brothers' True Grit.  He also collaborated with the Coen brothers on No Country for Old Men, for which he won an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design; and A Serious Man, Burn After Reading and Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received Art Directors Guild nominations.

Other feature films include Bennett Miller's Academy Award®-nominated Capote and Academy Award®-nominated Moneyball; Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger; Sam Mendes' Away We Go; and David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada. Gonchor collaborated on Miller's Foxcatcher where he served as the second unit director as well as production designer.

Gonchor is a member of AMPAS, DGA and ADG, and has directed numerous commercials.

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