Alex McDowell
Highest Rated: 89% Minority Report (2002)
Lowest Rated: 14% The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Birthday: Apr 1, 1955
Birthplace: Borneo, Malaysia
This production designer seemingly has taken up the baton dropped by the late Anton Furst: McDowell's dark, eerie and entertainingly foreboding sets sometimes get better reviews than their films. The boyish-looking Brit opened his own graphics design firm in the late 1970s after studying at London's Central College of Art. He began his career designing album covers and posters before segueing to creating sets for music videos directed by Tim Pope and finding wider audiences with TV commercials (Revlon, Pepsi, Nike) and music videos for performers like ZZ Top, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson. He gained particular notice for his starkly beautiful design of the David Fincher-directed video "Vogue" (1990) for Madonna.
Filmography
Movies
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56% | 75% | Man of Steel | Production Design | $291.0M | 2013 |
29% | 42% | Upside Down | Production Design | $102.1K | 2012 |
37% | 51% | In Time | Production Design | $37.6M | 2011 |
65% | 71% | Watchmen | Production Design | $107.5M | 2009 |
50% | 53% | Bee Movie | Production Design | $126.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Bee Movie | Production Design | - | 2007 |
34% | 52% | Breaking and Entering | Production Design | $929.0K | 2006 |
84% | 77% | Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | Production Design | $53.4M | 2005 |
83% | 51% | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Production Design | $206.5M | 2005 |
61% | 73% | The Terminal | Production Design | $77.0M | 2004 |
89% | 80% | Minority Report | Production Design | $132.0M | 2002 |
15% | 42% | The Affair of the Necklace | Production Design | $430.3K | 2001 |
80% | 96% | Fight Club | Production Design | $37.0M | 1999 |
50% | 89% | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Production Design | $10.6M | 1998 |
14% | 40% | The Crow: City of Angels | Production Design | $17.9M | 1996 |
84% | 90% | The Crow | Production Design | $47.3M | 1994 |
38% | 31% | The Lawnmower Man | Production Design | - | 1992 |