About

Known credits:
47
Birthday:
1955-02-14
Place of birth:
New York City, New York, USA
Website:
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George DeTitta Jr.

Overview

The first son of George & June DeTitta; George DeTitta Jr. has a long film legacy stretching to the beginning of film. George's father, George DeTitta Sr, also worked as a set decorator, retiring in 2004. Some of George's father's credits include Three Days of the Condor, The Exorcist, State of Grace & Fatal Attraction. George's grandfather, also George, or affectionately known to the family as Pop, entered the film industry in the early 1920's , first as an electrician & then moving into sound when sound became a craft in the late 1920's. His early credits include working with the Marx Brothers & the director, D W Griffith. George's grandfather finished his career as a soundman in the mid 1960's, working on the Julie Andrews movie, Star. George Jr's career started in 1977; before starting to work as a set decorator in 1980. He worked alongside his father George on the Paramount film Ragtime. The film was nominated for multiple Oscars the following year, including one for art direction. George's second Oscar nomination came a few years later for the 1988 film, Radio Days. George also would share in the Emmy for best Production Design awarded to the Mike Nichols show, Angels in America (HBO) in 2004. The Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design in the contemporary field award was awarded in 2015 for the film, Birdman which George decorated. In 2020, the HBO show, Succession, earned George his second Emmy nomination. In 2022, Succession/Season 3, was nominated for Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary one hour show by the Art Directors Guild. In 2022, George earned his third Prime Time Emmy nomination for the episode "Too Much Birthday" for the HBO show, Succession. In 2023, Succession was once again nominated for Excellence in Production Design for a Creative Emmy for the Season 4 episode of " America Decides" & the Creative Emmy ceremony was postponed until January 2024 due to the writers/actor strike. Succession was awarded numerous Emmy's for their 4th and final season.

Known for

Art

2015 Ricki and the Flash Art Set Decoration 58
Average
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Art Set Decoration 74
Good
2012 Premium Rush Art Set Decoration 62
Fair
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Art Set Decoration 67
Fair
2010 The Other Guys Art Set Decoration 62
Fair
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
2009 The Lovely Bones Art Set Decoration 69
Fair
2009 Duplicity Art Set Decoration 59
Average
2008 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
2007 I Am Legend Art Set Decoration 71
Good
2007 Enchanted Art Set Decoration 67
Fair
2007 Michael Clayton Art Set Decoration 65
Fair
2006 Just My Luck Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
2006 Inside Man Art Set Decoration 72
Good
2006 The Pink Panther Art Set Decoration 58
Average
2005 Munich Art Set Decoration 69
Fair
2005 Stay Art Set Decoration 64
Fair
2003 Angels in America Art Set Decoration 74
Good
2002 The Emperor's Club Art Set Decoration 64
Fair
2001 Riding in Cars with Boys Art Set Decoration 63
Fair
2000 Shaft Art Set Decoration 59
Average
1999 Music of the Heart Art Set Decoration 61
Fair
1999 The Out-of-Towners Art Set Decoration 58
Average
1998 Stepmom Art Set Decoration 68
Fair
1996 The Preacher's Wife Art Set Decoration 58
Average
1995 Sabrina Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
1994 Mixed Nuts Art Set Decoration 57
Average
1994 It Could Happen to You Art Set Decoration 63
Fair
1993 The Good Son Art Set Decoration 64
Fair
1992 Scent of a Woman Art Set Decoration 75
Good
1992 A League of Their Own Art Set Decoration 68
Fair
1991 Shadows and Fog Art Set Decoration 62
Fair
1990 Awakenings Art Set Decoration 74
Good
1989 She-Devil Art Set Decoration 58
Average
1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil Art Set Decoration 64
Fair
1989 New York Stories Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
1988 Working Girl Art Set Decoration 63
Fair
1988 Another Woman Art Set Decoration 61
Fair
1988 Big Art Set Decoration 70
Good
1988 Bright Lights, Big City Art Set Decoration 58
Average
1987 September Art Set Decoration 59
Average
1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs Art Set Decoration 59
Average
1986 The Money Pit Art Set Dresser 63
Fair
1985 Desperately Seeking Susan Art Set Decoration 59
Average
1984 Beat Street Art Set Decoration 60
Fair
1983 Trading Places Art Set Decoration 70
Good
1982 Amityville II: The Possession Art Set Decoration 57
Average