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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 4 | P E R S P E C T I V E 2 9 G. & H. ELEVATION OF A PRODUCTION STILL OF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FOR CINDERELLA MAN. (2006) Wynn has a long- term collaborative relationship with Spike Lee. Starting with She's Gotta Have It, Wynn has designed School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, the epic film Malcolm X, Crooklyn, He Got Game, Kings of Comedy, and Inside Man. His most recent project with Spike was Da 5 Bloods, shot in Thailand and Vietnam. The film won the ADG Award for Best Contemporary Design. Other projects designed by Wynn include the drag queen classic comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, directed by Beeban Kidron, starring Patrick Swayne and Wesley Snipes. For actor-director Edward Norton, he designed Keeping the Faith. He designed Breach, a thriller written and directed by Billy Ray, All Good Things with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst; and The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which was written and directed by Peter Hedges. For Warner Bros., he designed Get Smart with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway and Grudge Match with Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone, both of which were directed by Pete Segal. Other credits include Alex Strangelove, an early gay love story for Netflix, The Sun Is Also a Star for MGM, Almost Christmas for Universal Pictures, and the most recent reboot of Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Tim Story. There have been some excellent projects in the last few years, including Hidden Figures, produced by Donna Gigliotti and directed by Ted Melfi, starring Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Costner. Hidden Figures won the Hollywood Film Award for Outstanding Production Design and won the Art Directors Guild Award for Best Production Design-Period Film. King Richard, directed by Reinaldo Green and starring Will Smith, was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Devotion, a Korean War epic about Jesse Brown was released this past year, as well as the comedy 80 for Brady, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno. E F G H