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3 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 4 Wynn just finished his first television series, a project for Paramount+ and Taylor Sheridan Productions called Lawman: Bass Reeves. It's about Bass Reeves, the first Black US deputy marshall in Indian territory in the 1870s. The project stars David Oyelowo and Donald Sutherland. Wynn has been a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, in NY for forty years, and is the first African American designer to become a member of the ADG and the first African American to be nominated for an ADG Award for his design work on Mars Attacks! For the last six years, Wynn has been on the Board of Governors at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and for the last three years, he was elected as a Vice President on the Academy Board. A D G L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T AWA R D W Y N N P. T H O M A S And finally, Wynn was recently honored with a five-week, ten-film retrospective of his Production Design work at MOMA…the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After this recognition, Wynn feels he can finally call himself…an artist. A. MO' BETTER BLUES (1990) SHOW CURTAIN. B. NIGHTCLUB SKETCH FOR MO' BETTER BLUES. (1990) C. HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) PRODUCTION STILL. D. HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) WORKROOM. DIGITAL MODEL. E. HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) WORKROOM. SET PHOTO. A B C D E