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1 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 4 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y O N G O K L E E is a Production Designer based in Los Angeles. Among her projects, The Farewell was nominated at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, with Awkwafina winning for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy). Minari, starring Steven Yeun, earned six nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards and won Best Supporting Actress. Her J E S S G O N C H O R received his first Academy Award nomination and an Art Directors Guild nomination for his outstanding work on the Coen brothers' film, True Grit. His collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen extends across several acclaimed projects, including No Country for Old Men (for which he received an Art Directors Guild Award in Excellence in Production Design), A Serious Man (Art Directors Guild nomination), Burn After Reading, Inside Llewyn Davis (recipient of the Hamilton Behind the Scenes Award), Hail, Caesar! (earning him his second Academy Award nomination), and the 2018 release The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, marking his seventh collaboration with the Coen brothers. Gonchor's recent endeavors include serving as the Production Designer on Noah Baumbach's White Noise and John Krasinski's hugely successful, A Quiet Place Part II. Additionally, he designed Greta Gerwig's Little Women, which earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. His partnership with director Bennett Miller helped lead to his involvement in the Academy Award-nominated films Capote, Moneyball and Foxcatcher, where he also served as the 2nd unit director. Some additional credits that are a part of Gonchor's diverse portfolio include Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger, Sam Mendes' Away We Go, David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada and Ben Affleck's 1920s prohibition film, Live By Night. In recognition of his excellence, Gonchor received an ADG Award in 2015 for Best TV Design Short Format for Apple Music. He is a distinguished member of both AMPAS and DGA and has also directed numerous commercials. His journey into the world of film and art began in Mamaroneck High School's theater and lighting department, and he is currently based in Los Angeles, continuing to shape cinematic landscapes with his unparalleled talent and dedication. other US credits include Expats (Amazon limited series), starring Nicole Kidman, and Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls, among many others. She received her MFA in Production Design from the American Film Institute. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she began her career in the fashion industry as a buyer, merchandise and a fashion editor before transitioning to work as an Art Director. Her work in the Korean film industry includes top box-office hits such as Seven Days, starring Yunjin Kim (Lost, Mistresses). Currently, her projects take her across the United States, as well as to South Korea and other countries D E B O R A H R I L E Y starting her design study as an architecture student at Australia's University of Queensland in 1991 and going on to complete a stage design degree at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Deborah Riley moved relatively quickly into the Art Department of film. Starting on The Matrix (1999) as a Set Designer, she then worked on Anna and the King (1999) in Malaysia and returned to Sydney for Moulin Rouge! (2001). Deborah's first involvement in large-scale event art direction was the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Mentored by the Production Designer Brigitte Broch, Deborah worked as Broch's Art Director on Real Women Have Curves (2002) in Los Angeles, followed by Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003), which was filmed in Tennessee and New Mexico. The 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and the opening of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, kept her hand in large-scale special events. Deborah moved to Los Angeles in 2008, but it was not until 2013 that the move truly paid off. It was then that she was hired as the Production Designer of the fourth season of HBO's Game of Thrones, which finished production in 2018. She earned four consecutive Emmy Awards and three Art Directors Guild Awards and a BAFTA for her work on the epic medieval fantasy. Following time in design development at HBO and Lucasfilm, she has recently designed the Netflix science fiction television series, 3 Body Problem, based on the novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, released in March 2024.