Stephen Altman
Film-Maker

Stephen Altman is a production designer and art director best known for Gosford Park, Ray and Gross Pointe Blank films. Raised in Southern California, where he started working in the film industry in 1974 on his father’s film California Split followed by work on Nashville, as an apprentice editor and projectionist. On Buffalo Bill and the Indians he started working in the prop department and by 1979 was working as a Property Master, Set Decorator and Art Director.

His passion for film and career as a Production Designer commenced with the 1985 feature Fool for Love, spawning a successful familial collaboration with his father Robert Altman, which created the distinct visions in Vincent and Theo, The Player, Short Cuts, Ready to Wear, Kansas City, The Gingerbread Man, Cookie’s Fortune, DR T and the Women and Godford Park. Altman also designed Taylor Hackford’s hit biopic RAY;Kathryn Bigelow’s iconoclastic vampire western Near Dark; the retro chic of Brian Gibson’s Tina Turner biopic, What’s Love Got to do with It, George Armitage’s hit-man striving for normalcy in Gross Point Blank, Paramount’s hilarious Hot Rod, the pilot and permanent sets for Showtime’s hit series Shameless, Fox’s teen super-hero movie Chronicle and Draft Day starring Kevin Costner and directed by Ivan Rietman. Altman also earned AFI, BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Godford Park and an Emmy nomination for Georgia O’Keeffe.