A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Oliver Scholl is a Germany born production designer and artist. An avid reader of science-fiction and non-fiction, Oliver's interest in the merging of art, technology and story began in his teens and continues to inform his work today. At the age of 15, Oliver's first of many illustrations were published in the German science fiction series, Perry Rhodan. He studied industrial design while continuing illustration for advertising and publishing. Early development work for film director Roland Emmerich's Stargate (1994) led to Oliver's transition into the motion picture industry and his relocation to Los Angeles in 1991, where Independence Day (1996) marked Scholl's first american production design credit.
Conceptual Design:
1994 Stargate
Conceptual Illustrator:
1994 Stargate
2012 Battleship
Production Design:
1990 Moon 44
1994 Stargate
1996 Independence Day
1998 Godzilla
2002 The Time Machine
2008 Jumper
2012 Battleship
2014 Edge of Tomorrow
2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2016 Suicide Squad
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Venom
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Production Illustrator:
1990 Moon 44
1994 Stargate
1996 Independence Day
1998 Godzilla
2002 The Time Machine
2003 Bad Boys II
2004 The Polar Express
2008 Jumper
2012 Battleship
2014 Edge of Tomorrow
2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2016 Suicide Squad
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Venom
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Production Design:
2024 Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.