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Oliver Scholl

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Oliver Scholl (born 1964) is a German production designer. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he studied industrial design at the Hochschule Pforzheim and, during his student years, began illustrating for the German science-fiction series Perry Rhodan. After this early work, he moved into motion picture design, aided by early development work for the Stargate project (1994) for director Roland Emmerich, which helped him transition into film production.  Scholl relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 and made his American production-design debut on Moon 44 (1990) and then Independence Day (1996). His career has since spanned large-scale Hollywood features, especially in the science-fiction and action genres, working on films such as Godzilla (1998), The Time Machine (2002), Jumper (2008), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Suicide Squad (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and Venom (2018). He has also worked on the series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), for which he served as a production designer, alongside Lucasfilm's Doug Chiang.

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Film Production

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
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
2018  Venom
2021  Venom: Let There Be Carnage

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TV Production

Production Design:
2024  Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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