- Production Designer and Storyboard Artist
John F. Davis' career as a professional designer is varied and extensive. Since coming to New York City in 1979 from the Yale School of Drama, he has been a Production Designer, Visual Consultant, Storyboard Artist and Illustrator. Davis won two Emmy Awards in 1988 for designing the broadcast sets for the Summer Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul for NBC Sports; he has also been a political media consultant on presidential, senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns and in 1993 produced and directed a 3-hour nightly literacy show for the State of Mississippi (where he is from originally). In 1982, he designed all the News and Sports sets for ABC and has designed two independent films as well as creating concepts, storyboards and set designs for numerous music videos, industrials, and television commercials since the mid-80s.
As a Storyboard Artist and Illustrator for over 70 major motion pictures, Davis has designed camera shots and scenes for directors such as Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, Robert De Niro, Baz Luhrmann, Lasse Hallstrom, Jonathan Demme, M. Night Shyamalan and Barry Sonnenfeld, among many others, with an initial collaboration in 1983 with Jim Henson and Frank Oz. In 2005, Davis won the Best In Show Award for the Society of Illustrators' first "The Art of the Storyboard" exhibition, an international competition with over 300 entries worldwide.
He has been a guest instructor teaching Storyboarding and Production Design at various universities since 1985, including in the Graduate Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the School of Visual Arts, New York Film Academy and Bronx Community College, and in 2012, 2013 and 2016 at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.
Davis is married to June Bateman, photography dealer and curator. They live in Yonkers now, content with a major Hudson River view and being "Palisadians."- IMDb Mini Biography By: John F. Davis
- SpouseJune Bateman(October 7, 1995 - present)
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