Scott Chambliss
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Scott Chambliss is a Hollywood film and television production designer. His most recent designing project was the next Star Trek feature – titled simply Star Trek – for producer and director J.J. Abrams. Chambliss had previously worked with Abrams on the hit TV shows Felicity and Alias as well as the 2006 Paramount Pictures release Mission: Impossible III.
Chambliss began his career as an assistant art director on the films Scenes from a Mall (1991) and Malcolm X (1992, featuring Albert Hall, Tim Kelleher, James MacDonald, Christopher Plummer, Kate Vernon, and Craig Wasson) before becoming production designer on such films as The Celluloid Closet (1995, featuring Whoopi Goldberg) and Krippendorf's Tribe (1998, featuring Stephen Root and David Ogden Stiers) and the TV shows Gideon's Crossing and Brothers & Sisters. He first worked with Abrams on Felicity in 2001.
Chambliss has received four Excellence in Production Design Award nominations from the Art Directors Guild and three Emmy Award nominations for his work on Alias, winning one from each (an Emmy in 2002 and an Excellence in Production Design Award in 2003). His Emmy Award win and nominations were shared with set decorator Karen Manthey, who also worked with Chambliss on Star Trek (as well as Krippendorf's Tribe and M:i:III).
