Steve Saklad has enjoyed a 38-year career in feature films, designing such crowd favorites as “Juno”, “22 Jump Street”, “How to be Single”, and the acclaimed 2011 movie musical, “The Muppets”. Ten years later he designed another magical foray into movie musicals with the Lionsgate picture “Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar”, which the Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted Best Film Production Design of 2021.
He’s especially proud of his five collaborations with writer/director Jason Reitman that include the Oscar-nominated “Up in the Air”, which garnered Steve a nomination from the Art Directors Guild for Best Contemporary Film design of 2010. Countless 15-year-old boys are fans of his work for Sam Raimi on the horror escapade “Drag Me to Hell”. Of the four projects he has designed for writer/director Lee Daniels, Steve is proudest of the opulent world of hip-hop royalty he created for the Fox series “Empire”, a show that won him another nomination for best contemporary 1-hour series from the Art Directors Guild. His most recent credits include the lavish ABC series “Grand Hotel”, the live-action reboot feature of “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers” for Disney+, the beloved period picture “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” for Lionsgate, and Lee Daniels’ Netflix feature reinventing the exorcism film with “The Deliverance”.
