Overview
- He died in Paris at 93, Variety reports, citing a notice from THR critic Jordan Mintzer.
- He won the Academy Award for art direction on The Godfather Part II and later received the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
- His long partnership with Francis Ford Coppola spanned The Conversation, the Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, and other projects.
- He helped define films by creating full-scale worlds, working with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on techniques like colored smoke on Apocalypse Now.
- Survivors include his wife, French actress Aurore Clément, and his daughters Alison and Gina.