Dianne Wager


Dianne Wager was an art director, production designer, and set designer for motion pictures and television.
Wager was born in Milwaukee in 1931. She moved to Los Angeles and studied set design and set illustration at the Chouinard Art Institute. In 1964, she was hired by Twentieth Century Fox as a set designer on the television series, Peyton Place. While at Fox, she also worked on the Batman television series and the feature film Fantastic Voyage.
Through the 1970s, Wager worked with Oscar-winning production designer Dale Hennesy. When Hennesy died in 1981 during the production of Annie. She received ADG Award nominations for art direction on Pleasantville and for set design on Changeling.
Wager died in 2011, and in 2016, she was posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.

Selected works

Peyton Place Fantastic Voyage Batman Gaily, Gaily Sleeper King Kong Who'll Stop the Rain The Competition The Island Wholly Moses! Annie The Man Who Loved Women Two of a Kind The Buddy System Unfaithfully Yours Rhinestone Unfaithfully Yours The Man with One Red Shoe Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling Short Circuit Project X Spaceballs Scrooged Bert Rigby, You're a Fool Lethal Weapon 2 Havana The Hunt for Red October The Butcher's Wife Delirious For the Boys Sneakers Malice Renaissance Man Malice Star Trek Generations Crimson Tide Heat One Fine Day The Relic Volcano Bulworth Pleasantville The Parent Trap The Siege Galaxy Quest The Green Mile Heartbreakers Jurassic Park III The Adventures of Pluto Nash Stuart Little 2 Something's Gotta Give John Adams