TAAVO SOODOR - production designer

Taavo Soodor earned Genie nominations for Best Achievement in Art Direction for Jeremy Podeswa's THE FIVE SENSES; Thom Fitzgerald's award-winning THE HANGING GARDEN; and John Fawcett's THE BOY'S CLUB as well as a Gemini nomination for Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Dramatic Program or Series for the CBS television drama HAVEN, directed by John Gray. He designed for the features THE BIG HIT produced by John Woo starring Mark Wahlberg, Paramount's STEPPIN' UP/SAVE THE LAST DANCE II, SPINNING BORIS directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and the multi-award winning feature OWNING MAHOWNY, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as well as NARC, starring Ray Liotta.

He has served as Production Designer for the television movies OPEN HOUSE, A VERY MARRIED CHRISTMAS, BLESSINGS and THE MAN WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS starring Jason Alexander; A&E's THE BIG HEIST, starring Donald Sutherland, and the remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, starring Mira Sorvino; Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON for CBS; ABC's TRUMP UNAUTHORIZED and LABOR OF LOVE; USA Network's SILENT ECHOES; the pilot TOTAL RECALL 2070; and Turner Broadcasting's ANATOMY OF LOVE.