Feb 9, 2017
As assistant art director, he worked with Production
Designer Richard Sylbert on The Cotton
Club. He also art directed or assisted like Beat
Street, The Money Pit, and Brighton
Beach Memoirs.
Wynn has a long-term relationship with Spike Lee and
has designed over ten films for him including She's Gotta
Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm
X, Crooklyn, and Inside
Man.
Wynn is the first African-American Production Designer
to become a member of the Art Directors Guild and the first African
American nominated for the Art Directors
Guild Award for his design work on Tim
Burton's film, Mars
Attacks!.
Some of Wynn's production design work over the years
includes A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella
Man for Ron Howard, A Bronx
Tale for Robert DeNiro, Wag The
Dog, Keeping The Faith, All Good
Things, and Breach.
More recently, Wynn worked on Almost
Christmas, the Oscar nominated Hidden
Figures, and War on Everyone.