O'Hara, Karen

(Karen A. O'Hara)

PERSONAL

Career:

Set decorator and set designer. Also worked as second unit art director.

Awards, Honors:

Academy Award nomination (with Boris Leven), outstanding art direction or set decoration, 1987, for The Color of Money; Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding individual achievement in art direction for a miniseries or special, 1993, for Barbarians at the Gate.

CREDITS

Film Work; Set Decorator:

One More Saturday, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1986.

(As Karen A. O'Hara) The Color of Money, Buena Vista, 1986.

Vice Versa, Columbia, 1988.

Men Don't Leave, Warner Bros., 1990.

The Silence of the Lambs, Orion, 1991.

(As Karen A. O'Hara) True Identity, Buena Vista, 1991.

Lorenzo's Oil, Universal, 1992.

Philadelphia, TriStar, 1993.

The War, Universal, 1994.

The American President, Warner Bros/Columbia, 1995.

(As Karen A. O'Hara) Ghosts of Mississippi (also known as Ghosts of the Past), Columbia, 1996.

Beloved, Buena Vista, 1998.

For Love of the Game, MCA/Universal, 1999.

What Lies Beneath, DreamWorks, 2000.

Cast Away, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

Spider-Man, Columbia, 2002.

Red Dragon (also known as Roter Drache), Universal, 2002.

The Polar Express (animated; also released as The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience), Warner Bros., 2004.

Christmas with the Kranks, Columbia, 2004.

Bewitched, Columbia, 2005.

License to Wed, Warner Bros., 2007.

Film Work; Set Designer:

Code of Silence, Orion, 1985.

Television Set Decorator; Movies:

My Father, My Son, CBS, 1988.

Taken Away, CBS, 1989.

Out on the Edge, CBS, 1989.

Barbarians at the Gate, HBO, 1993.

Television Set Decorator; Miniseries:

Dream West, CBS, 1986.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Herself, Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of "The Silence of the Lambs," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists Home Entertainment, 2001.