Dean Tavoularis

Dean Tavoularis (May 18, 1932 – April 22 or 23, 2026) was an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart, and Bonnie and Clyde. He worked with Francis Ford Coppola on thirteen features, and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for The Godfather Part II from five nominations. He studied architecture and painting at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) and landed a job at the Disney Studios first as an in-betweener in the animation department, and later as a storyboard artist. He afterwards worked as an assistant art director at Columbia, Universal, Warner Bros. and MGM, and his feature work began with Inside Daisy Clover (1965). or 23, 2026.