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Dallas designer sees team get Oscar nod for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Robert Winn helped create the backdrop against which Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis starred. His team picked up a nomination for production design. Robert Winn worked on the team that received an Oscar nomination for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. It wasn’t his first encounter with the Academy Awards. Winn was part of the design team that won an Oscar for the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Winn helped simulate a recording stud...

As Netflix’s new movie ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ demonstrates, Dallas’ Robert H. Winn is a gifted scenic artist An East Texas native, he has worked on Hollywood projects since the 1980s and has wowed Dallas theater crowds with a remarkable range of clever set designs. Robert H. Winn is in the business of creating worlds. They happen to be imaginary worlds, seen on the silver screen, and since he entered the movie business in the 1980s, Winn’s worlds have been populated by the likes of Robin Williams and Drew Barrymore, Kevin Costner and Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks and Robert Duvall.