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C. Scott Baker is a set designer who worked as lead set designer on Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams.

This work earned him an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film in 2010 which he shared with shared with Scott Chambliss, Dennis Bradford, Curt Beech, Luke Freeborn, Beat Frutiger, Gary Kosko, Aaron Haye, Keith P. Cunningham, Clint Schultz, Ryan Church, James Clyne, Joseph Hiura, John Eaves, Bruce G. Smith, Karen Manthey, Paul Ozzimo, Dawn Brown, Kevin Cross, Andrea Dopaso, Jeff Frost, Scott Herbertson, Anne Porter, Billy Hunter, Harry E. Otto, Andrew Reeder, and Jane Wuu.

Also in 2010, Baker won an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Fantasy Film for his work on the science fiction film Avatar which he shared with Robert Stromberg, Ryan Church, Todd Cherniawsky, James Clyne, Tex Kadonaga, Victor Martinez, Steven Messing, Andrew Reeder, Karl J. Martin, Richard F. Mays, Gregory Jein, Daphne Yap, Joseph Hiura, Tammy S. Lee, Paul Ozzimo, and Scott Herbertson.

He earned two more ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations – in 2011 in the category Fantasy Film for his work on Alice in Wonderland, shared with Robert Stromberg, Todd Cherniawsky, Kasra Farahani, Scott Herbertson, Richard F. Mays, Tammy S. Lee, Jeff Markwith, Anne Porter, Jim Martin, Steven Messing, Daphne Yap, Jason Mahakian, Jeff Frost, and Gregory Jein and in 2012 in the category Contemporary Film for his work on the comedy Bridesmaids, shared with Keith P. Cunningham.

Baker won two more ADG Awards in the category Fantasy Film – in 2017 for his work on the science fiction drama Passengers, shared with Luke Freeborn, Gregory S. Hooper, Steven M. Saylor, Trey Shaffer, Daren Dochterman, Tully Summers, Laurent Ben-Mimoun, Igor Knezevic, Richard K. Buoen, Ray Harvie, Robert Andrew Johnson, Allen Coulter, Noelle King, Scott Herbertson, Karl J. Martin, and Randall D. Wilkins and in 2018 for his work on the comic adaptation Black Panther, shared with Joseph Hiura, Dan Engle, Fabian Lacey, Raj Rihal, Constantine Sekeris, Tully Summers, and Henrik Tamm.

Among his other credits as set designer are Shadrach (1998), Black Dog (1998), Ambushed (1998), Muppets from Space (1999), The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999), 28 Days (2000), Bruno (2000), Waterproof (2000), The Replacements (2000), The Gift (2000), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Domestic Disturbance (2001), Gods and Generals (2003), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Bewitched (2005), The Island (2005), Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006), The Good German (2006), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Nancy Drew (2007), the fantasy film Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth), Men in Black 3 (2012), After Earth (2013), White House Down (2013), Ender's Game (2013), Blackhat (2015), the drama Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), Terminator Genisys (2015), The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), The Dark Tower (2017, starring Idris Elba), and Geostorm (2017).

More recently, Baker worked as set designer on Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Gemini Man (2019), and Top Gun: Maverick (2020).

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