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Joseph Hiura is a set designer who worked under Scott Chambliss on Star Trek. 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, Paul Ozzimo, John Eaves, Bruce G. Smith, Karen Manthey, C. Scott Baker, 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, Hiura won an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in the same category for his work on Avatar which he shared with Robert Stromberg, Todd Cherniawsky, Dorian Bustamante, Ryan Church, James Clyne, Victor James Martinez, Tex Kadonaga, Richard F. Mays, Scott Herbertson, Paul Ozzimo, Tammy S. Lee, Gregory Jein, Jason Mahakian, Steven Messing, Karl J. Martin, C. Scott Baker, Robert Andrew Johnson, Sam Page, Daphne Yap, and Andrew Reeder.

He earned two more nominations in the same category in 2011 for his work on Tron: Legacy, shared with Robert Andrew Johnson, Andrew Reeder, Neville Page, Phil Saunders, and Lin MacDonald and in 2014 for his work on Oblivion shared with Todd Cherniawsky, Jeff Markwith, Robert Andrew Johnson, Gregory Jein, Igor Knezevic, Jim Martin, Richard Bennett, and Phillip Norwood.

Among his credits as set designer are The Mentalist (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, with Daren Dochterman, David E. Duncan, John Eaves, and Tim Flattery, Jeff Frost, Joey Genitempo, Robert Andrew Johnson, David Ladish, Steven Ladish, Jim Magdaleno, Jason Mahakian, Jeff Markwith, David J. Negron, Jr., Christopher S. Ross, and Andrew M. Siegel), Green Lantern (2011), The Thing (2011, with Richard Bennett, Robert Consing, John Dickenson, Marc Kuitenbrouwer, Rob McCallum, Jordu Schell, John Todd, and Jennifer Wood), Men in Black 3 (2012), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), the video game adaptation Ghost in the Shell (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017, starring Zoe Saldana), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the mystery thriller The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), and Alita: Battle Angel(2019).

Hiura worked as art director on the comic adaptations Justice League (2017) and Black Panther (2018, executive produced by Stan Lee). For Black Panther, Hiura received another ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in 2019 in the category Fantasy Film which he shared with C. Scott Baker, Dan Engle, Fabian Lacey, Raj Rihal, Constantine Sekeris, Tully Summers, and Henrik Tamm.

More recently, he worked as concept artist on Avatar 2 (2021) and Avatar 3 (2023), both starring Zoe Saldana and Michelle Yeoh.

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