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Keith P. Cunningham (born 3 May 1967; age 56) was the Supervising Art Director on Star Trek.

Cunningham began his career as the art department coordinator on Species (1995, featuring Jordan Lund, David Selburg, William Utay and Herta Ware in the cast). His art department team on this film included Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Star Trek: First Contact illustrator Ricardo Delgado and veteran Star Trek foreman Tom Talley. Cunningham then worked as a set designer and assistant art director on several films before becoming a full-fledged art director. His early set design work could be seen in such films as The Baby-Sitters Club (featuring Bruce Davison, Scarlett Pomers, and Harris Yulin), A Time to Kill (1996, featuring Ashley Judd and Kurtwood Smith), and That Thing You Do! (featuring Bill Cobbs, Clint Howard, Holmes R. Osborne, and Sean Whalen).

From 1998 through 2002, Cunningham frequently worked with director Steven Soderbergh. Cunningham was a set designer on Out of Sight (1998), assistant art director on Erin Brockovich (2000, featuring William Lucking, Scarlett Pomers, Tracey Walter, and Wade Andrew Williams), supervising art director on Traffic (2000). Cunningham was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his work on this film. He worked with Soderbergh again on Ocean's Eleven (2001, for which he was nominated for an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Director's Guild) and Solaris (2002, with John Cho and Michael Ensign).

Cunningham's other art direction credits include M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, Van Helsing (2004), and Rent (2005).

Star Trek is the fourth film on which Cunningham has worked with set designer Dawn Brown. The two first worked together as set designers on 1997's Batman & Robin. Cunningham has since supervised Brown on the aforementioned Ocean's Eleven and Solaris and, most recently, Zodiac.

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