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Anton Furst was a distinguished production designer who won an Oscar for designing the Batmobile and the noirish nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton`s Batman (1989).

Trained at the Royal College of Art, London, he gained high praise for his work on Neil Jordan`s The Company of Wolves (1984). Furst went on to create convincing Vietnam War settings, without leaving England, for Stanley Kubrick`s Full Metal Jacket (1987), and in 1991 designed the themes for the Planet Hollywood restaurant in New York. His final credited film was Awakenings (1990).

He had dated Beverly D`Angelo and after they broke up Furst committed suicide in 1991.