Anton Furst is 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 the work he did on Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves. Furst went on to create Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) and in 1991 designed the themes for the Planet Hollywood restaurant in New York. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide