James "Jim" Dultz (born16 January1953; age 72) is an art director and production designer who worked as assistant art director on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In 1996, Dultz won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program for an episode of Muppets Tonight. In 1997 he received a second nomination in this category for another episode of Muppets Tonight, hosted by Jason Alexander. In 1999, Dultz won an Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Feature Film for his work on What Dreams May Come.
Dultz started to work as property master in the art department in the late 1970s with credits such as White House Madness (1975), Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), and Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, with Eugene P. Rizzardi).
Beside working as assistant art director on Back to the Future Part II (1989), Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990-1993), and Last Action Hero (1993), Dultz was the art director on Take This Job and Shove It (1981), The Last American Virgin (1982), Promised Land (1987), Overboard (1987), Flatliners (1990), Soapdish (1991), Tall Tale (1995, with set designer Greg Papalia), Tank Girl (1995, starring Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell, with Ann Cusack, Reg E. Cathey, James Hong, Iggy Pop, Ann Magnuson, Doug Jones, Jeff Kober and Charles Lucia), Muppets Tonight (1996), and What Dreams May Come (1998, starring Robin Williams).
His credits as production designer include Youngblood (1978), the television comedy Konrad (1985), Black Tie Affair (1993), Wolf (1994), Muppets Tonight (1997-98), the drama Nailed (2001), Beyond the City Limits (2001), the television comedy The Santa Trap (2002), Team America: World Police (2004), Lucky 13 (2005), the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, and the television comedy Not Another High School Show (2007). In addition, Dultz worked as graphic designer on Waitress (2007, starring Keri Russell, production design by Ramsey Avery and art direction by Jason Baldwin Stewart) and as puppet supervisor on Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008).
