Hannah Beachler worked on the 2015 Rocky film Creed, the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, and most recently has become known for the film Moonlight, Beyonce's 2016 TV special and visual album Lemonade, and for her Afrofuturist design direction on the film Black Panther, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Production Design.
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Hannah Beachler was the first African-American to be nominated in the same category, as well as the first to win.
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Hannah Beachler first collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on 2013's Fruitvale Station; this led to Coogler contacting her to work as his production designer on Creed, and later to their working together on Black Panther.
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Creed, Hannah Beachler watched the first four Rocky films for inspiration.
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Hannah Beachler was responsible for designing Front Street Gym that appears prominently in the film.
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Hannah Beachler visited a number of gyms across the United States, but particularly in Philadelphia where the film series is based, in order to get a good idea of what the set should look like.
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Hannah Beachler designed the entire gym including the professionally sized boxing ring, and her plans ensured that cameras could get a 360-degree view of everything.
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Outdoor scenes in Miles Ahead, Hannah Beachler searched through numerous photograph archives to accurately capture the scenes in New York City from the 1950s to the 1970s, but ultimately took inspiration from some silent film shot from a car window, that was posted on YouTube decades later.
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Hannah Beachler used no stage shots in the entire film; the set of Davis' home was a disused church in Cincinnati that was gutted and renovated to resemble a multi-layer house including a basement recording studio.
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Hannah Beachler is the first-ever female production designer of a Marvel film, and was the second person hired for it behind director Ryan Coogler.
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Hannah Beachler was lead curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, which opened in 2021.
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