He has worked on multiple films including The Joy Luck Club, Dangerous Minds, and Donnie Brasco, as well as with David Fincher on Zodiac in 2007.
[1] In 2008, he designed the sets for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 2009,[2] an Art Directors Guild Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction,[3] and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design,[4] along with receiving a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Art Direction & Production Design.
[5] In 2020, Burt won an Academy Award for David Fincher's black-and-white biographical drama film Mank.
[6] Burt is a 1976 graduate of Independence (Kansas) High School and studied art at the University of Arizona.
Before employment in the film industry, he worked as a night janitor in a small scene shop in Phoenix.