Richard Heinrichs (born 1954) is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in The Watcher in the Woods, Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel and Vincent to later work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and '. He also worked on Frankenweenie. He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for Sleepy Hollow at the 72nd Academy Awards, and received further nominations for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and ' (2006).
He also contributed conceptional designs for Tim Burton's failed Superman Lives project.
Heinrichs grew up in Baltimore. He graduated from Boston University in 1976 with a degree in fine arts. Heinrichs then joined California Institute of the Arts, where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his. The two initially collaborated on The Fox and the Hound at Disney.