March 29, 2023
Academy Award nominee and Emmy-winning production designer James J. Murakami, whose work can be seen in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming J. Edgar, (his sixth collaboration with the noted director), will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s production designer of the year award at the festival’s Oct. 24 Hollywood Awards Gala. […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library launched its latest online research tool, the Production Art Database. The database contains records for more than 5,300 items from the library’s collection, including motion picture costume and production design drawings, animation art, storyboards and paintings. […]
In 1971, for the first time in history, an ordinary family welcomed television cameras into their home for the purpose of creating a program others would watch. This weekend, HBO‘s Cinema Verite explores the birth of reality television. […]
“None of us are television people,” production designer Mark Friedberg says of the crew of recently-concluded miniseries Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet as the titular character. Since it ran on HBO, whose slogan avers that their programming “is not TV,” it would seem be a perfect fit. […]
The art and craft of production design will be explored in detail during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-evening seminar series “Evolution or Revolution? Production Design in the 21st Century.” Sessions will be held on four consecutive Mondays beginning on April 25 and will be moderated by two of the Academy’s Art Directors Branch governors, production designer Jim Bissell (300, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) and set decorator Rosemary Brandenburg (Public Enemies, Transformers). […]
Set decorators Larry Dias and Doug Mowat have had a 15 year friendship but have never worked together professionally. That all changed with Inception – director Christopher Nolan’s masterful science-fiction thriller, a film vivid with imagination and stunning imagery. Inception has already received three BAFTAs for Best Sound, Best Visual Effects and Best Production Design. At the helm of the production design was Guy Hendrix Dyas, who invited Dias and Mowat onto the production to help complete the task of building a dream within a dream. […]
The production designers for Black Swan, The King’s Speech and Inception won the awards for best work on a 2010 feature film at the 15th annual Art Directors Guild Awards held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton. […]
Production designer Jess Gonchor does well with his Coen Bros. work – winning an award from the ADG for No Country for Old Men, grabbing a nomination from the same group for A Serious Man, and now finding himself Oscar nominated for his work on their adaptation of the Charles Portis’ novel True Grit. […]
For the thousands who work below the line in Hollywood, the ongoing goal is to become attached to prestige projects, which not only garner due attention, but also awards consideration. Very rarely, these choice projects come forth repeatedly, much less back-to-back. Case in point, production designer Robert Stromberg faced the enviable task of co-designing James Cameron’s Avatar with Rick Carter before being approached for the assignment of serving as sole designer of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. […]
Because Christopher Nolan‘s regular production designer was on another film, Guy Hendrix Dyas had the fortunate opportunity to work on the writer-director’s psychological thriller, Inception. […]