2021 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN (September)
There usually isn’t much room for subtlety or nuance in the Oscar for Production Design so don’t expect Frances McDormand’s fall leaves plates from Nomadland... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION and COSTUME DESIGN (December)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is storming through the guild nominations and it continues its hold of the top spots in both categories this... Read More
Interview: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ production designer François Audouy
Production designer François Audouy has a way with monsters. His previous production designs include Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Wolverine, Dracula Untold, and Logan and... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (November)
Sorry to this Irishman. I keep having this feeling that The Irishman is not going to perform as well as most think it will. After... Read More
LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’ – What if David Lean directed ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ starring Laurel and Hardy?
Writer/director Chris Butler’s vision for MISSING LINK challenged LAIKA’s award-winning team of artists to produce the biggest and most complicated stop-motion animated film in history... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Ahead of its release, Ad Astra was feeling very much like it was taking an identical trajectory to 2018’s First Man and indeed, it has... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (September)
The luxuriant production design (and a big part of the film’s $90M budget) bumps Sony/Columbia’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood up one to the top... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (August)
Production Design and Costume Design are two fantastically intertwined categories. The last 20 years have given us so many examples of films winning both in... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN
I’ve sort of hammered away both in print and on podcasts that Production Design and Costume Design go hand in hand and in fact, they... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (December)
Nothing is going to unseat The Favourite from likely double wins in these two categories (that have often gone hand in hand). Lots of green... Read More
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