Best Production Design

'Gravity,' 'Her,' 'The Great Gatsby' win Art Directors Guild Awards

Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:40 pm · February 8th, 2014

The films respectively won the Fantasy, Contemporary and Period categories from the ADG, but that’s no guarantee any of them will win the Oscar.

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Oscar-nominated 'Gatsby' designer wasn't originally a fan of Fitzgerald's novel

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:17 am · January 21st, 2014

“The Great Gatsby” costume and production designer Catherine Martin picked up a pair of Oscar nominations last week. She talks to HitFix about realizing Baz Luhrmann’s lavish production in sets and clothes.

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Tech Support: Final predictions for Best Costume Design, Film Editing, Production Design and Sound

Posted by gerardkennedy · 3:54 pm · January 10th, 2014

We’re within a week of the big moment. Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday next week and we’ll find out which films are the dominant forces throughout the Academy’s various craft categories. Yesterday HitFix’s Gerard Kennedy began final Tech Support analysis of the field with the categories of Best Cinematography, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Original Song and Visual Effects. Today we round out the field with the rest.

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'Her,' 'American Hustle' and 'Gravity' among Art Directors Guild nominees

Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:00 am · January 9th, 2014

There are no significant surprises in this year’s list of Art Directors Guild nominees, which include the likes of “American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave” in the period category, and the more contemporary work of “Her” and “Gravity.”

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Tech Support: The production designers go it alone this year

Posted by gerardkennedy · 12:18 pm · October 31st, 2013

This year’s race for Best Production Design is a little different in that the costumers have split off and formed their own branch. How will that affect the race? From this vantage point, films like “12 Years a Slave,” “The Great Gatsby” and “Inside Llewyn Davis” seem formidable.

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Oscar Guide 2013: Best Production Design

Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:05 am · February 20th, 2013

‘Anna Karenina,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Life of Pi,’ ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Les Misérables’ square off.

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Tech Support: Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer on a 'risky' world in 'Anna Karenina'

Posted by gerardkennedy · 7:41 am · December 7th, 2012

Is all the world a stage? Well, in Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina,” the stage became the medium through which the director retold Leo Tolstoy’s classic story. An unusual choice fraught with risks? To be sure. An extraordinary amount of potential? Equally certain. But production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer were tasked with helping Wright’s vision come to fruition. We recently spoke to the duo about their work on the film.

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