Production Design
How Production Designers Turned Time Back 50 Years for ‘Chicago 7’
Awards Daily spoke to Production Designer Shane Valentino and Set Decorator Andrew Baseman on the complexities inherent in making 1969...
Daniel T. Dorrance On Designing A Refuge in Billie Holiday’s Dressing Rooms
An artist's personal space is vital in getting into the right frame of mind. In Lee Daniels' The United States...
‘Mank’ Production Designer Donald Graham Burt On Recreating 1930s Hollywood, Hearst Castle
David Fincher set Mank in a world spanning 1930s and 1940s Hollywood. To tell the story of the events and...
How Gavin Bocquet Made Netflix’s ‘Jingle Jangle’ A Tale of Two Toy Shops
Netflix's Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey feels both familiar but utterly modern—even though it's a period piece. Director David E....
‘Bill & Ted’ Production Designer Melanie Jones Expresses Death’s Midlife Crisis With Mid-Century Modern Architecture
As with most of us, production designer Melanie Jones was a fan of the original Bill & Ted movies - Bill & Ted's...
Jessica Kender Transports Viewers to the ’90s with Little Fires Everywhere’s Production Design
Little Fires Everywhere transports viewers back to the mid '90s. You get to experience the music, the hair styles, and...
Misty Buckley Creates A Brand New World for Ariel to Discover
Disney's The Little Mermaid came out when I was 6 years old, so the film is something I grew up...
‘Barkskins’ Production Designer Isabelle Guay On Recreating Canada’s Past in Vivid Detail
National Geographic's new limited series Barkskins completely immerses its viewers into the late 1600s world of New France (or as we...
‘Run This Town’ Production Designer Chris Crane Realizes Journalism, Political Clash
(Photo: IMDB) Ricky Tollman's Run This Town is a fictionalized account of Toronto mayor Rob Ford's final...
Production Designer Bob Shaw on Creating the Look of ‘The Irishman’
Bob Shaw has been working on film, television, and in theater for nearly 30 years as an art director and...
Recreating the 1966 Le Mans Race Track for ‘Ford v Ferrari’
Production designer François Audouy was not a car person before he started working on James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari. Audouy, however, considers...
Mark Tildesley on Recreating the Sistine Chapel For Netflix’s ‘The Two Popes’
When you watch The Two Popes in a theater or, starting today, on Netflix (which you absolutely should), you may think stars Jonathan...
‘Missing Link’ Deserves to Be a Frontrunner for Animated Feature, and Here’s Why
Joey Moser talks to director Chris Butler, production designer Nelson Lowry, and visual effects supervisor Steve Emerson about Laika's masterpiece,...
Interview: Ra Vincent On Creating The Vibrant World of ‘JoJo Rabbit’ Amidst World War II
Production designer Ra Vincent first heard about Taika Waititi's plan to film Jojo Rabbit back in 2013 (Waititi started working...
Production Designer Nelson Coates on Building the Young Mansion and Creating a $40 million Wedding in Crazy Rich Asians
When Nelson Coates was commissioned by Jon M. Chu to work on Crazy Rich Asians, the production designer who has...
Production Designer Hannah Beachler On Building The World of Wakanda
When Hannah Beachler was tasked with building Black Panther's environment, she knew it would be a mighty undertaking, one that...
Emmy FYC: The Crafts of ‘Transparent’
Interview: Production Designer Barry Robison Takes Us into the Trenches of Hacksaw Ridge
Desmond Doss was the first conscientious objector who went into battle. Serving during the Battle of Okinawa, he refused to...
2016’s The Hollywood Musical Three Ways
Although the focus has been mostly on Damien Chazelle's La La Land for its investment in reviving the musical -...
Interview: Ruth De Jong on How the Town of Cape Ann Gave Manchester by the Sea Its Authenticity
Manchester By The Sea is a masterful film, a devastating and heartbreaking drama. When his older brother dies, Lee Chandler...
