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A Look at the Oscar Contenders for Production Design Jazz Tangcay, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail David Fincher’s “Mank” looks to be the frontrunner in the production design Oscar race. Production designer Donald Graham Burt and set designer Jan Pascale have each scored one previous nomination in this category. Burt won for 2008’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” However, “Mank” goes up against Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” for which production designer Nathan Crowley earned an Oscar nomination. Nolan is renowned for his in-camera effects and did not want to fake...

LOGIN How ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Production Designer Used a Steel Mill to Re-Create 1920s Chicago Oscar nominee Mark Ricker (“The Help,” “Julie & Julia”) talks to TheWrap about using an abandoned Pittsburgh factory for the acclaimed Netflix filmJoe McGovern | April 7, 2021 @ 12:11 PM Last Updated: April 10, 2021 @ 10:02 AM Netflix Production designer Mark Ricker’s first job in the industry was an internship in the art department for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Not the popular Hulu TV show, but the 1990 movie version of Margaret Atwood’s book. Three...

Dallas designer sees team get Oscar nod for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Robert Winn helped create the backdrop against which Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis starred. His team picked up a nomination for production design. Robert Winn worked on the team that received an Oscar nomination for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. It wasn’t his first encounter with the Academy Awards. Winn was part of the design team that won an Oscar for the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Winn helped simulate a recording stud...

Possible snub: “Sound of Metal” Possible surprise: “News of the World” Linda May, left, and Frances McDormand in “Nomadland.” (Searchlight Pictures) Analysis: The Producers Guild dropped its list of 10 best picture nominees on Monday. The Oscars is in its final year of its fluctuating slate that has always numbered either eight or nine movies. So that’s bad news for at least one PGA nominee, probably “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” as the academy owns a dispiriting history of ignoring comedies. The academy also hasn’t nominated an animated movie since abandoning its fixed l...

Share 'That video was amazing, it kicked me in the gut. I didn't expect it to,' he said, before admitting to feeling 'emotional.'  In addition to thanking the HCA, he spotlighted the 'people who have really done right' by him, even when he 'didn't have a place to live' as well as the friends who he has 'known and grown with.'  Trailblazer Award: Ahead of the 48-year-old actor superstar's acceptance speech, the virtual ceremony paid homage to his legendary career and extensive charity work Reciting an 'old adage,' the Ballers star reminded listeners: 'People will never forget how you make t...