Lauren Polizzi: Behind the Scenes Filmmaker Series

Art director Lauren Polizzi, whose credits include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Knocked Up, will be the next guest at the Palm Springs International Film Society’s "Behind the Scenes Filmmaker" series. Polizzi will be present on July 14 at 7 pm at the Rancho Mirage Public Library (71-100 Hwy. 111).
Polizzi received an Art Director’s Guild award and Emmy Nomination for her work on season six of The X-Files, an ADG and Oscar nomination for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, an ADG nomination for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and an ADG nomination as Asst. Art Director on Amistad.
She is currently working on Date Night, a [...]

by Andre Soares | July 8, 2009   
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Oscar 2008: Robert Boyle to Receive Honorary Oscar

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest

Production designer Robert Boyle, 98, a veteran with nearly 100 highly eclectic film credits — ranging from Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) to Portnoy’s Complaint (1972) — will receive an Honorary Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2008, "in recognition of one of cinema’s great careers in art direction."
Boyle, the subject of the 2000 Oscar-nominated documentary short The Man on Lincoln’s Nose, has earned four Academy Award nominations in the art direction category: North by Northwest (1959), Gaily, Gaily (1969), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and The Shootist (1976).
In addition to North by Northwest, he collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on several other projects. [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2007   
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Art Directors Guild Awards 2007

2007 Art Directors Guild Awards
2007 Art Directors Guild award nominations: January 18, 2007
2007 Art Directors Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 17, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Curse of the Golden Flower (top); Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale (middle); Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
Period Film
* CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER PD: HUO TINGXIAO
DREAMGIRLS PD: JOHN MYHRE
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS PD: HENRY BUMSTEAD
THE GOOD SHEPHERD PD: JEANNINE OPPEWALL
THE PRESTIGE PD: NATHAN CROWLEY
Fantasy Film
CHILDREN OF MEN PD: GEOFFREY KIRKLAND
* PAN’S LABYRINTH PD: EUGENIO CABALLERO
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST PD: RICK HEINRICHS
SUPERMAN RETURNS PD: GUY HENDRIX DYAS
V FOR VENDETTA PD: OWEN PATERSON
Contemporary Film
BABEL PD: BRIGETTE BROCH
* CASINO ROYALE [...]

by Andre Soares | February 17, 2007   
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