Sigourney Weaver & AVATAR Art Directors Photo: 2010 Oscar
Sigourney Weaver poses backstage with Achievement in Art Direction winners Kim Sinclair, Robert Stromberg and Rick Carter at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 7, 2010. James Cameron’s Avatar was the winner in the Best Art Direction category. The film was expected to win the Oscar; perhaps that’s why Sigourney Weaver, one of its stars, handed out the Oscar.
Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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by Zac Gille | March 10, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Kim Sinclair, Photos, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Sigourney Weaver
AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER, SHERLOCK HOLMES: Art Directors Guild Award Winners
Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang in Avatar (top); Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (middle); Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes (bottom)
Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Sherlock Holmes were the motion picture winners at the Art Directors Guild Awards announced Saturday (Feb. 13) night at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The awards took place before an audience of more than 700 guests, including guild members, industry executives, studio heads and the media. ADG Chairman Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony with Paula Poundstone serving as host.
The individual winners in the motion picture categories were Karl Juliusson for The Hurt Locker (contemporary film), Rick Carter and Robert [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 14, 2010
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Tags: Art Directors Guild Awards, Avatar, Film Awards, Grey Gardens, Karl Juliusson, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Sarah Greenwood, Sherlock Holmes, The Hurt Locker, Warren Beatty
Rick Carter to Receive Production Designer of the Year Award
T-Rex in Jurassic Park; Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her
Academy Award-nominated Production Designer Rick Carter, whose work will be featured in James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar, will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the festival’s October 26 Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Carter’s Oscar nomination was for Robert Zemeckis‘ Forrest Gump (1994). Additionally, he received two nominations from the Art Directors Guild for a couple of his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Amistad (1997) and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).
Among Carter’s other screen credits are Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), Munich (2005), and War of the Worlds (2005), plus The Goonies [...]
by Deborah Arthur | August 21, 2009
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Tags: Death Becomes Her, Film Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, Jurassic Park, Rick Carter