Art Directors Honor Terry Gilliam
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Awards, Newsstand, Peter Jackson
My love of cinema originally came about through my love of production design, particularly for science fiction and fantasy films. As I grew up, one of my dream careers was art director, and some my early heroes were Dante Ferretti and Bo Welch. Naturally, then, a lot of my favorite filmmakers have been those who display creative art direction in their movies. Terry Gilliam has always been at the top of my list.Other fans of Gilliam will agree with me that no other living director is more deserving of recognition by the Art Directors Guild. In fact, I'm surprised that he wasn't the first choice to receive the guild's Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award when it was originally given in 1998 (to Norman Jewison instead). Other filmmakers that I expect to see honored in the future include Tim Burton, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro.
Gilliam will receive the award at the Art Director's Guild Awards on February 17, when the guild also names the winners of its prizes for excellence in production design for 2006. Like other guild awards, the ADG's honors recognize distinct categories for its field. Nominated films are separated into three groups: period piece; contemporary; and fantasy (you may remember these are the same categories for the Costume Designer Guild Awards).
The guild's film nominees, with my picks highlighted in bold, are as follows:
Period Film:
- Curse of the Golden Flower (Huo Tinxiao)
- Dreamgirls (John Myhre)
- Flags of Our Fathers (Henry Bumstead)
- The Good Shepherd (Jeannine Oppewall)
- The Prestige (Nathan Crowley)
- Children of Men (Geoffrey Kirkland)
- Pan's Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Rick Heinrichs)
- Superman Returns (Guy Hendrix Dyas)
- V for Vendetta (Owen Paterson)
- Babel (Brigette Broch)
- Casino Royale (Peter Lamont)
- The Da Vinci Code (Allan Cameron)
- The Departed (Kristi Zea)
- The Queen (Alan MacDonald)
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4-19-2007 @ 4:05PM
Feral said...
I just wanted to let Mr. Gilliam know that Tideland really resonated with me. Jeliza-Rose and I apparently shared a lot of internal processing of the baggage modern society laid on us. A friend at our local Movie Gallery said that he couldn't get beyond the fact that EVERYONE in the movie was crazy. I said, "Not Jeliza-Rose. She was meant to be the sane one." Now I think he's worried about me. LOL!
Anyway, I think Mr. Gilliam's and my inner girls are a lot alike. I loved the movie. Keep up the good work.
Love,
Feral
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7-10-2007 @ 7:05PM
Rebecca said...
Tideland is truly a beautiful work of art. May I suggest you get together with PS2 and make a wonderfully vivid and intricate game of it? Even your website is wonderful. I found it to be a very interesting juxtaposition of beauty and the beast. After watching the movie, I felt as though my mind remained in this world for several hours after watching the movie. It would be wonderful to capture this in a video game where the world itself would be interactive. You have a wonderfully creative mind.
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