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Monday, February 13, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Production Design

The nominees are:

Stuart Craig & Anna Pinnock, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Oscar History:

* Stuart Craig - 3 wins for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Gandhi (1982), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and The English Patient (1996); 7 previous nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for The Elephant Man (1980), The Mission (1988), Chaplin (1992), and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), and Best Art Direction for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

* Anna Pinnock - 1 win for Best Production Design for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); 4 previous nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Gosford Park (2001), for Best Art Direction for The Golden Compass (2007), and for Best Production Design for Life of Pi (2012) and Into the Woods (2014)


Guy Hendrix Dyas & Gene Serdena, Passengers

Oscar History:

* Guy Hendrix Dyas - 1 previous nomination for Best Art Direction for Inception (2010)

* Gene Serdena - 1 previous nomination for Best Production Design for Her (2013)


Jess Gonchor & Nancy Haigh, Hail Caesar!

Oscar History:

* Jess Gonchor - 1 previous nomination for Best Art Direction for True Grit

* Nancy Haigh - 1 win for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Bugsy (1991); 5 previous nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Barton Fink (1991), Forrest Gump (1994), and Road to Perdition (2002), and for Best Art Direction for Dreamgirls (2006) and True Grit (2010)


Patrice Vermette & Paul Hotte, Arrival

Oscar History:

* Patrice Vermette - 1 previous nomination for Best Art Direction for The Young Victoria (2009)

* Paul Hotte - first nomination


David Wasco & Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, La La Land

Oscar History:

* David Wasco - first nomination

* Sandy Reynolds-Wasco - first nomination


What I've Seen: Hail Caesar!, Arrival, La La Land

My Pick: La La Land

Not Nominated, But Should Have Been: Allied

Predicted Winner: La La Land

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