SSN Awards Spotlights: Andy Nicholson, Dan Hennah, Jess Gonchor, ROI Insight: Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio

AWARDS ORIGINALS

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

 

Awards Spotlight: How Production Designer Andy Nicholson Took Audiences to Outer Space in ‘Gravity’

Nicholson is a two-decade veteran of movie art departments, but only recently did he make the jump to Production Designer. In just his second film in the role, Nicholson’s meticulously designed representations of actual places that few humans will ever see in real life puts him in a prime position for his first Oscar nomination. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: Production Designer Dan Hennah Brings Middle Earth to Life in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

As the lead production designer for Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films, he earned his fifth overall nomination for the first film in the series, An Unexpected Journey. Hennah now appears poised for another nomination for his dazzling work in the second of the trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Production Designer Jess Gonchor Talks Coen Brothers & Aging Sets Backwards

Gonchor earned his first Oscar nomination three years ago for his work on the Coen’s True Grit, and this year’s Inside Llewyn Davis marks his fifth collaboration with the writing-directing team. However, Llewyn Davis was nowhere near his biggest job of the year, as his other gig was one of the biggest of all time. (SSN)

OTHER ORIGINALS

 

ROI Insight: Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio — Are They the Wolves of Hollywood?

SSN takes a look at the director’s beginnings and the ROI of his films with DiCaprio, as well as Scorsese’s top 10 directorial efforts by box-office gross. (SSN)

A Netflix Gift For The Whole Family: ‘Turbo F.A.S.T.’

The show is the first-ever Netflix original series for kids and is part of the company’s new partnership with Dreamworks. The reason this is a big deal: it’s been shown that kids don’t watch shows just once and move on, they watch episodes multiple times, especially as they’ve grown up with on demand services – which is good news for Netflix. (SSN)