Some potential contenders were especially vivid. Production and costume designers explain the conundrums they faced and their surprising solutions.
Fire-engine red. Egg-yolk yellow. Christmas-tree green.
The palettes of this year’s potential Oscar contenders can be summed up in one word: Bold.
“Everybody on Pedro’s sets ends up wearing really strong colors,” said Inbal Weinberg, the production designer who dreamed up the striking, primary color-heavy visual aesthetic for Pedro Almodóvar’s euthanasia drama, “The Room Next Door.”
We spoke with the costume, production and makeup designers for three of this year’s potential Oscar contenders — “The Substance,” “The Room Next Door” and “Wicked” — about choosing just the right shades, creating striking sets and costumes
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