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Novembre 2002 RICHARD CONTENTS SYLBERT 8 Richard Sylbert Homage RITA RYACK Rita Ryack Focus 14 Alex McDowell The man that designed the future Danilo Donati Pinocchio: birth of an event ALEX MCDOWELL 20 32 DANILO DONATI PUBLISHER Maria Harman. EDITOR Paolo Felici. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Leggio. Eric Lichtenfeld. Jan Lindstrom. Gianni Terenzi. GRAPHIC DESIGN Paola Cantarini. PHOTO: Sergio Strizzi. SPECIAL THANKS: Weissman/Delson Communications, North Hollywood - CA - USA For Rita Ryack : Glow Media and Marketing New York NY For Danilo Donati : Eredi Donati. Alessandro Cotone. ©Pinocchio: Melampo Cinematografica Srl. ©Minority Report: TM and 2002 Twentieth Century Fox and Minority Report TRANSLATIONS Stefano Tordiglione. Tasmeen Monie. (Photo Francois Audouy) DISTRIBUTION: Prestige/Periodical Distributors Inc. New York An early concept design ©2002 The Scenographer Magazine (All rights reserved). by Alex McDowell Periodical. Printed in the USA The Scenographer presents a new regular column from the Art Directors Guild, an American association representing art directors and production designers in U.S. cinema and television. Murray Weissman, the Guild’s correspondent, writes on the numerous initiatives of the Art Directors Guild, boasting over 1,000 members throughout the States. By Murray Weissman (Correspondent for the Art Directors Guild) he Art Directors Guild, the 36-year- American Cinema Editors request that they share it for gold Hollywood based union of their editing awards that take place the next night. The Production Designers, Art Directors arrivals and reception begin. The music sways. Some of and Assistant Art Directors whose the best wine being served is Italian. Posters of the 10 members are the talented men and nominated films of 2001 are positioned throughout the women who design the look of room. There’s anticipation and electricity in the air. thousands of United States and international theatrical motion pictures And the winner for Outstanding Period/Fantasy film for and television programs, has been 2001 is announced to be Moulin Rouge, that amazing, invited by The Scenographer to write a beautiful fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman that brought column for each of the magazine’s music back to the screen with giant doses of creative editions. The editor’s goal is for us to imagination by design and story telling. The film’s relate to the designer world some of the Australian Production Designer Catherine Martin steps up interesting activities of the Guild and excitedly to accept and thanks her Supervising Art Director its members in Hollywood, New York Ian Gracie as well as Art Directors Ann-Marie Beauchamp, and throughout the United States. This Assistant Art Directors Nikki Di Falco, Jacinta Leong, is the first such column. Prisque Salvi, Sarah Light and Deborah Riley. Following the awards ceremony, Martin joins the Art Directors Guild It’s probably fitting then that we first as an active member. As most of the world knows Martin take you back a few months to Merv is also the wife of Baz Luhrmann, producer-writer-director Griffin’s Beverly Hilton Hotel in of Moulin Rouge. Beverly Hills, the venue for the Art This award is followed at the ceremony by the Directors Guild’s Sixth Annual announcement for Outstanding Production Design of a Excellence in Production Design Contemporary Film. It went to Amelie , the charming, Awards. The room is filled with the rich romantic, French-language film whose delicious designs and famous in black tie and gowns, are nothing short of a love letter to Paris. But the film’s peopled by 650 celebrities, production French Production Designer Aline Bonetto and her Art designers, art directors, industry Director Volker Schäfer are not present to accept. The executives, producers and media. The award is forwarded to them via the film’s distributor stage is so artistically designed that the Miramax. These awards were preceded by HOLLYWOOD announcements of winners in four categories of American television programs. These went to Production DESIGNERS Designer Marcia Hinds and Tom Taylor for their work on the pilot for Six Feet Under; to Production Designer Glenda ESTABLISH CENTER Rovello for her work on Will and Grace; to Production Designer William Creber and Art Director Jim Gloster for their FOR FILM & TV work on The Last Brickmaker in America and to Production Designer Roy Christopher, Art Directors Tamlyn DESIGN AS NON- Wright and Keaton Walker and Assistant Art Directors Jennifer Vogt and Marcus Catherine Martin PROFIT Brandly for their work on The 73rd accepting the award for Moulin Rouge Annual Academy Awards. for Excellence in Production Design for a Period/Fantasy Film In addition, the Guild presented two ORGANIZATION annual honorary awards. Its Cinematic Imagery Award was voted to Filmmaker The big designer news in Hollywood these Frank Oz while a Lifetime Achievement past two months is formation of a for Production Design Award was given new, non-profit Center for Film & TV to Ken Adam, whose work was Design, established by an ad hoc group of highlighted in the first edition of The 75 prominent Hollywood-based motion Scenographer. picture and television designers, illustrators, set designers, costume Peri Gilpin served as host for the designers, library professionals, business evening. The president of the Art executives and other industry creative Directors Guild is Production Designer artists. Jack de Govia. Awards Chairman is Its reach is to embrace all aspects of Production Designer Dahl Delu. motion picture and television design, Celebrity presenters were Dana Delany, including production design, art direction, Timothy Bottoms, Gary Cole, Maria illustration, set design and costume design. Conchita Alonzo and Martha Coolidge Its mission is to provide forums, preserve who is president of the Directors Guild outstanding design achievements, advance of America. understanding of design through The next Annual Art Directors Guild Ken Adam as he accepts his Lifetime publications, activities, exhibitions and Awards are set for Feburary 22, 2003, also Achievement for Production Design special events, support scholarly research, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Award rescue endangered film and television Hills. At that time Production Designer design history and explore new design Albert Brenner will be presented the technologies. Guild’s coveted Lifetime Achievement The Center’s immediate and future Award. Recipient of the next Cinematic ambitions are for maintaining an archive, Imagery Award will be announced in the establishing a library, conducting near future. For ticketing to the next seminars, maintaining a research facility, Awards ceremony contact the Art opening a museum, publishing texts and Directors Guild in the U.S. at 818/762- documents about design, 9995 or via the internet at producing special events and conferences, [email protected]. ■ preserving records and artifacts, establishing and producing an oral history. In addition, it plans on having a program for visiting artists, Jack De Govia: President of the Art Directors Guild, maintaining a museum shop, establishing Ken Adam, Catherine Martin and Frank Oz. Adam for Lifetime Achievement Award, Martin for student internships and cataloging over a Moulin Rouge and Oz for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery long term all film design holdings, archives, and collections. Although the Center has Albert Brenner been established with modest initial funding, it numerous others. has ambitious plans to gather regular financial When creative support through donations and special fund- designers and writers raising events. want to review the look Center officers are Production Designer of a particular year Michael Baugh, chairman; Business these early magazines Executive Mary Ann Grasso, secretary- and books are deemed treasurer; and Production Designer Norman invaluable. Newberry, vice president. Other members of Said Center Chairman the Center’s Board of Directors are Baugh: "With the Production Designer Rene Legler, formation of our new Production Designer Harold Center for Film & Michelson, Researcher Lillian Michelson, Television Design our Harold Costume Designer Mary Rose, Production industry finally has an Michelson Designer Tom Walsh, and Set Decorator organization willing Robert Zilliox. Baugh is also the present to dedicate itself to the treasurer of the Art Directors Guild while managing and Newberry is a past president of the Guild. preserving of Rose is currently treasurer of the Motion television research Picture Costume Designers Guild. libraries and design artifacts. We must not An example of one of the more invaluable let these treasures disappear. And we now collections of Hollywood filmmaking need the full support of a caring industry to history that will become a major asset of the help us fund the ambitious goals we have Center is the Lillian Michelson Research for the Center." The Center welcomes Library, which presently contains 7,000 contributions of costume and production books, 100,000 periodicals (some dating design illustrations from Italian and all back to before the Civil War) and l.5 million other European designers.“The Center is clippings, stills and photographs. Over the interested in anything that teaches about years her library has grown through the design or enriches the understanding of addition of many private collections film crafts,” says Baugh. “Italian cinema belonging to retired and deceased has, since its earliest days, stretched the Production Designers.