Eve Stewart's 'Fifty Dead Men' Bags a Genie
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Contacts: Meredith Emmanuel, [email protected], (818) 924-2772 or, Catie Disabato, [email protected], (310) 474-4585 ext.120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2010 Eve Stewart’s ‘Fifty Dead Men’ Bags a Genie Production Designer Adds Canadian Oscar to her Awards Collection LOS ANGELES – Dattner Dispoto production designer Eve Stewart won the Genie Award for her work on the film Fifty Dead Men Walking last night. The 30th Annual Genie Awards, known as the Canadian Oscars, took place yesterday in Toronto. Canadian helmer Kari Skogland (Liberty Stands Still, The Stone Angel) directed the story, inspired by the shocking real-life events detailed in Martin McGartland’s autobiography. In the sweeping, yet highly personal political thriller, Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess plays Martin McGartland, a Belfast lad who spied on the IRA for the British Police in the late 80s. The film played in the U.S. last August and co-stars Ben Kinglsey, Rose McGowan, Nathalie Press and Kevin Zegers. Press received a 2010 Independent Spirit nomination for her performance and the film collected the Best Canadian Feature Film award at 2008’s Vancouver International Film Festival. London-based production designer Eve Stewart brings an intimate, character-based style to all of her work, informed by exhaustive grassroots research. As filming took place on location in Belfast, Stewart retained an awareness of her responsibility to the people who inspired the story. “This was both a joy and a pressure as I was so determined not to do any of the communities involved a disservice,” she says. “I worked incredibly hard to ask those who had been directly involved for their truths. “My overall approach to the design was to accurately represent a hard existence in a troubled state; to show that it was to all intents and purposes viewed as a war on the streets. This I hoped to convey through the grey hard and scarred surfaces of the city, with its warm secret spaces where all manner of deals and whispers occurred, where the humanity or angry inhumanity was free to take hold.” Her work paid off, as Sight & Sound’s Trevor Johnston reports, “Thanks to production designer Eve Stewart's sterling efforts and authentic location work, the film certainly looks the part.” Stewart also recently designed the highly successful Michael Sheen starrer The Damned United. Her lasting association with British film luminaries including Mike Leigh, Guy Ritchie and Terry Gilliam has placed her at the forefront of production design in world cinema. Prior to Fifty Dead Men Walking, she designed the Jane Austen biopic Becoming Jane and Revolver, starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta. In 2006 Stewart received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie and a Best Production Design BAFTA nomination for her work on HBO TV’s Elizabeth I. Her contribution to De-Lovely earned her the Golden Satellite Award for Best Art Direction in 2005 and she was nominated for a Best Art Direction Academy Award in 1999 for Leigh’s lavishly detailed Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy. ATTENTION EDITORS and PRODUCERS: Dattner Dispoto and Associates’ clients are available for interviews. For more information, photos or to schedule an interview, please contact Meredith Emmanuel or Catie Disabato. ABOUT: Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) is a Hollywood-based talent agency representing an elite, international group of producers, cinematographers and designers. Please visit www.ddatalent.com for further news and information on DDA clients. -- 30 -- .