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'Fantastic Beasts' nominated for Art Directors Guild Awards, Stuart Craig talks sets
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was nominated for the 2017 Art Directors Guild Awards, recognizing the best of production and set designing in film and television. The feature is currently up in the Fantasy Film category, and another nomination for multiple-Oscar winning legend Stuart Craig.
Congratulations to this year's #ADGawards nominees!
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Production Designer:STUART CRAIG
PASSENGERS
Production Designer:GUY HENDRIX DYAS
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
Production Designers: DOUG CHIANG, NEIL LAMONT
The 21st annual Excellence in Production Design Awards will be held Feb. 11 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles.
Craig also spoke in detail about how he brought the 1926 New York City skyline and areas to life in Fantastic Beasts in a recent feature from the LA Times, describing it as a much new and different experience than the eight Harry Potter films he created.
Stuart Craig: “We’ve seen the London ministry [in the ‘Potter’ films] and for the American one, the requirement was different levels in the basement — a wand registration office, a typing pool, prison cells and then one level above street level for a huge concourse and then above that no floors at all.
“Realizing it was this great cathedral of light made me think of Sienna Cathedral in Italy where the interior is banded in light and dark color. Horizontal bands of marble in two contrasting colors. That seemed like a very good idea for this secular, magical cathedral we had built.”
“One of our early decisions was to give Newt a shed in this magical space. He lands down below and in that shed is his workshop. He’s more comfortable there than with his fellow human beings. From there on each [beast] had a required environment. It may be an Arizona desert, it may be a snowy arctic landscape, an abandoned forest.
Each one of those were taken separately and each world around it designed by concept artists. Some of the landscapes were painted backings. Some were taken further and given a three-dimensional physical reality. The shed was the key and then taking each piece and designing and treating it separately and then making them all compressed into this one big magical space.”
Craig is already set on pre-production of the second Fantastic Beasts film, taking place in Paris, France around 1928.
'Fantastic Beasts' nominated for Art Directors Guild Awards, Stuart Craig talks sets 
