Art & Crafts from The Ankler

Guillermo del Toro had been waiting almost all his life to make Frankenstein. “He’s wanted to make this movie since he was a little boy,” production designer Tamara Deverell tells Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen on the latest episode of Art & Crafts. For del Toro, the story of Frankenstein is foundational. “It’s in all my movies,” the Oscar-winning director behind The Shape of Water a...

Oscar-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell (Wicked), Oscar-winning hair and makeup designer Frances Hannon (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and casting director Bernard Telsey tell Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen about the long journey to bringing Wicked: For Good to the screen in all its handmade and bespoke glory. This conversation is sponsored by Universal Pictures. Learn more about yo...

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist), cinematographer William Rexer and production designer Samuel Bader tell Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen about how they stretched the small budget for The Testament of Ann Lee to great lengths. This conversation is sponsored by Searchlight Pictures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cinematographer, director and executive producer Dana Gonzales and visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart reveal how they expanded the Alien universe with the FX series Alien: Earth — and how the original film by Ridley Scott helped guide the way. This conversation, hosted by Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen, is sponsored by FX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Production designer Brandon Tonner-Connolly and cinematographer Mark Schwartzbard discuss their influences for the new FX series The Lowdown, created by Reservation Dogs' Sterlin Harjo — from '70s New Hollywood noir to the climate of Tulsa, Okla. This conversation, hosted by Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen, is sponsored by FX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

When Dan Gilroy sat down with his brother, Andor creator Tony Gilroy, and fellow writers Tom Bissell and Beau Willimon, to work on the Emmy-nominated show’s second and final season, he knew they had a tall task ahead. “On a lot of shows, climax means spectacle, and throwing a lot of money on the screen and looking for things to break and crash,” Dan Gilroy says to Ankler Media deputy editor Christ...

The sound design of the FX comedy series The Bear is often so noisy — heated conversations, shattered plates, clanging pots and pans — that when the Emmy Award-winning show goes quiet, it can feel like a primal scream. Never had the power of silence been more apparent on the series than in the season 3 episode “Doors,” which opens at a funeral service for the mother of pastry chef Marcus (Lionel B...

The Netflix animated series Love, Death + Robots has featured several innovative and unexpected episodes during its four-season run, but perhaps none as unique as “400 Boys,” where an army of gigantic babies threatens to end the world. “There’s a lot of sound design that we can play around with for something like that,” says supervising sound editor Brad North, MPSE, about the conceit of the episo...

“There was a magazine called Famous Monsters of Filmland that they used to sell at a 7-Eleven near my family’s house. And one day, I looked in the back of it, and there was a photo of them putting a man into the Godzilla suit. And I went, ‘Oh, wow, it’s a suit. Somebody makes this stuff,’” saysThe Umbrella Academy visual effects supervisor and Emmy nominee Everett Burrell. “And that was totally th...

In a conversation with set decorator Claire Kaufman, SDSA (and an Emmy Award nominee this year for The Studio), Emmy-nominated production designers Rob Tokarz (HBO Max's Hacks) and Ruth Ammon (Apple TV+'s Pachinko) discuss how they build the intricate sets for their respective shows — and their mutual apprecation. “I was Ruth’s art PA on my first union show — Heroes season 4,” Tokarz says. “I lear...

In a conversation with Molly Shock, ACE, Emmy-nominated editors Eric Kissack, ACE Apple TV+’s The Studio, Jamie Martin, ACE MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race and Peggy Tachdjian Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story chat about how their work helps guide the audience in the direction they need to go. “That is ultimately what drives everything we do,” Shock says. “But you all have three very d...

In a conversation with James Whitaker, ASC, Emmy-nominated cinematographers Adam Bricker, ASC (HBO Max's Hacks) and Jessica Lee Gagné (Apple TV+'s Severance) discuss the pressure that comes with returning to a hit series, how they each evolved the looks of their respective shows during the most recent season and how the production design informs their photography choices. “I didn’t know what seaso...

In a conversation moderated by four-time Emmy-nominated cinematographer and director Michael Goi, ASC, three of the creators behind Disney+’s Andor — costume supervisor Kate O’Farrell, production designer Luke Hull and composer Brandon Roberts — detail how they collaborated with creator Tony Gilroy to build the world of his acclaimed Star Wars spinoff series. The two-season drama, set prior to the...

In a conversation moderated by Emmy-nominated editor Michael Ruscio, ACE, three of the pros behind FX’s Say Nothing — creator and writer Joshua Zetumer, director Michael Lennox and cinematographer Stephen Murphy — delve into the process of crafting the haunting historical drama. Adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe, the scripted series conveys the complexity of...

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, production designer François Audouyon (whose credits include A Complete Unknown) moderates a conversation with three of the creators behind Amazon Prime Video’s 'Étoile': production designer Bill Groom, choreographer Marguerite Derricks and director of photography M. David Mullen, ASC. For...

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, director Jennifer Arnold speaks with three of the creators behind Netflix’s American Primeval: director of photography Jacques Jouffret, ASC, makeup department head Howard Berger and sound designer Wylie Stateman. The limited series follows the battle for control of the American West in 185...

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, ASC speaks with three of the creators behind Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal thriller series: director and executive producer Brian Kirk, costume designer Natalie Humphries and director of photography Christopher Ross. The series follows the cat-and-m...

In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, director Patricia Riggen speaks with four of auteur Steve McQueen’s collaborators on his World War II drama Blitz for Apple Original Films: production designer Adam Stockhausen, editor Peter Sciberras, and supervising sound editors James Harrison and Paul Cotterell. The film recreates...

In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Ruscio, ACE, speaks with three of the creators behind director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez: composers/songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille and editor Juliette Welfling. Netflix’s spectacular Spanish-language musical drama, which centers on a Mexican drug kingpin who transi...

In the second of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Rob Legato, ASC, speaks with four of the talents behind Wicked, Universal Pictures’ epic musical adventure. Cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC, editor Myron Kerstein, VFX supervisor Pablo Helman and supervising sound editor John Marquis discuss how they collaborated with...

In the first of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Goi, ASC, leads a conversation with three of the creators behind The Wild Robot, the $300 million global blockbuster from DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures. Composer Kris Bowers, visual effects supervisor Jeff Budsberg, and supervising sound editor Leff...

In the last of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Joel D. Catalan, CAS — a sound re-recording mixer who was Emmy-nominated for the NatGeo series Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey — sits down with two of 2024’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding sound editing for a comedy or drama series (one hour): Brian J. Ar...

In the third of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Mona May — the costume designer behind iconic films including Clueless and The Wedding Singer — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding period costumes for a limited or anthology series or movie: Lou Eyrich is nominated for h...

In the second of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Jeannine Oppewall — a four-time Oscar nominee for art direction on films including L.A. Confidential and The Good Shepherd — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in production design: Glenda Rovello is nominated for her work on Frasier, from Paramount+...

In the first of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker (Netflix’s One Piece) sits down with three of this year’s Emmy-nominated directors of photography. Dana Gonzales got the nod for FX’s Fargo; Richard Rutkowski for Apple TV+’s Sugar; and Gary Baum for Frasier from Paramount+ and CBS Studios. Th...