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‘Napoleon’s’ Oscar-Nominated Production And Costume Designers On The Challenges Of Ridley Scott’s Latest Epic – Contenders Film: The Nominees


Napoleon' production designer Arthur Max and costume designers Janty Yates and David Crossman discuss the challenges in bringing the epic to life.

He loves it and it’s got a lot to offer us in terms of the landscape, which portions of are very unspoiled, and also the port facility there is an enormously interesting harbor,” Max said, adding that in England there are other challenges. There’s quite a lot of stately homes in England that we looked at and ended up choosing the ones that were most similar to French architecture of 18th and earlier centuries. Crossman is a veteran of big movies including several with Steven Spielberg like Saving Private Ryan, and he is a world expert in military costuming, which came in very handy here.

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