Final vote is February 11-18. The 97th Oscar Telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and Air Live at ABC at. 19.00 et/ 16.00 pt. We will update our choices during the awards ceremony, so keep checking indieview for all our 2025 Oscar pre -prospects.
The race permit
The Best production design nominees are “Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part two,” “Nosferatu,” and “Evil,” Which is the favorite of its colorful and imaginative Oz world building. But “The Brutalist” gets lots of buzz for their meta architectural work.
Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” tells the history of origin to Elphaba/The Wicked Witch (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda/Glinda the good witches (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande). Production designer Nathan Crowley (one seven times Oscar -nominated) and set decorator Lee Sandales mapped Oz with models, illustrations and visual references to create every environment: the highlights are the rainbow -colored Munchkinland, with its 9 million tulips, Italian -sed Shiz University, in And Galinda first meets, and the elegant Emerald City. Crowley also designed Emerald City Express, a mechanical automatic and the magician’s large, wood, mechanical head.
Brady Corbet’s drama after Holocaust, “The Brutalist”, pits Oscar-nominated Adrien Brody as the visionary architect László Tóth against Oscar-nominated Guy Pearce as the Harrison Lee industry. The brutalist architectural movement from the 1950s came out of trauma after the war and works beautifully in the Vistavision format. The minimalist style consisted of bold shapes made of concrete or brick. Production designer Judy Becker manufactured prop models for Tóth and actual models for building sets and furniture (from set decorator Patrica Cuccia). The most prominent set was the institute, which was Tóth’s unfinished passion project, which represented both prison by concentration camps and the idea of freedom.
“Conclave”, Edward Berger’s follow -up of “All Quiet on the Western Front”, is a psychological thriller where Ralph Fienne’s Cardinal searches for a successor to the deceased Pope, who had a dark secret. Production designer Suzie Davies (“Saltburn”) and set decorator Cynthia Sleiter carefully recreated the Vatican interior at Cinecittà Studios, especially the secreled Conclave in the Sistine Chapel. This was a combination of light and dark, traditional and modern, male and female. For example, there is a hermetically sealed, posh prison method for the fictional Casa Santa Marta Vatican apartments, where the Cardinals live and a little more freedom in the Sixtin chapel. Fortunately, Cinecittà had an existing set for the latter in storage.
Oscar-winning “Dune” production designer Patrice Vermette and set decorator Shane Vieau (an Oscar winner for “The Shape of Water”) takes a deeper dive into Fremen and the Harkonnen cultures, with 40 percent more sets to work with. The mysterious, hidden world of the nomadic fried is slowly buried. This is the metaphor for the inner sietch set, which is filled with sand. A bone magoni inspired the cave of birds, whose interior looks like giant fingerprints. The manufacturer’s temple is a figure eight, symbolizes eternity, where sand represents death and water life. Souls Cistern is where the fried collects water from the dead to maintain them in preparation for their dream of a green arrakis. For Giedi Primi, Vermette was inspired by septic tanks because he associated the hardness of having a drain’s morality. This became the basis for his use of inkless black plastic and silver.
Robert Eggers “Nosferatu” offers a more folkloric tack on the vampire film with pre-Victorian Gothic horror. Shots throughout Prague (including Barrandov Studios, the 1400s Rožmitál Castle and Invalidovna complex), production designer Craig Lathrop and put the decorator Beatrice Brentnerová leaning into architectural authenticity as a way to sham the horror. They recreate a German city from the 19th century and contrast it with a 16th century castle in Romania, where Bill Skarsgårds Count Orlok lives.
The nominees are listed below because they will win.
Battlers
“Evil”
“The brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part two”
“Nosferatu”
