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Stuart Craig is a Production Designer and Production Design British born on 14 april 1942

Stuart Craig

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Birth name Norman Stuart Craig
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 april 1942 (82 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Norman Stuart Craig OBE (born April 14, 1942) is a noted British production designer.

He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephenie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K. Rowling's request, he worked with Universal Creative team to design the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park. Rowling said in a December 2007 interview on the Potter podcast PotterCast, "The key thing for me was that, if there was to be a theme park, that Stuart Craig … would be involved. … More than involved, that he would pretty much design it. Because I love the look of the films; they really mirror what’s been in my imagination for all these years".

He has been nominated for an Academy Award ten times, and has won three times: in 1982 for Gandhi, in 1988 for Dangerous Liaisons, and in 1996 for The English Patient. He has been nominated for a BAFTA award fourteen times, including for first six and last Potter film, and has won twice: in 1980 for The Elephant Man and in 2005 for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Stuart Craig has been nominated for a BAFTA Award for consecutive six films in a row, viz. for consecutive first six Harry Potter films.

For his work on The English Patient, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2, Craig was nominated for an Art Directors Guild award and won the same for The English Patient and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The Guild has also honored Craig with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the awards ceremony on 16 February 2008.

Biography

Début de carrière
Stuart Craig a commencé sa carrière en 1968 en tant que dessinateur en bâtiment, travaillant sur des croquis d'architecte pendant douze ans, avant de travailler pour l'industrie cinématographique. Il n'abandonne pas sa technique par la suite, concevant jusqu'à présent ses pièces, bâtiments et emplacements avec des croquis approximatifs préalables, suivis de dessins techniques plus élaborés. Il confie ensuite ses travaux à des illustrateurs conceptuels qui ajoutent davantage de détails et retravaillent les échelles.


Années 1980 et 1990 ː révélation et distinctions honorifiques
Il commence sa carrière cinématographique en 1980 avec Elephant Man de David Lynch. Deux ans plus tard, son travail sur Gandhi lui vaut l'Oscar des meilleurs décors, partagé avec Bob Laing et Michael Seirton. En 1986, il est chargé de concevoir pour Roland Joffé les décors de Mission, un film dont l'intrigue relate l'histoire des réductions guaranies, républiques autonomes créées par les jésuites en forêt amazonienne sous le pouvoir colonial espagnol au milieu du XVIII siècle. Pour l'adaptation des Liaisons dangereuses de Stephen Frears en 1988, Craig élabore, en concordance avec les costumes de James Acheson, des décors de style baroque intégrés dans plusieurs châteaux français où les scènes sont tournées. Il remporte un second Oscar pour ce film.

Au début des années 1990, Stuart Craig et la décoratrice de plateau Stephenie McMillan sont sollicités pour Le Jardin secret d'Agnieszka Holland, film produit par Francis Ford Coppola et adapté du roman éponyme de Frances Hodgson Burnett. Stuart Craig base le décor dans la lande du Yorkshire et autour du château néo-gothique / victorien d'Allerton. Certains plans d'intérieurs tournés au Collège d'Eton font apparaître des boiseries et tapisseries anciennes à l'effigie d'Édouard VI ou du thème médiéval de La Chasse à la licorne (sujet repris à plusieurs reprises par le décorateur au cours de sa carrière). Le plus grand défi pour Stuart Craig réside dans la conception du jardin en lui-même, qui est aménagé à partir de zéro. Par ailleurs, le visionnage de ce film aurait en partie convaincu J. K. Rowling, lectrice des romans de Burnett, de confier six ans plus tard les droits cinématographiques de Harry Potter à Warner Bros. pour la réussite de cette adaptation.

Trois ans plus tard, Craig et McMillan travaillent avec Anthony Minghella sur Le Patient anglais, dont l'intrigue se situe en Toscane et au Sahara. Ils partagent pour ce film l'Oscar des meilleurs décors en 1997.


Années 2000 et 2010 ː adaptation du monde des sorciers de Rowling

Stuart Craig travaille à partir de 2000 sur la conception de l'univers de Harry Potter pour l'adaptation cinématographique des romans de J. K. Rowling. Pour l'aider, J. K. Rowling lui transmet dès le départ une esquisse représentant l'emplacement de Poudlard et de ses environs, que Craig conserve toujours sous les yeux durant dix ans.



« Stuart est celui qui a fait naître le monde de Harry Potter au cinéma. […] Il a tellement de goût et d'élégance que peu importe le niveau de magie ː il parvient toujours à ancrer le contexte dans la réalité, et le merveilleux devient possible, réel, plein de vérité. »


— David Heyman

À la demande de J. K. Rowling, Stuart Craig travaille à partir de 2010 avec l'équipe de Universal Creative pour concevoir le Wizarding World of Harry Potter à Universal's Islands of Adventure en Floride. Rowling déclare dans un entretien en décembre 2007 : « L'essentiel pour moi était que, s'il devait y avoir un parc à thème, Stuart Craig soit impliqué […], que, pour ainsi dire, il le crée. Parce que j'aime le décor de ces films, ils reflètent vraiment ce qu'il y avait dans mon imagination pendant toutes ces années ».

À partir de 2016, il retrouve l'équipe des films Harry Potter en assurant la direction artistique d'une nouvelle série de films issue de l'univers sorcier, Les Animaux fantastiques, écrits par J. K. Rowling. Sur ce projet, il travaille en collaboration avec la chef décoratrice Anna Pinnock. Ils remportent tous les deux le BAFTA 2017 des meilleurs décors pour ce premier film.

Best films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
(Production Design)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
(Production Design)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
(Production Design)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
(Production Design)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
(Production Design)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
(Production Design)

Usually with

J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
(11 films)
David Heyman
David Heyman
(11 films)
Steven Kloves
Steven Kloves
(10 films)
David Yates
David Yates
(8 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Stuart Craig (33 films)

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Producer

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Callum Turner
Roles Production Designer
Rating62% 3.1061653.1061653.1061653.1061653.106165
L'intrigue principale de cet épisode se déroule au Brésil (notamment à Rio de Janeiro), probablement dans les années 1930.

Art

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Callum Turner
Roles Production Design
Rating62% 3.1061653.1061653.1061653.1061653.106165
L'intrigue principale de cet épisode se déroule au Brésil (notamment à Rio de Janeiro), probablement dans les années 1930.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2h14
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Johnny Depp, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.2558753.2558753.2558753.2558753.255875
En 1927, quelques mois seulement après son arrestation par le Congrès magique des États-Unis, Gellert Grindelwald s'évade et souhaite rassembler des sorciers de « sang-pur » afin de régner sur l’ensemble de la population non magique. Albus Dumbledore, un professeur renommé de l'école de sorcellerie britannique de Poudlard, et ancien ami d'enfance de Grindelwald, semble le seul en mesure de l'arrêter.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2h13
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler
Roles Production Design
Rating72% 3.602083.602083.602083.602083.60208
1926. Norbert Dragonneau rentre à peine d'un périple à travers le monde où il a répertorié un bestiaire extraordinaire de créatures fantastiques. Il pense faire une courte halte à New York mais une série d'événements et de rencontres inattendues risquent de prolonger son séjour. C'est désormais le monde de la magie qui est menacé.
The Legend of Tarzan, 1h50
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Djimon Hounsou, John Hurt
Roles Production Design
Rating61% 3.0954353.0954353.0954353.0954353.095435
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life in London as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz).
Gambit
Gambit (2012)
, 1h29
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay, Cloris Leachman
Roles Production Design
Rating56% 2.8473452.8473452.8473452.8473452.847345
British art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss Lord Shabandar (Alan Rickman) by conning him into buying a fake Monet ("Haystacks at Dusk"), a painting that has been missing since 1945, after being plundered by the Nazis. He teams up with a master art forger, the Major, and travels to Alpine, Texas to find rodeo queen, PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz) whom he plans to recruit in his scheme. Harry envisions the plan in his head, and goes to a bar to talk to PJ. PJ's friend Merle, angered by his advances, punches Harry in the face and a bar fight is started. PJ walks outside to find Harry and the Major cleaning their wounds, and they talk to her about the deal. She agrees and the next day the three drive out to PJ's grandmother's mobile home out in the desert. They hang the fake Monet on the wall and take a picture with the painting in the background. The picture is to appear with an article on the rodeo queen that will be published in a magazine that is part of Shabandar's media empire.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, 2h10
Directed by David Yates
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman
Roles Production Design
Rating80% 4.0498954.0498954.0498954.0498954.049895
Lord Voldemort retrieves the Elder Wand from Albus Dumbledore's grave. After burying Dobby, Harry Potter asks the help of goblin Griphook, Ron, and Hermione to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees, in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Wandmaker Ollivander tells Harry that two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and to Draco Malfoy, but Malfoy's has changed its allegiance to Harry.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, 2h26
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Films about snakes, Harry Potter, Films about dragons, Ghost films, Road movies, Children's films, Reptile
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Felton
Roles Production Design
Rating76% 3.8499753.8499753.8499753.8499753.849975
The Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, addresses the wizarding media, stating that the Ministry would remain strong even as Lord Voldemort gains strength. Harry, Ron and Hermione prepare for a journey to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, with Harry watching Dursleys depart and Hermione wiping her parent's memories of her.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2h33
Directed by David Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Werewolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter
Roles Production Design
Rating76% 3.801333.801333.801333.801333.80133
Lord Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the wizarding and Muggle worlds and has chosen Draco Malfoy to carry out a secret mission. Severus Snape makes an Unbreakable Vow with Draco's mother, Narcissa, to protect Draco and fulfill the assignment if he fails.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2h18
Directed by David Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis
Roles Production Design
Rating75% 3.752553.752553.752553.752553.75255
Harry Potter is forced to defend himself against charges of using magic while underage, and in the presence of his Muggle cousin Dudley, after the two are attacked by Dementors. The Order of the Phoenix, a secret organisation founded by Albus Dumbledore, inform the now pending expulsion Harry that the Ministry of Magic is oblivious to Lord Voldemort's return; under the Ministry's influence, The Daily Prophet has launched a smear campaign towards Harry and Dumbledore following Harry's encounter with Voldemort at the end of the previous year. This encounter had a huge psychological effect on Harry – he has nightmares not only about what happened in the graveyard but also about the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic. While at the Order's headquarters, Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, mentions that Voldemort is after an object which he did not have last time.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2h37
Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Mermaids in film, Harry Potter, Films about dragons, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robert Pattinson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes
Roles Production Design
Rating77% 3.8515153.8515153.8515153.8515153.851515
Harry Potter dreams of Frank Bryce, who is killed after overhearing Lord Voldemort discussing plans with Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew and Barty Crouch Jr. At the Quidditch World Cup, Death Eaters terrorise the spectators, and Crouch Jr. summons the Dark Mark, otherwise known as the curse "Morsmordre".
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2h22
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Time travel films, Wolves in film, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Werewolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths
Roles Production Design
Rating79% 3.951453.951453.951453.951453.95145
Harry Potter, now aged 13, has been spending another dissatisfying summer at Privet Drive. When Uncle Vernon's sister, Marge, insults Harry's parents, he becomes angry and accidentally causes her to inflate and float away. Harry flees with his luggage, fed up with his life with the Dursleys. The Knight Bus delivers Harry to the Leaky Cauldron, where he is forgiven by Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge for using magic outside of Hogwarts. After reuniting with his best friends Ron and Hermione, Harry learns that Sirius Black, a convicted supporter of the dark wizard Voldemort, who murdered Harry's parents, has escaped Azkaban prison, intending to kill Harry.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2h41
Directed by Chris Columbus
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about spiders, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese, Heather Bleasdale
Roles Production Design
Rating74% 3.704493.704493.704493.704493.70449
Harry Potter spends the summer at the Dursleys' house without receiving letters from his Hogwarts friends. He is sent to his room by The Dursleys to avoid embarassing them in front of Uncle Vernon's friends, who are coming over as guests.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2h32
Directed by Chris Columbus
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Harry Potter, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith
Roles Production Design
Rating76% 3.804533.804533.804533.804533.80453
Harry Potter is a seemingly ordinary boy, living with his hostile relatives, the Dursleys in Surrey. On his eleventh birthday, Harry learns from a mysterious stranger, Rubeus Hagrid, that he is actually a wizard, famous in the Wizarding World for surviving an attack by the evil Lord Voldemort when Harry was only a baby. Voldemort killed Harry's parents, but his attack on Harry rebounded, leaving only a lightning-bolt scar on Harry's forehead and rendering Voldemort powerless. Hagrid reveals to Harry that he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After buying his school supplies from the hidden London street, Diagon Alley, Harry boards the train to Hogwarts via the concealed Platform 9¾ in King's Cross Station.
The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2h6
Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films based on mythology, Sports films, Golf films, Children's films
Actors Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch
Roles Production Design
Rating66% 3.3490453.3490453.3490453.3490453.349045
Promising golfer Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) is the favorite son of Savannah, Georgia and a noteworthy golfer; Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron) was his girlfriend before he went off to war and is from a rich family. While serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I, Junuh is traumatized when his entire company is wiped out in battle. Though he earns the Medal of Honor, he returns to Georgia and lives a shadowy life as a drunk, golf being just a distant memory.