on October 26 last year. It has since been nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best International Feature. The ambitious adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic 1929 antiwar novel also is up for Cinematography, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Sound, Production Design, Visual Effects and Make-up and Hair Styling.
“Honestly, for me I treated the whole movie like a painting,” Merker said of the techniques and challenges she and her department employed and faced in finding the right look for the film, as the production also dealt with the restrictions of Covid safety protocols. “I looked up so many documentaries, and pictures from that time,” the veteran designer Merker added. “This was our color range, and I don’t want to have just one color. I want to have a layer of colors in different ways, different consistencies and so we can play with.”
“We wanted to feel real, we wanted it to feel as authentic as humanly possible,” added Friend about what he called their “small big movie.”
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