Oscar Nominations 2022: These Are the Films Nominated for Production Design at the 2022 Academy Awards

It’s that time of year again, and the Oscar nominations for 2022 have been announced. After 2020 brought us movie theater closures and delayed release dates as we adjusted to our new normal, 2021 was a relatively splendorous year for the cinema. With new flicks from such big name directors as Guillermo Del Toro, Joel Coen, Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Lana Wachowski, there was no shortage of great films to watch and plenty of work from new directors to discover too.

Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of MacBeth and West Side Story were nominated as the films with the best production design of the past year. Whether you’re partial to the subtleties of the The Tragedy of MacBeth set or the wide open ranch of The Power of the Dog, tune into ABC on Sunday, March 27, at 8 p.m. EST to find out which film will take home the trophy, and read about the creation of the lauded sets below.

Dune

To create the set for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, production designer Patrice Vermette went back to the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. Vermette imagined how the described weather and wind conditions would affect the architecture the characters moved through, which resulted in angular buildings with thick stone walls to keep out the extreme heat.

Nightmare Alley