Taiwanese director Ang Lee won the Best Director at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony for “Life of Pi.” Behind the success of the film lies stories that are rarely known.
Getting a coveted celebrity to wear your design at an event where everyone asks: “Who are you wearing?” is priceless for a budding designer’s career and the Oscars is the biggest of them all. Getting your design onto a celebrity is the tricky part. Having the right contacts, industry press coverage is helpful, but sometimes it is just a little luck.
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A set production designer in Pondicherry, India, got his big break working on “Life of Pi” and describes life on the set, including working with director Ang Lee.
“Life of Pi” won the lion’s share—or perhaps the tiger’s share—of Oscars on Sunday: original score, visual effects, cinematography, and Ang Lee’s award for best director. Pondicherry, India, where part of the story is set, celebrates its new fame.
Christoph Waltz won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as a German, sleeve-gun toting bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” on Sunday at the Academy Awards.
Seth MacFarlane told the Oscars that his all-time favorite movies are “The Sound of Music,” “Defending Your Life,” and “ From Justin to Kelly,” in that order.
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