Art Directors Guild 100

ART DIRECTORS GUILD ANNOUNCES THE ADG 100: A CENTURY OF ACHIEVEMENTS IN DESIGN FOR THE MOVING IMAGE LOS ANGELES, February 14, 2009 --The Council of the Art Directors Guild (ADG), representing 2,000 craftspeople variously engaged in the art of designing moving images for film, on occasion th th of the Guild’s 70 anniversary and its 13 Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, today announced the following selection of 100 magnificently designed theatrical films (selected from 1898 through the year 2000). Editor’s Note: Individual poster images, as well as a compilation one-sheet, are available electronically upon request. The ADG 100: A Century of Moving Images (Films Listed Chronologically) * Denotes an Oscar nomination for Art Direction/Production Design ** Denotes an Oscar win for Art Direction/Production Design 1. Man in the Moon (1898) Director: Georges Melies Art Director: Georges Melies Capsule: An astronomer intently pores over his books. Suddenly, in a cloud of smoke, Satan appears and surprises the astronomer; chaos ensues. 2. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Cast: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner Director: D.W. Griffith Art Director: Walter L. Hall Capsule: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. 3. Joan the Woman (1917) Cast: Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth Director: Cecil B. DeMille Art Directors: Wilfred Buckland Capsule: A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives. 4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Cast: Werner Kraus, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher Director: Robert Wiene Art Director: Hermann Warm Capsule: In this mystical tale of murder, mystery and mayhem, the secret lies in Dr. Caligari’s cabinet. But is he a doctor or a dangerous patient? ADG Top 100 Designed Films 2 5. Nosferatu (1922) Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav V. Wangenheim, Greta Schröder Director: F.W. Murnau Art Director: Albin Grau Capsule: Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and in the real estate agent’s wife. Silent classic based on the story of "Dracula." 6. The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher Director: Raoul Walsh Art Director: William Cameron Menzies Capsule: The Caliph of Bagdad will give his daughter’s hand to the suitor who brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. A thief who has fallen in love with her, sets off on a magical journey while another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules. 7. Metropolis (1927) Cast: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge Director: Fritz Lang Art Directors: Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht Capsule: It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). 8. Napoleon (1927) Cast: Albert Dieudonne, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daele Director: Abel Gance Art Director: Simon Feldman Capsule: A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays, his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 9. Sunrise (1927) * Cast: George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston Director: F.W. Murnau Art Director: Rochus Gliese Capsule: In this fable-morality silent film masterpiece an "evil" woman bewitches a farmer and convinces him to murder his neglected wife. After the farmer comes to his senses - just as he is about to kill - the married couple renew their love. 10. King of Jazz (1929) ** Cast: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante Director: John Murray Anderson Art Director: Herman Rosse Capsule: This revue features the music of Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 3 11. Svengali (1930) * Cast: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp Director: Archie Mayo Art Director: Anton Grot Capsule: Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When he meets a beautiful model, Trilby, he becomes infatuated with her, but she falls for young artist, Billee who also loves her. All Paris desired her, but Svengali owned her! 12. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray Director: Lewis Milestone Art Directors: Charles D. Hall Capsule: A young German soldier faces profound disillusionment in the souldestroying horror of World War I. 13. Merry Widow (1934) ** Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton Director: Ernst Lubitsch Art Directors: Gabriel Scognamillo Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. The main taxpayer, a wealthy widow has left for Paris. Count Danilo is sent there to stop her from getting married to a stranger, so that the danger of removing the money is averted. 14. The Scarlet Empress (1934) * Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe Director: Josef von Sternberg Art Director: Hans Dreier Capsule: Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress. The domineering Empress hopes to improve the royal blood line. After the old empress dies, Sophia engineers a coup d'etat with the aid of the military, does away with Peter, and becomes Catherine the Great. 15. Top Hat (1935) * Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton Director: Mark Sandrich Art Director: Carroll Clark Supervising Art Director: Van Nest Polglase Capsule: Showman Jerry Travers demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in his producer’s London hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. But complications arise. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 4 16. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson Director: James Whale Art Director: Charles D. Hall Capsule: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster. 17. Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh Director: Max Reinhardt Art Director: Anton Grot Capsule: An adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most well known comedies; A Midsummer Night’s Dream portrays the whirlwind and confusing romances between several characters. 18. Modern Times (1936) Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman Director: Charlie Chaplin Art Director: Charles D. Hall, J. Russell Spencer Capsule: In Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, made when everyone else was making talkies, Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, and progress. 19. The Great Ziegfeld (1936) * Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer Director: Robert Z. Leonard Art Directors: Eddie Imazu Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows. 20. Things to Come (1936) Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson Director: William Cameron Menzies Art Director: Vincent Korda Capsule: A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive do not even know who started it or why. 21. Lost Horizon (1937) ** Cast: Ronald Colman, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton Director: Frank Capra Art Director: Stephen Goosson Capsule: A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La -- but is it the miraculous Utopia it appears to be? ADG Top 100 Designed Films 5 22. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ** Cast: Erroll Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone Directors: Michael Curtis, William Keighly Art Director: Carl Jules Weyl Capsule: Sir Robin of Locksley, defender of downtrodden Saxons, runs afoul of Norman authority and is forced to turn outlaw. With his band of Merry Men, he robs from the rich, gives to the poor and still has time to woo the lovely Maid Marian. 23. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Cast: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell Director: William Dieterele Art Director: Van Nest Polglase Capsule: Quasimodo, the deformed bellringer, tries to rescue the gypsy girl Esmeralda, who has been falsely accused of murder. 24. The Wizard of Oz (1939) * Cast: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke Director: Victor Fleming Art Director: William A. Horning, Elmer Sheeley Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage. 25. Gone With the Wind (1939) ** Cast: Vivian Leigh, Olivia DeHavilland, Clark Gable Director: Victor Fleming Production Designer: William Cameron Menzies Art Director: Lyle Wheeler Capsule: Set against the devastating background of the Civil War, this is the classic story of the beautiful Scarlett O’Hara, who has so much, yet loses everything.. 26. The Sea Hawk (1940) * Cast: Erroll Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains Director: Michael Curtiz Art Director: Anton Grot Capsule: Geoffrey Thorpe is a dashing pirate, who plunders Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beauty, but she will have nothing to do with him. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 6 27. How Green Was My Valley (1940) ** Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee Director: John Ford Art Directors: Nathan Juran Supervising Art Director: Richard Day Capsule: At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. 28. Citizen Kane (1941) * Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorhead Director: Orson Welles Art Director: Perry Ferguson Supervising Art Director: Van Nest Polglase Capsule: Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane, " the story of the rise and fall of a fascinating newspaper tycoon, is widely considered to be the greatest film ever to come out of Hollywood. 29. The Children of Paradise (1945) Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir Director: Marcel Carne Art Directors: Leon Barsacq, Raymond Gabutti Capsule: This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town. 30. Great Expectations (1946) ** Cast: John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson Director: David Lean Production Designer: John Bryan Capsule: An adaptation of Dickens’ masterpiece, Great Expectations follows Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, who lives with a kind blacksmith and his bossy, abusive wife. Pip encounters the granddaughter of the extremely wealthy Miss Havisham. Assuming she is the benefactor of his education, Pip goes on to be a lawyer. His expectations, though, do not convey reality. 31. Beauty and the Beast (1946) Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély Director: John Cocteau Art Director: Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré Capsule: The half-human, half beast owner of a strange castle sentences a merchant to death unless he gives up one of his daughters. Belle sacrifices herself for her father and goes to the castle, discovering that the Beast is not so wild and inhuman as it seems. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 7 32. Black Narcissus (1947) ** Cast: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger Production Designer: Alfred Junge Capsule: Five young British nuns are invited to move to the former house of an old general’s concubines, on a mountain in the Himalayas, to start a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. The lonely and exotic place awakes in the sisters the innermost desires of the flesh. 33. The Red Shoes (1948) ** Cast: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Production Designer: Hein Heckroth Capsule: Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. 34. The Heiress (1949) ** Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson Director: William Wyler Production Designer: Harry Horner th Capsule: A doctor in 19 Century New York is opposed to his daughter’s proposed marriage to a handsome, but penniless young man, certain that her suitor is after her considerable inheritance. 35. The Fountainhead (1949) Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey Director: King Vidor Art Director: Edward Carrere Capsule: Idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. He seems unemployable but lands a job with like-minded Henry Cameron. After Cameron’s death Roark is determined to retain his artistic integrity at all costs. 36. Little Women (1949) ** Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien Director: Mervyn LeRoy Art Directors: Paul Groesse Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken woman for her time. 37. Sunset Blvd. (1950) ** Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Eric von Stroheim Director: Billy Wilder Art Directors: John Meehan Supervising Art Director: Hans Dreier Capsule: The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silentscreen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 8 38. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ** Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter Director: Elia Kazan Art Director: Richard Day Capsule: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. 39. An American in Paris (1951) ** Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant Director: Vincente Minelli Art Directors: Preston Ames Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. 40. Rashomon (1952) * Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori Director: Akira Kurosawa Production Designer: So Matsuyama Capsule: In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. 41. Moulin Rouge (1952) ** Cast: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon Director: John Huston Art Director: Paul Sheriff Capsule: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. The son of a count, Henri's legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall, and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. 42. The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) ** Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon Director: Vincente Minelli Art Directors: Edward Carfagno Supervising Art Director: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: The film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer (Dick Powell), a star (Lana Turner) and a director (Barry Sullivan). 43. Julius Caesar (1953) ** Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Art Directors: Edward Carfagno Supervising Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons Capsule: Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 9 44. On the Waterfront (1954) ** Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb Director: Elia Kazan Art Director: Richard Day Capsule: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while running errands for the corrupt boss of the dockers’ union. Terry witnesses a murder and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information that will smash the dock racketeers. 45. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ** Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas Director: Richard Fleischer Art Director: Harper Goff Supervising Art Director: John Meehan Capsule: The oceans are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal that sinks their ships. A naturalist, his assistant, and a professional whaler join a US expedition that attempts to unravel the mystery. 46. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish Director: Charles Laughton Art Director: Hilyard M. Brown Capsule: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. 47. Giant (1956) * Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hudson Director: George Stevens Production Designer: Boris Levin Capsule: Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. He meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations. 48. The King and I (1957) ** Cast: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno Director: Walter Lang Art Directors: John De Cuir Sr. Supervising Art Director: Lyle R. Wheeler Capsule: Anna arrives in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She adores the children and, after a tempestuous start, eventually falls in love with the king, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. 49. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Cast: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness Director: David Lean Art Director: Donald M. Ashton Capsule: After settling his differences with a Japanese POW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 10 50. Gigi (1958) ** Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan Director: Vincente Minelli Production Designer: Cecil Beaton Art Director: E. Preston Ames, William A. Horning Capsule: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. 51. Ben-Hur (1959) ** Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet Director: William Wyler Art Directors: Edward Carfagno, William A. Horning Capsule: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. 52. North by Northwest (1959) * Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason Director: Alfred Hitchcock Production Designer: Robert Boyle Capsule: A middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government while being helped by a beautiful blonde. 53. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) ** Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters Director: George Stevens Art Directors: George W. Davis Supervising Art Director: Lyle R. Wheeler Capsule: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. 54. The Apartment (1960) ** Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray Director: Billy Wilder Art Director: Alexander Trauner Capsule: Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Baxter often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve. 55. The Hustler (1961) ** Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie Director: Robert Rossen Production Designer: Harry Horner Capsule: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. Now broke and without his long-time manager, the up-and comer faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 11 56. West Side Story (1961) ** Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn Director: Jerome Robbins Production Designer: Boris Leven Capsule: West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. The musical follows two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love. 57. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) ** Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton Director: Robert Mulligan Art Directors: Henry Bumstead, Alexander Golitzen Capsule: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. 58. Lawrence of Arabia (1963) ** Cast: Peter O’ Toole, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn Director: David Lean Production Designer: John Box Capsule: Epic tale of a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. 59. Cleopatra (1963) ** Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Production Designer: John DeCuir Sr. Capsule: The story of Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt who wants to stabilize her power by using the tensions in the Roman Empire. 60. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden Director: Stanley Kubrick Production Designer: Ken Adam Capsule: An insane general wants to start a nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. 61. Mary Poppins (1964) * Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson Director: Robert Stevenson Art Directors: William H. Tunke Supervising Art Director: Carroll Clark Capsule: The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures as Mary Poppins, a magic nanny, comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 12 62. My Fair Lady (1965) ** Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway Director: George Cukor Production Designer: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton Capsule: A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. 63. Dr. Zhivago (1965) ** Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin Director: David Lean Production Designer: John Box Capsule: Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. 64. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) ** Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal Director: Mike Nichols Production Designer: Richard Sylbert Capsule: A bitter aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other. 65. Fantastic Voyage (1966) ** Cast: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien Director: Richard Fleischer Production Designer: Dale Hennesy, Jack Martin Smith Capsule: A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream. 66. You Only Live Twice (1967) Cast: Sean Connery Director: Lewis Gilbert Production Designer: Ken Adam Capsule: Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. 67. Planet of The Apes (1967) Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy MacDowall, Kim Hunter Director: Franklin Schaffner Art Director: William Creber, Supervising Art Director: Jack Martin Smith Capsule: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 13 68. Oliver (1968) ** Cast: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed Director: Carol Reed Production Designer: John Box Capsule: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets. 69. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) * Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester Director: Stanley Kubrick Production Designers: Tony Masters, Ernest Archer, Harry Lange Capsule: 2001 is a story of evolution. A race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. 70. A Lion in Winter (1969) Cast: Peter O’ Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins Director: Anthony Harvey Art Director: Peter Murton Capsule: 1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. 71. Fiddler On The Roof (1971) * Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey Director: Norman Jewison Production Designer: Robert Boyle Capsule: Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms. 72. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates Director: Stanley Kubrick Production Designer: John Barry Capsule: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem...but not all goes to plan. 73. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois Director: Robert Altman Production Designer: Leon Ericksen Capsule: Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in town to set up a whorehouse/tavern with the shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam. When a major corporation wants to buy out the town, McCabe refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 14 74. The Conformist (1971) Cast: Jean Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Production Designer: Ferdinando Scarfiotti Capsule: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. 75. Cabaret (1972) ** Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey Director: Bob Fosse Production Designer: Rolf Zehetbauer Capsule: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic-era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. 76. The Sting (1973) ** Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw Director: George Roy Hill Production Designer: Henry Bumstead Capsule: In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. 77. The Godfather Part 2 (1974) ** Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton Director: Francis Ford Coppola Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis Capsule: The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. 78. Chinatown (1974) * Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston Director: Roman Polanski Production Designer: Richard Sylbert Capsule: A private detective is hired by a woman who suspects her prominent husband of having an affair. In the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real wife who is found dead. He is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. 79. Barry Lyndon (1975) ** Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee Director: Stanley Kubrick Production Designer: Ken Adam Capsule: In the Eighteenth Century, an Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 15 80. All the President’s Men (1976) ** Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden Director: Alan J. Pakula Production Designer: George Jenkins Capsule: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. Along with his partner Carl Bernstein, they find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party; and eventually into the White House itself. 81. Star Wars (1977) ** Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher Director: George Lucas Production Designer: John Barry Capsule: Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader. 82. Alien (1979) * Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright Director: Ridley Scott Production Designer: Michael Seymour Capsule: A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates. 83. Apocalypse Now (1979) * Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall Director: Francis Ford Coppola Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis Capsule: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. 84. Tess (1980) ** Cast: Nattasja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson Director: Roman Polanski Production Designer: Pierre Guffroy Capsule: A young strong-willed peasant girl becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one. 85. Heaven’s Gate (1980) * Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert Director: Michael Cimino Production Designer: Tambi Larsen Capsule: In 1890s Wyoming, Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 16 86. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ** Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen Director: Steven Speilberg Production Designer: Norman Reynolds Capsule: Indiana Jones hears from a museum curator about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to human existence. Jones has to venture to distant places to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy and a band of Nazis in order to reach it. 87. Reds (1981) * Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton Director: Warren Beatty Production Designer: Richard Sylbert Capsule: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. 88. Blade Runner (1982) * Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young Director: Ridley Scott Production Designer: Lawrence G. Paull Capsule: In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to reenter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. 89. Fanny and Alexander (1982) ** Cast: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin Director: Ingmar Bergman Art Director: Anna Asp Capsule: The title characters are children in an exuberant and colorful household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. After their father’s early death, their mother marries a bishop and moves the children to his austere and forbidding chancery where the children are immediately miserable. 90. Amadeus (1984) ** Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce Director: Milos Forman Production Designer: Patrizia Von Brandenstein Capsule: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. 91. Brazil (1985) * Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond Director: Terry Gilliam Production Designer: Norman Garwood Capsule: A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 17 92. Ran (1985) * Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akida Terao Director: Akira Kurosawa Production Designers: Shinobu Muraki, Yoshiro Muraki Capsule: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. 93. Out of Africa (1985) ** Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford Director: Sydney Pollack Production Designer: Stephen Grimes Capsule: In 20th Century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter. 94. The Last Emperor (1987) ** Cast: Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Production Designer: Fernando Scarfiotti Capsule: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication to his decline into a dissolute lifestyle as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic. 95. Dangerous Liaisons (1988) ** Cast: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Stephen Frears Production Designer: Stuart Craig Capsule: Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. 96. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) * Cast: John Neville, Eric Idle Director: Terry Gilliam Production Designer: Dante Ferretti Capsule: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. 97. Bugsy (1991) ** Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Benning Director: Barry Levinson Production Designer: Dennis Gassner Capsule: New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family waits back home. ADG Top 100 Designed Films 18 98. LA Confidential (1997) * Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger Director: Curtis Hanson Production Designer: Jeannine Oppewall Capsule: A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in their own unique ways. 99. Sleepy Hollow (1999) ** Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson Director: Tim Burton Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs Capsule: The classic story of "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" is brought to life by the gothic filmmaker Tim Burton. For Ichabod Crane to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel he will have to brave the nearby woods and the notorious Headless Horseman. 100. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) ** Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi Director: Ang Lee Production Designer: Tim Yip Capsule: The disappearance of a magical jade sword spurs a breathtaking quest for the missing treasure. The identity of an assassin is gradually unveiled as another poignant tale of love begins to ravel against the backdrop of Western China's magnificent landscape. Production Desigers/Art Directors With Two Or More Films in The ADG 100: A Century of Moving Images Ken Adam (4) • Lawrence of Arabia (1963) • Dr. Strangelove (1964) • You only live Twice (1967) • Barry Lyndon (1975) John Box (3) • Lawrence of Arabia (1963) • Dr. Zhivago (1965) • Oliver (1968) Edward Carfagno (3) • The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) • Julius Caesar (1953) • Ben Hur (1959) Richard Day (3) • How Green was my Valley (1940) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) • On the Waterfront (1954) Anton Grot (3) • Svengali (1930) • Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) ADG Top 100 Designed Films 19 • The Seahawk (1940) Richard Sylbert (3) • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) • Chinatown (1974) • Reds (1981) Lyle Wheeler (2) • Gone With the Wind (1939) • Diary of Anne Frank (1959) John Barry (2) • A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Star Wars (1971) Cecil Beaton (2) • Gigi (1958) • My Fair Lady (1965) Robert Boyle (2) • North by Northwest (1959) • Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Henry Bumstead (2) • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) • The Sting (1973) Hans Dreier (2) • The Scarlet Empress (1934) • Sunset Blvd. (1950) Boris Levin (2) • Giant (1956) • Westside Story (1961) John Meehan (2) • Sunset Blvd. (1950) • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Van Nest Polglase (2) • Top Hat (1935) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Ferdinando Scarfiotti (2) • The Conformist (1971) • The Last Emperor (1987) Dean Tavoularis (2) • The Godfather Part II (1974) • Apocalypse Now (1979) PRESS CONTACTS: Murray Weissman & Associates Lindajo Loftus, Suzanne Parker Tel: 818/760-8995; Fax: 818/760-4847 Suzanne@publicity4all.com, Lindajo@publicity4all.com, Murray@publicity4all.com