With
the script finished and the project green-lighted, the next stage is setting the stage, as all the elements that will comprise the onscreen world of the movie need to be designed and built in
pre-production. The Academy's production design, costume design, and
makeup/hairstyling branches have traditionally favoured achievements
in these fields that evoke period settings or more imaginative
fantasy worlds. Movies that manage to straddle both of those design
realms must always be considered formidable.
