Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Nosferatu’ Craft Team On Four Oscar Noms, Shouts Out Director Robert Eggers: “He Shares In This As Well”
The only surprise today with Nosferatu’s four Oscar nominations is that four of the six nominees have somehow never been nominated before. Though if you ask the nominees, every film they’ve worked on together is just a way to hone their skills for the next project.
“Film by film, starting with The Witch moving through The Lighthouse into The Northman and Nosferatu, as a group of collaborators, I think we have honed the skills required to choose what’s pertinent to tell the story and produce it to a really high degree,” says costume designer Linda Muir, who received her first Oscar nomination this morning.
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Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke was nominated in 2020 for The Lighthouse, which was the only nomination for the film. “Last time it just felt like sort of a fluke thing, just sort of me as an island,” he says. “We’re just sort of hoping to build off of each other every time. We’re two films further along [since The Lighthouse] so all that’s elevated and becoming more elevated, and it’s deepened all these relationships.
“Jarin, Linda, Lou [Ford], myself and of course Rob [Eggers] have been together since The Witch and we’ve added more and more people to that family as we’ve gone along, all once again because of Rob. He’s just amazing,” says production designer Craig Lathrop, who also became a first-time Oscar nominee this morning.
Among those that have been added to the family along the way are makeup designer Traci Loader, hair designer Suzanne Stokes-Munton and prosthetic makeup effects designer David White, who received a nomination for their work this morning as well. Loader and Stokes-Munton are also first-time nominees.
In speaking with all of the nominees, one thing becomes abundantly clear – although he did not receive a nomination himself, everyone says Robert Eggers is a huge part of their nomination. “He’s there with me every step along the way, so he shares in this as well,” says Muir. “His attention to detail in everything that he is looking at is impeccable.”
“It feels odd to not have Rob there because he’s the center of the wagon wheel for all of us,” says Blaschke. “Starting in the indie world in New York, Rob was the first person that really made perfectionism OK and that really makes a huge difference to someone with OCD, such as myself, to find a comfortable place. And then it’s encouraged and then I’m coming up with better stuff because of it. That pushes him and then he pushes me, and it’s just like a cyclone going upwards, and it’s rare.”
“Robert likes to keep everything authentic and real so it’s not distracting,” says Loader. “It’s not the easiest thing to always do and I think we did succeed with that.”
“It’s a total collaboration and inclusion of all departments so that you get immersed in the reality of the period,” adds Stokes-Munton. “I concur with what Traci says, especially for the hair, it compliments but doesn’t distract from everything else that’s going on.”
That’s not to say their work is dependent solely on Eggers’ vision, but a detail-oriented director can definitely be helpful when it comes to creating something like a new version of Count Orlok. “[Orlok] was based on tradition and folklore illustrations from the mid 17th century, which were brought forward by Robert,” says White. “Everything you can imagine from that time was rooted through and brought forward, given all our sense of nobility and power. That was the main crux of it.”
Coming off of The Northman, which didn’t receive any nominations in 2023, Nosferatu being nominated for costume design, cinematography, production design and makeup and hairstyling is a step for more recognition of the crafts in Eggers’ films. “[Nosferatu] was an opportunity to create such a large world – a beautiful, complete world,” says Lathrop. “It gave us the opportunity to do something that people would notice.”
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