Every week up until the Oscars [0], I'll be featuring the nominees in the various visual categories. In this final week, I'll be looking at the nominees for best art direction [0], which encompasses the entire look and feel of a film from the scenery to the lighting. Yesterday, we saw a gallery from The Good Shepherd [0], and today's featured movie is one I never expected to see written in a sentence alongside "Oscar": Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [1].
The sequel to the original theme-park ride-based movie, Dead Man's Chest is nothing if not eye candy, and I'm not just talking about Johnny Depp. In its well-conceptualized fantasy world, you get everything from regal, tall-masted ships to creepy sea monsters and nautical costumes, all of which help give the special-effects-heavy movie a unified look and feel. To see a gallery of images from the movie,
- 014-P2C-09754R2 [1]
- 270-P2C-21495 [1]
- 026-P2C-1572-78-68-62RBver1 [1]
- 001-P2C-05917R-1 [1]
- 029-P2C-05376 [1]
- 090-P2C-07458_RB [1]
- 087-P2C-1303RCver1 [1]
- 034-P2C-18910R2 [1]
- 002-P2C-2170RBver1 [1]
- 040-P2C-3942_3941R [1]
- 178-P2C-00185 [1]
- 201-P2C-C063-0002 [1]
- 095-P2C-C029-04R2 [1]
- 121-P2C-07824 [1]
- 209-P2C-01437 [1]
- 155-P2C-C038-0011 [1]
Photos courtesy of Buena Vista Publicity [2]