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WHEN RENEE EHRLICH KALFUS signed on as costume designer for the Fox release 'Hidden Figures,' she was excited to help tell this seldom-heard story of three black, female math prodigies [...]

THE SIXTH SEASON of 'American Horror Story' debuts on Sept. 14, but FX has kept the storyline so deeply under wraps that the team marketing the show had to devise [...]

PRODUCTION DESIGNER Gary Kordan has been on an impressive run. After two straight Art Directors Guild nominations for his work on the variety show 'Key & Peele,' including a win [...]

COSTUME DESIGNER KARYN WAGNER was browsing in a comic-book store when she stumbled upon 'Preacher' the popular 1990s graphic-novel series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Smitten by the bizarre, [...]

WORKING ON 'MOONLIGHT' felt like a college reunion for editor Joi McMillon. The film's writer and director, Barry Jenkins, was her classmate at Florida State University, as were producer Adele [...]

PRODUCTION DESIGNER Barry Robison had his work cut out for him on 'Hacksaw Ridge,' the Lionsgate-released biopic about conscientious objector Desmond Doss, who, as a soldier without a gun, displayed [...]

WHEN BRAD PITT'S PLAN B Entertainment co-president Jeremy Kleiner approached Nicholas Britell with a promising script, the composer was eager to read it. He had, after all, scored the production [...]

A recent brainstorm by U.K.-based production company Raw TV resulted in 'Taking Fire,' a hyper-realistic war documentary that uses footage from cameras affixed to soldiers' helmets and uniforms to present [...]

MAKEUP DEPARTMENT HEAD Elle Favorule had a particularly difficult challenge to deal with on Chris Kelly's semi-autobiographical film 'Other People' starring Molly Shannon: how to believably transform Shannon into Joanne, [...]

Discovery Channel developed 'Hello World' as a bid to shake up the nature-programming genre. The six-part series explores species and habitats through the eyes of six musical artists: Usher, Christina [...]

FROM THE FLASHING LIGHTS of a giant TV to the colorful jerseys of competing teams, the vibrant red-and-blue aesthetic of Nickelodeon's 'Crashletes' merges the adrenaline of a sporting event with [...]

WATCHING JEFF RUSSO in a recording studio provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the creative process. Sitting with a modest crew of engineers, mixers, and assistants, the [...]

Composer Dominic Lewis joined director Jodie Foster's fourth feature, 'Money Monster,' late in the game. Henry Jackman, the film's music producer, recommended him to Foster in April, and Lewis accepted [...]

Working on 'Deadliest Catch' has been a dream job for Josh Earl. He joined the Discovery series as an assistant editor at the end of the first season, and was [...]

FANS AND AWARDS SHOWS love focusing on period costumes in films and TV, but what about contemporary outfits? They get far less attention but can be even more challenging to [...]

When director Peter Atencio took on 'Keanu,' the first feature starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, he aimed to give the film a different feel from the comedy duo's TV [...]

From the Valyrian steel in 'Game of Thrones' to the lightsabers of 'Star Wars,' audiences these days are just eating up dueling-sword content. This fact was not lost on actor [...]

Animator Chris Savino has accumulated a plethora of creative and production credits on such shows as 'Dexter's Laboratory,' 'The Powerpuff Girls' and 'Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.' Now, his latest endeavor [...]

Reteaming with 'Dope' director Rick Famuyiwa, cinematographer Rachel Morrison was enthusiastic about delivering the 1991 story of Anita Hill's sexual harassment testimony against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas [...]

Production designer James Connelly gets inspiration from all kinds of sources. Prior to working on the set of this year's 'The Voice,' an idea hit him as he walked through [...]

As a college student from New Zealand spending a year in the U.S., Hanan Townshend answered a generic-looking help-wanted ad that, he recalls, read something like 'notable director seeks composer [...]

Bill Groom had barely celebrated his fourth straight Emmy win for production design on 'Boardwalk Empire' when he was approached to board another HBO series, 'Vinyl, ' set in the [...]

From 'Empire' to 'UnREAL' to 'How to Be Single' film and TV audiences have been exposed to Fil Eisler's diverse scoring style. In 'Newtown,' a documentary about the tragic shootings [...]

Imagine driving and shooting nine vehicles over 18,000 miles in 110 days, passing through 33 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. Producer Paul Barranco and his Fluid Films team did [...]

Paco Delgado, Oscar-nominated costume designer for 'The Danish Girl,' feels that personal statements made by the clothing in a film are just as important as period authenticity. This artistic choice [...]

Makeup artist Tym Buacharern has created designs for Cher and Janet Jackson. He's done the looks for 'Dreamgirls,' 'Glee,' 'So You Think You Can Dance' and the upcoming 'Miles Ahead.' [...]

As Amazon Studios' 'The Man in the High Castle' prepares for its second season, composer Dominic Lewis continues to create a score that ushers the story through a strange, alternate [...]

The labors of production designers aren't confined to interiors and man-made objects. Take, for instance, the work of Jack Fisk, nominated both for an Oscar and an Art Directors Guild [...]

David O. Russell wanted the look of 'Joy' to reflect the personal growth of entrepreneur Joy Mangano, played by Jennifer Lawrence, but not the times in which she lived. To [...]

From vast landscapes overshadowed by ominous storm clouds captured in-camera by d.p. Roger Deakins to bone-chilling stares between Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt, editor Joe Walker had a wealth [...]

For Odile Dicks-Mireaux, designing the costumes for 'Brooklyn' became a personal journey, because screenwriter Nick Hornby's storyline mirrored the postwar journey of her own parents. 'My mom left Paris to [...]

From a wintry East German city street to the interior of the U.S. Supreme Court, production designer Adam Stockhausen prepped a wide variety of sets for Steven Spielberg's Cold War-era [...]

While returning TV series tend to have their main talent in place, 'Fargo' was an exception, and casting director Rachel Tenner had to start season 2 from scratch. Fortunately, there [...]

Ford Riley knew his concept for 'The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar' was on target when he saw his son reenacting the story with toy animals. The animation vet--who [...]

While upcoming independent releases 'Brooklyn' and 'About Ray' present dissimilar emotional experiences for their characters, composer Michael Brook found ways to make both films resonate. 'They were both projects I [...]

What do Miles Davis in his psychedelic funk phase and the dueling bounty hunters in post-Civil War Wyoming have in common? Why hairstylist Camille Friend, of course. She worked on [...]

No material is off limits for 'The Voice' head costume designer Erin Hirsh--including the bullet casings and NASA-developed lightning technology she once worked into Kanye West's illuminated jacket and sunglasses. [...]

Hair department head Gloria Casny loves Johnny Depp's commitment to his characters. To achieve the distinctive, slicked-back look of mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger in 'Black Mass,' the actor had [...]

For Netflix's 'Narcos,' which follows the rise of the Colombian drug cartel, composer Pedro Bromfman wanted to infuse the score with an authentic flavor without relying on cliched Latin rhythms. [...]

'Pickle and Peanut' sounds like savory edible fare, but it's also the name of a new comically twisted animated series on Disney XD whose main characters are, well, a pickle [...]

On Sept. 12, the 'Deadliest Catch' cinematography team will learn whether they're taking home a fifth consecutive Emmy (and a sixth overall). Until then, though, they're prepping season 12 in [...]

The young Oksana Nedavniaya thought she would be a concert pianist, but her career took a turn when she attended a costume design panel at Comic-Con about a decade ago. [...]

There weren't a lot of people around to witness the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, but that didn't stop Daniel Gregoire and Steve Holtzman, founders of virtual reality shop [...]

The location shoot of 'Bailers'--HBO's sports comedy series starring Dwayne Johnson, renewed this month for a second season--presented a different kind of challenge for cinematographer Jaime Reynoso. He wasn't daunted [...]

When it comes to stunts, it's always safety first--and that includes finding the right trainers. Just ask Glenn Suter, who recruited hundreds of stunt actors from around the world specializing [...]

A panoply of ideas drove costume designer Lisa Padovani's choices for the first season of 'Gotham,' Fox's Batman origins series. Influenced by 'Blade Runner,' she mixed styles from all eras, [...]

When showrunner Ryan Murphy needed a composer to replace the exiting James Levine on 'American Horror Story,' producer Alexis Woodall thought of Mac Quayle, who had been an assistant composer [...]

'Dancing With the Stars' contestants manage to put their best foot forward despite the glare of lights and millions of live viewers judging their every move. Also feeling the pressure: [...]

As HBO's 'Game of Thrones' rises in popularity, so does the ferocity of its dragons. Creation of these monsters is overseen by vfx supervisor Sven Martin and vfx producer Viktorija [...]

Production designer Bruce Robert Hill loved the pilot that Will Forte wrote for 'The Last Man on Earth,' the new Fox post-apocalyptic comedy set in 2020 in which Forte stars. [...]