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Production Designer Stuart Craig to Receive Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Art Director of the Year Award at Festival's 8Th Annual Awards Presentation, Oct. 18
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2004--Three-time Academy Award-winning Production Designer Stuart Craig will receive the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Art Director of the Year Award at the Festival's October 18 awards ceremony. His selection was determined by a recommendation of the Council of the Art Directors Guild (ADG). Craig is the Production Designer of all three Harry Potter films, including the current release, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," as well as the fourth now in production, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
The award will be presented to Craig during the Festival's black-tie awards ceremony banquet before a gathering of 1,000 industry and guild executives, stars, celebrities, filmmakers and media, from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Previous recipients of these Art Direction honors are Production Designers William Creber, Harold Michelson, Robert Boyle and Henry Bumstead.
Craig's three Academy Awards were for "Gandhi," "Dangerous Liaisons" and "The English Patient." He was also nominated for four other films: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Chaplin," "The Mission" and "Elephant Man." The Art Directors Guild Awards voted Craig its Excellence in Production Design Award for a Feature Film in 1997 for "The English Patient." He is also a nine-time nominee for BAFTA Awards, winning in 1981 for "Elephant Man."
His other major credits from a career that dates back 24 years include "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes," "Notting Hill" and "The Legend of Bagger Vance."
