Four-time Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz will perform for Sunday’s emotional “In Memoriam” segment on the Oscars 2023 ceremony. While only 40-50 people are generally remembered for the television ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on ABC, over 200 people will be recognized on the Academy’s webpage starting that evening.
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Here is a lengthy list of many contributors to film who died since last year’s Academy Awards ceremony:
Mary Alice (actor)
Gil Alkabetz (animator)
Kirstie Alley (actor)
Burt Bacharach (composer)
Angelo Badalamenti (composer)
Simone Bär (casting director)
Joanna Barnes (actor)
Carl A. Bell (animator)
Jeff Berlin (sound)
David Birney (actor)
Bruce Bisenz (sound)
Robert Blake (actor)
Eliot Bliss (sound)
Nick Bosustow (shorts)
Albert Brenner (production designer)
Tom Bronson (costume designer)
James Caan (actor)
Michael Callan (actor)
Donn Cambern (editor)
Irene Cara (songwriter)
Gary W. Carlson (sound)
Marvin Chomsky...
SEEWho is Performing at the Oscars 2023?: Full List of Presenters and Performers
Here is a lengthy list of many contributors to film who died since last year’s Academy Awards ceremony:
Mary Alice (actor)
Gil Alkabetz (animator)
Kirstie Alley (actor)
Burt Bacharach (composer)
Angelo Badalamenti (composer)
Simone Bär (casting director)
Joanna Barnes (actor)
Carl A. Bell (animator)
Jeff Berlin (sound)
David Birney (actor)
Bruce Bisenz (sound)
Robert Blake (actor)
Eliot Bliss (sound)
Nick Bosustow (shorts)
Albert Brenner (production designer)
Tom Bronson (costume designer)
James Caan (actor)
Michael Callan (actor)
Donn Cambern (editor)
Irene Cara (songwriter)
Gary W. Carlson (sound)
Marvin Chomsky...
- 3/10/2023
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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Albert Brenner, the innovative production designer, art director and five-time Oscar nominee whose work was admired in films from Fail Safe, Bullitt and Point Blank to The Sunshine Boys, The Turning Point and Backdraft, has died. He was 96.
Brenner died Thursday in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced.
The Brooklyn native started his career dressing mannequins for window displays and worked on such TV shows as Car 54, Where Are You? before progressing to a much larger canvas — designing the five-acre New York Street backlot for Paramount in Hollywood after the original was destroyed by fire in August 1983.
Across his 50-plus-year career, Brenner collaborated on eight features with director Garry Marshall, seven with Herbert Ross, five with Peter Hyams, three with Sidney Lumet and two with Robert Mulligan. Comedies, sci-fi flicks, Westerns, period pieces — he did them all.
Of...
Albert Brenner, the innovative production designer, art director and five-time Oscar nominee whose work was admired in films from Fail Safe, Bullitt and Point Blank to The Sunshine Boys, The Turning Point and Backdraft, has died. He was 96.
Brenner died Thursday in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced.
The Brooklyn native started his career dressing mannequins for window displays and worked on such TV shows as Car 54, Where Are You? before progressing to a much larger canvas — designing the five-acre New York Street backlot for Paramount in Hollywood after the original was destroyed by fire in August 1983.
Across his 50-plus-year career, Brenner collaborated on eight features with director Garry Marshall, seven with Herbert Ross, five with Peter Hyams, three with Sidney Lumet and two with Robert Mulligan. Comedies, sci-fi flicks, Westerns, period pieces — he did them all.
Of...
- 12/12/2022
- by Rhett Bartlett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.
A 2003 recipient of the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Brenner scored Best Art Direction/Set Decoration Academy Award nominations for Beaches (1988), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), California Suite (1978), The Turning Point (1977) and The Sunshine Boys (1975).
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Born on February 17, 1926, in New York City, Brenner served in the Air Force during World War II. His training later at the Yale School of Drama proved invaluable when...
A 2003 recipient of the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Brenner scored Best Art Direction/Set Decoration Academy Award nominations for Beaches (1988), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), California Suite (1978), The Turning Point (1977) and The Sunshine Boys (1975).
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Born on February 17, 1926, in New York City, Brenner served in the Air Force during World War II. His training later at the Yale School of Drama proved invaluable when...
- 12/12/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Film and television production designer Albert Brenner died on Dec. 8 at the age of 96. His wife of more than 40 years, Susan, was by his side. Some of his prominent credits included production work on “Bullitt,” “The Turning Point,” “Beaches,” “Sunshine Boys” and “California Suite.”
Brenner’s talent was well-respected within the industry, notching him five Academy Awards nominations for best art direction throughout his long-spanning career, for “Beaches,” “California Suite,” “Sunshine Boys,” “The Turning Point” and “2010: The Year We Make Contact.” Brenner worked on 57 films across four decades in the entertainment industry. In addition, Brenner served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors along with a stint as the President of the Society of Art Directors. His contributions to the profession of production design was acknowledged by the Art Directors Guild with a Lifetime Achievement award in 2003.
Born on February 17, 1926 and raised in Brooklyn,...
Brenner’s talent was well-respected within the industry, notching him five Academy Awards nominations for best art direction throughout his long-spanning career, for “Beaches,” “California Suite,” “Sunshine Boys,” “The Turning Point” and “2010: The Year We Make Contact.” Brenner worked on 57 films across four decades in the entertainment industry. In addition, Brenner served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors along with a stint as the President of the Society of Art Directors. His contributions to the profession of production design was acknowledged by the Art Directors Guild with a Lifetime Achievement award in 2003.
Born on February 17, 1926 and raised in Brooklyn,...
- 12/12/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Growing up among his native Brooklyn’s brick-and-fire-escape facades in the 1930’s, production designer-to-be Albert Brenner often dreamed of the wide open spaces depicted in his favorite Saturday-matinee Westerns. At 16, he landed his first “art job”: dressing windows for a New York City department store.
Two years later, Brenner swapped mannequins for military service and flew in B-24 bombers until World War II ended in 1945. On the G.I. Bill, he attended Yale University, graduating with skills in drafting, and went into summer stock theater under designer Samuel Leve, toiling away on plays like “The Fifth Season” and gaining a union card in the process.
He developed his designer chops in New York on TV shows like “The Phil Silvers Show,” “Car 54, Where Are You?” “Captain Kangaroo” and “Playhouse 90.” His first day on the Silvers show, where he eventually earned $250 a week, was nearly his last, when he...
Two years later, Brenner swapped mannequins for military service and flew in B-24 bombers until World War II ended in 1945. On the G.I. Bill, he attended Yale University, graduating with skills in drafting, and went into summer stock theater under designer Samuel Leve, toiling away on plays like “The Fifth Season” and gaining a union card in the process.
He developed his designer chops in New York on TV shows like “The Phil Silvers Show,” “Car 54, Where Are You?” “Captain Kangaroo” and “Playhouse 90.” His first day on the Silvers show, where he eventually earned $250 a week, was nearly his last, when he...
- 9/28/2018
- by James C. Udel
- Variety Film + TV
We’re on the road again with a pair of eccentric new-age hobos, the kind that just can’t hack it in polite society. Gene Hackman and Al Pacino’s conflicting acting styles get a workout in Jerry Schatzberg’s tale of drifters cursed with iffy goals; Vilmos Zsigmond’s Panavision cinematography helped it earn a big prize at Cannes.
Scarecrow
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1973 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penny Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Evan Lottman, Craig McKay
Production Design: Albert Brenner
Original Music: Fred Myrow
Written by Garry Michael White
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Movie-wise, everything was up in the air in the early 1970s. The view from Westwood in West Los Angeles, then the place to go see a film,...
Scarecrow
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1973 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penny Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Evan Lottman, Craig McKay
Production Design: Albert Brenner
Original Music: Fred Myrow
Written by Garry Michael White
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Movie-wise, everything was up in the air in the early 1970s. The view from Westwood in West Los Angeles, then the place to go see a film,...
- 11/25/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
"The Furniture" is our weekly series on Production Design. Here's Daniel Walber...
Beaches, despite its enormous and enduring cultural imprint, still retains some surprises. It’s not subtle at all, yet it also contains countless little details, both of performance and design. It’s a melodrama that rewards rewatching, not only for the ritual of crying along with a beloved tearjerker, but also for the charismatic density of its images. And so, heeding the call of Nathaniel’s obituary and reappraisal of Garry Marshall’s long career (and a comment from Craver), here’s a look at the Oscar-nominated production design of Beaches.
The color palette of the film is almost schematic. That’s not a slight against production designer Albert Brenner and set decorator Garrett Lewis, either. It works, this insistence on pinks and greens reaching its emotional pinnacle along with the characters.
To be sure, Oscar nomination is...
Beaches, despite its enormous and enduring cultural imprint, still retains some surprises. It’s not subtle at all, yet it also contains countless little details, both of performance and design. It’s a melodrama that rewards rewatching, not only for the ritual of crying along with a beloved tearjerker, but also for the charismatic density of its images. And so, heeding the call of Nathaniel’s obituary and reappraisal of Garry Marshall’s long career (and a comment from Craver), here’s a look at the Oscar-nominated production design of Beaches.
The color palette of the film is almost schematic. That’s not a slight against production designer Albert Brenner and set decorator Garrett Lewis, either. It works, this insistence on pinks and greens reaching its emotional pinnacle along with the characters.
To be sure, Oscar nomination is...
- 7/25/2016
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Martin Scorsese's Hugo (period film), David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (fantasy film), and David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (contemporary film) were the feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild's 16th Excellence in Production Design Awards, held this evening at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The respective production design winners were Dante Ferretti (photo), Stuart Craig, and Donald Graham Burt. [Full list of 2012 Art Directors Guild winners and nominees.] Both Ferretti (with frequent collaborator/set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo) and Craig (with set decorator Stephenie McMillan ) are in the running for the Best Art Direction Academy Award. Their competitors are Laurence Bennett and set decorator Robert Gould for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Anne Seibel and set decorator Hélène Dubreuil for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, and Rick Carter and set decorator Lee Sandales for Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Among the...
- 2/5/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hugo, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo took the Art Directors Guild Awards for period, fantasy and contemporary movies tonight in ceremonies hosted by Paula Poundstone at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Production Designer Tony Walton received the Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Hall of Fame inductees were Robert Boyle, William Darling, and Alfred Junge. Teams from the Harry Potter films were recognized for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery: Executive Producer David Heyman, Producer David Barron; directors Christopher Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, and David Yates; creator and author J.K. Rowling; screenwriters Steve Kloves and Michael Goldenberg; production designer Stuart Craig; art director Neil Lamont and set decorator Stephenie McMillan. The Guild also screened two short films by Cindy Peters. The first was a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the show. The second, 75 Years of Inspirational Design: A Personal Reflection in Eight Chapters featured production designers Albert Brenner,...
- 2/5/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
HollywoodNews.com:The Art Directors Guild (Adg announced winners of its 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in nine categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during black-tie ceremonies at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The awards took place before an audience of more than 700, including guild members, industry executives, studio heads and press. Adg President Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony with Paula Poundstone serving as host for the third consecutive year. Ben Vereen performed as a special musical guest. Production Designer Tony Walton was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Hall of Fame inductees were Robert Boyle, William Darling, and Alfred Junge. The team from the Harry Potter films, including Executive Producer David Heyman, Producer David Barron; directors Christopher Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, and David Yates; creator and author J.K. Rowling; screenwriters Steve Kloves and Michael Goldenberg...
- 2/5/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Production Designer and Costume Designer Patricia Norris, a frequent David Lynch collaborator, will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Adg's 15th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 5, 2011, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Norris, only the second woman to be awarded the Adg's Lifetime Achievement Award (Jan Scott was the first in 2001), has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the Best Costume Design category: Days of Heaven (1978), The Elephant Man (1980), Victor Victoria (1982), 2010 (1984), and Sunset (1989). Previous recipients of Adg Lifetime Achievement Awards are Production Designers Ken Adam, Robert Boyle, Albert Brenner, Henry Bumstead, Roy Christopher, Stuart Craig, Bill Creber, John Mansbridge, Terence Marsh, Harold Michelson, Jan Scott, Paul Sylbert and Dean Tavoularis. The information below is the Adg's press release: Norris began her career in the film industry as a stock girl in the wardrobe department at MGM [...]...
- 11/22/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
HollywoodNews.com: Academy Award-winning Production Designer and Costume Designer Patricia Norris will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Art Directors Guild’s 15th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 5, 2011, it was announced today by Thomas A. Walsh, Adg Council President, and Awards co-producers Dawn Snyder and Tom Wilkins. The award will be presented at a black-tie industry gathering at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Norris began her career in the film industry as a stock girl in the wardrobe department at MGM Studios and worked her way up to become one of the industry’s most respected craft persons. In announcing this honor, Adg President Walsh said, “Patricia is one of only a very few American designers who have been able to successfully combine the dual practices of production and costume design for film and television.” She holds dual production and costume design credits for works...
Norris began her career in the film industry as a stock girl in the wardrobe department at MGM Studios and worked her way up to become one of the industry’s most respected craft persons. In announcing this honor, Adg President Walsh said, “Patricia is one of only a very few American designers who have been able to successfully combine the dual practices of production and costume design for film and television.” She holds dual production and costume design credits for works...
- 11/22/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Art Directors Guild (Adg) gathered for the 14th Annual 'Excellence in 2009 Production Design Awards' February 13, @ the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills.
Established in 1937, The Art Directors Guild (Iatse Local 800) represents 2,000 members from the Us, Canada and internationally, as Production Designers, Art Directors, Assistant Art Directors, Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists, Illustrators, Matte Artists, Set Designers and Model Makers.
Over 700 attended the event, presided by Adg Chairman Thomas A. Walsh, with comedian Paula Poundstone hosting, starting off with a short film by director Cindy Peters.
Honorary awards were presented to Production Designer Terence Marsh for 'Lifetime Achievement', to Warren Beatty for 'Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery' and to Production Designer Michael Baugh for 'Creative Leadership'.
Presenters included Kevin Alejandro ("Southland"); director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"); Jim Bissell (Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences); Albert Brenner (Production Designer); Rick Carter (Production Designer); Richard Chamberlain ("Shogun...
Established in 1937, The Art Directors Guild (Iatse Local 800) represents 2,000 members from the Us, Canada and internationally, as Production Designers, Art Directors, Assistant Art Directors, Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists, Illustrators, Matte Artists, Set Designers and Model Makers.
Over 700 attended the event, presided by Adg Chairman Thomas A. Walsh, with comedian Paula Poundstone hosting, starting off with a short film by director Cindy Peters.
Honorary awards were presented to Production Designer Terence Marsh for 'Lifetime Achievement', to Warren Beatty for 'Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery' and to Production Designer Michael Baugh for 'Creative Leadership'.
Presenters included Kevin Alejandro ("Southland"); director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"); Jim Bissell (Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences); Albert Brenner (Production Designer); Rick Carter (Production Designer); Richard Chamberlain ("Shogun...
- 2/14/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Santa Claus, the Clintons' cat, the Easter Bunny and, most optimistically, God are the entities that people write letters to and whose missives end up in the dead-letter section of the post office.
In this Capraesque comedy, Greg Kinnear stars as a guardian angel-type postal employee who tries to answer the "Dear God" letters. It's warm and cozy, and Paramount should win over mainstream hearts with this sweet holiday-set comedy. But it will need to deliver an astute marketing campaign to attract viewers amid the mass of bigger star vehicles. Down the line, "Dear God" would make a perfect cable offering, say, for the Family Channel.
Since George Burns is no longer with us, God himself does not make a personal appearance in this Garry Marshall-directed comedy, which focuses on a breezy con man named Tom Turner (Kinnear). Tom is into petty street scams, ostensibly to pay off his gambling debts. During the Hollywood Christmas Parade he's busted and the judge gives him two options: get a job or go to jail. It's a toughie for Tom, but he lands at the post office, consigned to the dead-letter section. It's a mysterious underground-type place where his co-workers are a colorful and somewhat crazed batch of slackers. Between goofing off, their days are filled with tossing dead letters into bins, and Tom gets assigned the "God" bin.
Essentially, screenwriters Warren Leight and Ed Kaplan's scenario is a modern-day parable of the biblical story of doubting Thomas. In this case, the tale is adeptly transposed to a reluctant postal worker and skeptic of human nature, Tom. Down in that dreary mailroom Tom undergoes an epiphany, overcome by charitable and humane urges. Not surprisingly, it's not an easy transposition and Tom's new outlook is a source of conflict. Coupling an absurdist's sensibility with a humanitarian sensitivity, the screenwriters have spun a breezy yet touching tale. Unfortunately, the narrative is also somewhat diffuse and scattered in its overly busy subplotting. However, director Garry Marshall's savvy dexterity, mixing slapstick with pathos, keeps things at a merry pace. Admittedly, things do get somewhat corny and are clearly borrowed from previous Capra heartwarmers, but these transgressions are minor and don't detract from the film's overall uplifting effect.
Kinnear is strong as the lead, both slippery and solid, while Tim Conway stands out as a burned-out postal employee. In a brief appearance, Nancy Marchand is perfect as a comic foil, a stern, fair-minded judge whose Solomon-like wisdom is put to the test. Director Marshall makes an appearance as the irate postmaster general; as he has done with other similar cameo roles, Marshall is once again highly entertaining as a frenzied and somewhat demented authority figure.
Tech contributions are well-realized, particularly production designer Albert Brenner's slightly cracked Christmas look and Jeremy Lubbock and James Patrick Dunne's jaunty and sunny score.
DEAR GOD
Paramount
In association with Rysher Entertainment
A Steve Tisch production
A Garry Marshall film
Producer Steve Tisch
Director Garry Marshall
Screenwriters Warren Leight, Ed Kaplan
Executive producer Mario Iscovich
Director of photography Charles Minsky
Production designer Albert Brenner
Editor Debra Neil-Fisher
Music Jeremy Lubbock, James Patrick Dunne
Casting Carrie Frazier
Co-producers Ellen H. Schwartz, Kearie Peak
Associate producers Angel Pine,
Karen Stirgwolt
Sound mixer James Webb Jr.
Costume designers Robin Borman,
Lynda Foote, Annie Culotta
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tom Turner Greg Kinnear
Rebecca Frazen Laurie Metcalf
Gloria McKinney Maria Pitillo
Herman Dooly Tim Conway
Vladek Vidov Hector Elizondo
Handsome Jon Seda
Idris Abraham Roscoe Lee Browne
Lucille Anna Maria Horsford
Whispering Wendy Kathleen Marshall
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
In this Capraesque comedy, Greg Kinnear stars as a guardian angel-type postal employee who tries to answer the "Dear God" letters. It's warm and cozy, and Paramount should win over mainstream hearts with this sweet holiday-set comedy. But it will need to deliver an astute marketing campaign to attract viewers amid the mass of bigger star vehicles. Down the line, "Dear God" would make a perfect cable offering, say, for the Family Channel.
Since George Burns is no longer with us, God himself does not make a personal appearance in this Garry Marshall-directed comedy, which focuses on a breezy con man named Tom Turner (Kinnear). Tom is into petty street scams, ostensibly to pay off his gambling debts. During the Hollywood Christmas Parade he's busted and the judge gives him two options: get a job or go to jail. It's a toughie for Tom, but he lands at the post office, consigned to the dead-letter section. It's a mysterious underground-type place where his co-workers are a colorful and somewhat crazed batch of slackers. Between goofing off, their days are filled with tossing dead letters into bins, and Tom gets assigned the "God" bin.
Essentially, screenwriters Warren Leight and Ed Kaplan's scenario is a modern-day parable of the biblical story of doubting Thomas. In this case, the tale is adeptly transposed to a reluctant postal worker and skeptic of human nature, Tom. Down in that dreary mailroom Tom undergoes an epiphany, overcome by charitable and humane urges. Not surprisingly, it's not an easy transposition and Tom's new outlook is a source of conflict. Coupling an absurdist's sensibility with a humanitarian sensitivity, the screenwriters have spun a breezy yet touching tale. Unfortunately, the narrative is also somewhat diffuse and scattered in its overly busy subplotting. However, director Garry Marshall's savvy dexterity, mixing slapstick with pathos, keeps things at a merry pace. Admittedly, things do get somewhat corny and are clearly borrowed from previous Capra heartwarmers, but these transgressions are minor and don't detract from the film's overall uplifting effect.
Kinnear is strong as the lead, both slippery and solid, while Tim Conway stands out as a burned-out postal employee. In a brief appearance, Nancy Marchand is perfect as a comic foil, a stern, fair-minded judge whose Solomon-like wisdom is put to the test. Director Marshall makes an appearance as the irate postmaster general; as he has done with other similar cameo roles, Marshall is once again highly entertaining as a frenzied and somewhat demented authority figure.
Tech contributions are well-realized, particularly production designer Albert Brenner's slightly cracked Christmas look and Jeremy Lubbock and James Patrick Dunne's jaunty and sunny score.
DEAR GOD
Paramount
In association with Rysher Entertainment
A Steve Tisch production
A Garry Marshall film
Producer Steve Tisch
Director Garry Marshall
Screenwriters Warren Leight, Ed Kaplan
Executive producer Mario Iscovich
Director of photography Charles Minsky
Production designer Albert Brenner
Editor Debra Neil-Fisher
Music Jeremy Lubbock, James Patrick Dunne
Casting Carrie Frazier
Co-producers Ellen H. Schwartz, Kearie Peak
Associate producers Angel Pine,
Karen Stirgwolt
Sound mixer James Webb Jr.
Costume designers Robin Borman,
Lynda Foote, Annie Culotta
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tom Turner Greg Kinnear
Rebecca Frazen Laurie Metcalf
Gloria McKinney Maria Pitillo
Herman Dooly Tim Conway
Vladek Vidov Hector Elizondo
Handsome Jon Seda
Idris Abraham Roscoe Lee Browne
Lucille Anna Maria Horsford
Whispering Wendy Kathleen Marshall
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 10/25/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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