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Wednesday, March 06, 2019

2019 Oscars Lighting Design | 91st Academy Awards

www.livedesignonline.com: Lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Travis Hagenbuch—both 2018 KOI-USA Award winners—lit the 91st Academy Awards, illuminating sets by David Korins for a glamorous evening. The Oscars were broadcast live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 24, attracting 29.6 million viewers. Live Design chats with the LDs on challenging aspects of this live-for-broadcast celebration of Hollywood.

1 comment:

Sophie Nakai said...

I love the photo with the umbrellas. I think it is beautiful and the designers did an amazing job. I love lighting design because the use of colors can be so nice and create the most beautiful things. I, however, cannot do it. I have tried and not ever understood how they can combine the colors because I am used to mixing colors like paint and not as light. I really want to understand because I feel like it is a useful skill to know for any career in theater. Especially since I am interested in dance costuming and lighting is a lot more diverse in that area. I think that the Oscars is an interesting place for this amount of lighting design but I also understand the need for this award ceremony to have a lot of grandeur. I am excited to see how this evolves over the next couple of years because it can go so many places with new technology and ideas.