Person
Grant Major
Art
- Known for
- Art
- Born
- Jan 1, 1955
- From
- Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand
Grant Major (born 1955) is a production designer from New Zealand who is most famous for his work on The Lord of the Rings films. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Major's early exposure to production design began when he joined an art school in Auckland after graduating. Following this, he got a job as an assistant set designer at the local television station. Description above from the Wikipedia article Grant Major, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Credits
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
No Way to Make a Living: A Look Back at 'The Frighteners'
New Zealand as Middle Earth
The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
King Kong
Green Lantern
The Dead Lands
Heavenly Creatures
The Power of the Dog
Dead Letters
The Secret Garden
Emperor