Martin Laing is a British
production designer
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.
Martin Laing was born and raised in England, the son of
Academy Award
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-winning
production designer
In film and television, the production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Wo ...
Robert W. Laing
Robert W. Laing is a British production designer, art director and set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.
Selected filmography
Laing won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction a ...
. During his childhood he traveled the world on location with his father and spent all of his free time on film sets. After attending design college in London, he joined the film industry in 1985 and began what is now a 21-year career in the
art department
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. Laing moved to Los Angeles in 1993.
He received the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Award in
1997
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, assisting
Peter Lamont
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on ''
Titanic
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'' and he was nominated for the Satellite Award in
2008
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in
Best Art Direction & Production Design on ''
City of Ember
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''.
Selected filmography
;Production Designer
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This Means War'' (
2012
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)
*''
Clash of the Titans'' (
2010
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)
*''
Terminator Salvation
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'' (
2009
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)
*''
City of Ember
''City of Ember'' is a 2008 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2003 novel '' The City of Ember'' by Jeanne DuPrau. Directed by Gil Kenan in his live-action directorial debut, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, B ...
'' (
2008
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)
*''
Ghosts of the Abyss
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'' (
2003
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)
;Art Director
*''
Pearl Harbor
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'' (
2001
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)
*''
The Haunting'' (
1999
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)
*''
In Dreams'' (
1999
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)
*''
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unite ...
'' (
1997
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)
References
External links
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English art directors
English designers
Living people
British film designers
Year of birth missing (living people)