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When it comes to cinema, production designer Judy Becker considers Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and David Fincher’s Se7en her first loves. “At the times these films came out, I was not a production designer,” Becker recalls. “But I think what attracted me — and many other designers — to them was the utter believability of the mythic worlds they took place in.”
Early in her career, Becker dabbled in production design, set dressing and decorating, before cementing herself in the former and going on to design such films as Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Carol (2015).
“I came to production design as someone who has always loved movies. I also loved art, design, architecture and photography,” she says, “so discovering that I could have a career that combined all my loves was one of the greatest moments of my life.”
Becker earned an Oscar nomination for Best Production Design for her work on 2013’s American Hustle, shared with set decorator Heather Loeffler. A longtime collaborator of David O. Russell, she also worked on The Fighter (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Joy (2015). She reteams with the filmmaker for his latest film, Amsterdam, a period crime drama starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington as three friends at the center of a murder mystery.
“I definitely have a realism-based approach to filmmaking — most of the worlds I create are fictional, but within the context of the film my goal is to make them feel real, grounded, worn, authentic,” Becker explains. “Believability and realism in the context of the story are the only things I care about; my goal is for the design to be part of the cohesive whole… People often compliment me by telling me they loved my work , but the best compliment is when they say they loved the movie.”
Below, Becker shares with A.frame the five films that most influenced her approach to production design.
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