The only surprise today with Nosferatu’s four Oscar nominations is that four of the six nominees have somehow never been nominated before.
Though if you ask the nominees, every film they’ve worked on together is just a way to hone their skills for the next project. “Film by film, starting with The Witch moving through The Lighthouse into The Northman and Nosferatu, as a group of collaborators, I think we have honed the skills required to choose what’s pertinent to tell the story and produce it to a really high degree,” says costume designer Linda Muir, who received her first Oscar nomination this morning.
Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke was nominated in 2020 for The Lighthouse, which was the only nomination for the film. “Last time it just felt like sort of a fluke thing, just sort of me as an island,” he says. “We’re just sort of hoping to build off of each other every time.
We’re two films further along [since The Lighthouse] so all that’s elevated and becoming more elevated, and it’s deepened all these relationships. “Jarin, Linda, Lou [Ford], myself and of course Rob [Eggers] have been together since The Witch and we’ve added more and more people to that family as we’ve gone along, all once again because of Rob.
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