Oscar 2015 - Production Design

Production Design + Set Decoration to capture everything that gets nominated here, is this year a very easy category to predict. That's why I won't spend too much time with this entry, and I'll start with the winner: "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (well, if it won't be that one ...). The production design has a major impact in this movie's "economy". Basically, almost everything you see on screen was specifically designed to fit the movie tone, and also the locations were picked to comply with that too. The clip below is not complete enough from that perspective, the focus being only on the main location = the hotel, but even so I think it's quite eloquent ... Probably one of the best movies nominated here since "Sweeney Todd".
In "The Imitation Game" we have a re-creation of the Bletchley Park environment during WW2. Looks good, but as a I was saying, all nominees present here seem to be in a different league compared to the above one, so let's cut this short ...
"Interstellar" is a bit atypical for this section considering the percentage of SciFi nominations compared to time pieces. Well, in this case I assume the diversity of the locations did matter enough ...
"Into the Woods" is probably the only other nomination that gets a bit closer to "Grand Budapest". Unfortunately ... it sort of left me with a monotony feeling for the production design part. Maybe because most of the action takes place ... well .. into the woods ...
The reason why "Mr. Turner" shows up here is (as said before) mainly because is a time piece. And also maybe as a more peculiar aspect that it "features" lots of Turner's reproductions in the set decoration. But, that's pretty much everything about it ...