Grant Major
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New Zealand art director and production designer
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- Works
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- Piobaireachd
- Piobaireachd: its origin and construction. (Tus is Alt a'Chiuil-Mhoir.)
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- No Way to Make a Living: A Look Back at 'The Frighteners' — Self2022
- New Zealand as Middle Earth — Self2002
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images — Self2002
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design — Self2002
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth — Self2002
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale — Self2002
- Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' — Self2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Major
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Palmerston North
- Occupation
- production designer
- Official website
- www.grantmajor.com
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- date of birth
- 1955-01-01
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Production Design
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- name in native language
- Grant Major
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