These are the green rooms where Oscar nominees spend some quiet moment to calm their nerves, away from the backstage madness. So these spaces have to be highly glamourous, sophisticated as well as comfortable. And designers take great pains to do up the spaces with different themes every year. Here are some glimpses ...
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AD100 interior designer Waldo Fernandez was inspired by the iconic of Hollywood decorator Billy Haines. The space included a library with entirely hand-painted book jackets that feature images from the AMPAS archives, including Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 and Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
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RogerThomas designed the 2010 greenroom around a custom paint-splattered floor. He says he imagined that this “would have been how the floor looked when they were painting the sets of my favorite movies.”
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Interior designer MichaelS. Smith was inspired by the 1930s and ’40s when creating his 2011 greenroom design, because it was a period of time, he says, that “really established what we think of as Hollywood glamour.” He conceived a luxe and tailored library setting, complete with a sophisticated color palette, wood-paneled walls, a gold-leafed ceiling, and comfortable furnishings.
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84th Annual Academy Awards
AD100 interior designer Waldo Fernandez was inspired by the iconic of Hollywood decorator Billy Haines. The space included a library with entirely hand-painted book jackets that feature images from the AMPAS archives, including Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 and Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
82nd Annual Academy Awards
RogerThomas designed the 2010 greenroom around a custom paint-splattered floor. He says he imagined that this “would have been how the floor looked when they were painting the sets of my favorite movies.”
83rd Annual Academy Awards
Interior designer MichaelS. Smith was inspired by the 1930s and ’40s when creating his 2011 greenroom design, because it was a period of time, he says, that “really established what we think of as Hollywood glamour.” He conceived a luxe and tailored library setting, complete with a sophisticated color palette, wood-paneled walls, a gold-leafed ceiling, and comfortable furnishings.
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StephenShadley is a scenic artist turned interior designer to movie stars such as
Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Jennifer Aniston. Using a
photographic backdrop of the Los Angeles skyline as the focal point in his 2009
Architectural Digest Greenroom design, Shadley created a lounge area
reminiscent of a chic 1970s modern home with a panoramic view of the city from
the Hollywood Hills.
