Dallas designer sees team get Oscar nod for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Robert Winn helped create the backdrop against which Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis starred. His team picked up a nomination for production design.
Robert Winn worked on the team that received an Oscar nomination for Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. (Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
It wasn’t his first encounter with the Academy Awards. Winn was part of the design team that won an Oscar for the 2010 film
Alice in Wonderland.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Winn helped simulate a recording studio in 1927 Chicago. The movie earned five Oscar nominations, including best actress (Viola Davis) and best actor (the late Chadwick Boseman, who recently won a posthumous Golden Globe for best actor in a drama).