If the look of any film this year is clearly the product of many individuals, it is "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Art director Rick Heinrichs already is thinking about how to recognize everyone who had a hand in creating everything from the ships and the menacing sea serpent to the cages of human bones and a runaway water wheel -- without whipping out a list a mile long -- should he win the Oscar. "They tell you not to go up there with a laundry list, which I did the first time ('Sleepy Hollow'). And I learned a year later that they used my acceptance speech (at the Oscar nominees' luncheon) as an example of what not to do," he said.
"And I was nominated again for 'Lemony Snicket.' That was the year they were playing around with it and they had all five nominees up there on the stage at the same time. That was not good because you're standing there and you're the loser."