pirates of the caribbean - Cannes International Film Festival

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Wolski attended the Film School in Lodz. After emigrating to
the United States in 1979, he worked on documentaries, industrials and smaller
independent films. His first big break came in 1986 on the film “Heart” when he was
asked to replace the cinematographer who moved on to work on another project. Soon
after, Wolski moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a director of photography on
music videos and commercials for such directors as Alex Proyas, David Fincher, Tony
Scott and Jake Scott. He went on to work on the Roger Corman-produced feature
“Nightfall” and on the PBS American Playhouse production of “Land of Little Rain.”
Dariusz Wolski’s next assignment is Ridley Scott’s big-scale science fiction film,
“Prometheus.”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” represents JOHN MYHRE’s (Production
Designer) fifth collaboration with director Rob Marshall, following “Chicago,” “Memoirs
of a Geisha,” “Nine” and television’s “Tony Bennett: An American Classic.” Myhre was
honored with Academy Awards® for Best Achievement in Art Direction for both
“Chicago” and “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and was nominated for “Nine.” Myhre won an
Emmy Award® in the category of Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music or
Nonfiction Programming for “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” as well as an Art
Directors Guild Award for “Memoirs of a Geisha.”
Myhre received Oscar® nominations for both “Elizabeth” and “Dreamgirls,” BAFTA
Award nominations for “Elizabeth,” “Chicago” and “Memoirs of a Geisha” and Art
Directors Guild nominations for “Elizabeth,” “Chicago,” “Dreamgirls” and “Tony Bennett:
An American Classic.” He was also honored by the Hollywood Film Festival as Production
Designer of the Year in 2006.
Beginning his career as a property master, Myhre then served as art director for several
features before taking on full production design responsibilities in the early 1990s. In
addition to the above, Myhre’s other feature film credits as production designer have
included “Foxfire,” “Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina,” “X-Men,” “Ali,” “Haunted Mansion”
and “Wanted.”
PENNY ROSE (Costume Designer) has designed the costumes for Jerry Bruckheimer and
Gore Verbinski’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, as well as for “King Arthur” and
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” For “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl,” Rose received Costume Designers Guild nominations for all three “Pirates”
films, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations for “The
Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Dead Man’s Chest.”
Rose had received a previous BAFTA nomination for her work on director Alan Parker’s
acclaimed screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical “Evita,”
starring Madonna and Jonathan Pryce. Rose is a longtime collaborator of Parker’s and
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