WAR HORSE Production Notes

WAR HORSE (2011)PRODUCTION NOTESJOANNA JOHNSTON (Costume Designer) began her career assisting Academy Award®–winning costume designer Anthony Powell on such films as "Evil Under the Sun," "Death on theNile" and Roman Polanski's "Tess." Johnston also assisted him with his work on "Indiana Jonesand the Temple of Doom."She served as assistant designer to Milena Canonero on "Out of Africa," for which Canonero wasnominated for an Oscar®. She also assisted Tom Rand on his Oscar-nominated work for "TheFrench Lieutenant's Woman" and on "The Shooting Party."As a costume designer she has enjoyed a long association with Steven Spielberg, working onsuch films as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "Saving Private Ryan," "War of the Worlds"and "Munich." She has also collaborated frequently with Robert Zemeckis on films including"Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Back to the Future Part II," "Back to the Future Part III," "DeathBecomes Her," "Contact," "Cast Away," "The Polar Express" and the Academy Award®–winning "Forrest Gump."Johnston's other features include M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable";Paul and Chris Weitz's "About a Boy," for which she was a Costume Designers Guild Awardnominee; and Richard Curtis' "Love Actually."She has also worked with Bryan Singer on "Valkyrie" and most recently completed work on his"Jack the Giant Killer."BEN MORRIS (Visual Effects Supervisor) began his career designing performance controlsystems for projects such asGeorge Miller's "Babe" and supervised the creation of CG people for Ridley Scott's "Gladiator."He joined Framestorein 2000 as part of the VFX team on "Dinotopia," where he integrated the motion rig and motioncontrolcamera with in-house CG character animation systems, for which he won Emmy® andVES (Visual Effects Society) awards.The Squirrel Room sequence in Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" gave him theopportunity to further develop the character pipeline. Morris led the team that created the leadCG characters of Lorek, Ragnar and a host of other armored bears in Chris Weitz's "The GoldenCompass," for which he won the Academy Award® and BAFTA for Best Visual Effects.On Mike Newell's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," he created the CG vipers and CGenvironments for the film's climactic showdown in the Sand Room.© 2011 DreamWorks Pictures 44