Ethan Tobman

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Ethan Tobman
Born (1979-05-30) 30 May 1979 (age 44)
Montreal, Canada
OccupationProduction designer
Director
Awards Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design

Ethan Tobman (born May 30, 1979) is a Canadian film production designer and director.

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Tobman is from Montreal. [1] He directed the short film Remote, which screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. [2] [3] The Hollywood Reporter positively reviewed Tobman's production design for the 2014 film That Awkward Moment. [4]

He served as production designer for the 2015 Canadian-Irish film Room , for which he and Mary Kirkland won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design. [5] In designing the eponymous Room set at Pinewood Toronto Studios, [6] he set out with the idea "that every square inch of Room needed to have a backstory." [7] Tobman also proposed an "inverted Rubik's Cube" for a set, with removable parts. [6] Tobman subsequently worked on Felix van Groeningen's 2018 Beautiful Boy . Using the house from the TV series Big Little Lies for a set, he made numerous alterations including to the counters. [8]

Tobman has also served as a production designer for music videos, including "Formation" and "Lemonade" by Beyoncé. [9] [10] In 2014, for the music video "The Writing's on the Wall" by the U.S. band OK Go, he was tasked with helping create a number of perspective illusions. [11] He served as creative director and production designer for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour concert tour and its related concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour . [12]

He won the Juno Award for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024, for his music video for Allison Russell's "Demons". [13]

Filmography

Films

Visual albums

Music videos

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