Ethan Tobman | |
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Born | Montreal, Canada | 30 May 1979
Occupation | Production 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.
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]
Tobman has been the recipient of three Art Directors Guild Awards: "Black Is King," directed by Beyoncé (2020); [13] "All Too Well: The Short Film," by Taylor Swift (2021); [14] and "I Can See You," by Taylor Swift (2023). [15] He has also been nominated for three MTV Music Video Awards for Art Direction: "Not Afraid," by Eminem (2010); [16] "Willow," by Taylor Swift (2020); [17] and "Fortnight," by Taylor Swift (2024). [18]
Tobman won the Juno Award for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024, for his music video for Allison Russell's "Demons." [19] In the same year, the Prism Prize named Tobman as the recipient of its Special Achievement Award. [20]