‘Wonderful and surreal’ Oscars win for West Midlands production designers

Price and Heath have already won an Art Directors Guild Award, as well as accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) and the Set Decorators Society of America alongside the film’s set decorator, Zsuzsa Mihalek.

They said the last few weeks had been a bit crazy.

“So this is crazy. I feel in the mood for love and custard tarts really,” Mr Price said accepting the award.

The former Wigmore School pupil thanked his “partner-in-crime” Ms Heath, calling her the “art department Bella”, referring to the film’s protagonist, Bella Baxter.

Speaking to the BBC afterwards Ms Heath thanked her mum and everyone she went to The Alice Ottley School with in Worcester.

She also said she had an Oscars chocolate in her bag which she was going to give to her son.

Speaking from a limousine on the way to the Searchlight Pictures after party, Ms Heath said she and Mr Price had prepared a speech, but decided they wanted to ad-lib it instead.

“James started to go off-piste with custard tarts so I think we both got a bit thrown, but I don’t even know what I said. It all goes blank up there,” she said.

Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, tells the story of Bella Baxter, a woman who is brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist.

The film had been nominated for 11 awards inclouding one for Shropshire composer Jerskin Fendrix for best music (original score).