Dyas previously received three consecutive Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his production design work on Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Superman Returns for Bryan Singer.
He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers.
Masoom, a 1983 Bollywood movie directed by film maker Shekhar Kapur, was a critically acclaimed adaptation of the novel featuring Bollywood superstars like Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Saeed Jaffery.
Bollywood film,Paani being directed by Shekhar Kapur is based on Blue Covenant: the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right.
Shekhar Kapur | Pankaj Kapur | Chandra Shekhar | Shekhar Suman | Shekhar C. Mande | Geeta Kapur |
In April 2008, Shekhar Kapur revealed that he was to direct and that he and Steven Knight had been doing the screenplay for three months.