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Patrizia von Brandenstein is a Production Design and Costume Design American born on 15 april 1943 at Arizona (USA)
Patrizia von Brandenstein (born 15 April 1943) is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy contemporary fare.
She was born in Arizona to German Russian emigrant parents. Her education abroad closed with two years as an apprentice at the famed Comédie Française. She started with the off-Broadway scene of 1960s New York at the Actors Studio and La MaMa as a seamstress, prop maker and scene painter. 1966 saw the real start of her career in design with an eight-year stay creating costumes and sets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco under William Ball. She also met future husband and fellow production designer Stuart Wurtzel. She has designed movies in a wide range of subjects, styles, and periods: from the low-budget, break-dancing musical Beat Street to the expensive plutonium-plant melodrama Silkwood.
Director Neil Burger, in his DVD commentary for Limitless, singles out von Brandenstein for her excellent work on the film.
De retour aux États-Unis, elle étudie notamment à la Art Students League of New York. Elle commence sa carrière comme costumière, d'abord Off-Broadway, puis elle obtient un poste à l'American Conservatory Theater à San Francisco, où elle reste cinq ans. C'est d'abord comme décoratrice sur Votez Mc Kay qu'elle fait ses débuts dans le cinéma, mais c'est comme costumière pour La Fièvre du samedi soir où elle est notamment à l'origine du costume blanc porté par John Travolta, qu'elle se fait remarquer.
Son association avec Stuart Wurtzel, son mentor pour ce qui est de la direction artistique, et son futur mari, lui permet ensuite de travailler dans ce domaine, notamment avec Miloš Forman.
Elle continue à travailler aussi pour le théâtre, ainsi, en décembre 2015, elle dessine les décors et les costumes pour la production à Broadway de la pièce de David Mamet The Anarchist .
(1977)
(Costume Design)
(2011)
(Production Design)
(2000)
(Production Design)
(1988)
(Production Design)
(1984)
(Production Design)
(1990)
(Production Design)
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Patrizia von Brandenstein (born 15 April 1943) is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy contemporary fare.
She was born in Arizona to German Russian emigrant parents. Her education abroad closed with two years as an apprentice at the famed Comédie Française. She started with the off-Broadway scene of 1960s New York at the Actors Studio and La MaMa as a seamstress, prop maker and scene painter. 1966 saw the real start of her career in design with an eight-year stay creating costumes and sets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco under William Ball. She also met future husband and fellow production designer Stuart Wurtzel. She has designed movies in a wide range of subjects, styles, and periods: from the low-budget, break-dancing musical Beat Street to the expensive plutonium-plant melodrama Silkwood.
Director Neil Burger, in his DVD commentary for Limitless, singles out von Brandenstein for her excellent work on the film.
Biography
Patrizia von Brandenstein passe une partie de sa jeunesse en Europe, elle y fait ses études dans un pensionnat en Allemagne, puis elle vit à Paris avec ses parents et fait son apprentissage à la Comédie Française.De retour aux États-Unis, elle étudie notamment à la Art Students League of New York. Elle commence sa carrière comme costumière, d'abord Off-Broadway, puis elle obtient un poste à l'American Conservatory Theater à San Francisco, où elle reste cinq ans. C'est d'abord comme décoratrice sur Votez Mc Kay qu'elle fait ses débuts dans le cinéma, mais c'est comme costumière pour La Fièvre du samedi soir où elle est notamment à l'origine du costume blanc porté par John Travolta, qu'elle se fait remarquer.
Son association avec Stuart Wurtzel, son mentor pour ce qui est de la direction artistique, et son futur mari, lui permet ensuite de travailler dans ce domaine, notamment avec Miloš Forman.
Elle continue à travailler aussi pour le théâtre, ainsi, en décembre 2015, elle dessine les décors et les costumes pour la production à Broadway de la pièce de David Mamet The Anarchist .
Best films
(1977)(Costume Design)
(2011)(Production Design)
(2000)(Production Design)
(1988)(Production Design)
(1984)(Production Design)
(1990)(Production Design)
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Filmography of Patrizia von Brandenstein (49 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Words and Pictures | Production Design | |
| 2014 | The Best of Me | Production Design | |
| 2013 | Phil Spector | Production Design | |
| 2011 | Kill the Irishman | Production Design | |
| 2011 | Limitless | Production Design | |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Production Design | |
| 2011 | Violet & Daisy | Production Design | |
| 2009 | The Last Station | Production Design | |
| 2008 | Deception | Production Design | |
| 2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | Production Design | |
| 2006 | All the King's Men | Production Design | |
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Production Design | |
| 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Production Design | |
| 2003 | It Runs in the Family | Production Design | |
| 2002 | The Emperor's Club | Production Design | |
| 2001 | South Pacific | Production Design | |
| 2000 | Shaft | Production Design | |
| 1999 | Man on the Moon | Production Design | |
| 1999 | Witness Protection | Production Design | |
| 1998 | Mercury Rising | Production Design | |
| 1998 | A Simple Plan | Production Design | |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Production Design | |
| 1995 | Just Cause | Production Design | |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | Production Design | |
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Production Design | |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Production Design | |
| 1991 | Billy Bathgate | Production Design | |
| 1990 | State of Grace | Production Design | |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Production Design | |
| 1989 | The Lemon Sisters | Production Design | |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Production Design | |
| 1988 | Betrayed | Production Design | |
| 1986 | The Money Pit | Production Design | |
| 1986 | No Mercy | Production Design | |
| 1985 | A Chorus Line | Production Design | |
| 1984 | Beat Street | Production Design | |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Production Design | |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Production Design | |
| 1982 | A Little Sex | Costume Design | |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Production Design | |
| 1980 | Tell Me a Riddle | Production Design | |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | Art Direction | |
| 1979 | Heartland | Production Design | |
| 1979 | My Old Man | Production Design | |
| 1978 | Girlfriends | Art Direction | |
| 1978 | Summer of My German Soldier | Production Design | |
| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever | Costume Design | |
| 1977 | Between the Lines | Costume Design | |
| 1972 | The Candidate | Set Decoration |