Andrew McAlpine
Andrew McAlpine (born August 17, 1948 in Auckland , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand film architect and set designer based in Great Britain and the United States.
Live and act
Andrew McAlpine attended Elam Art School in his hometown of Auckland and studied theater design at the University of Nottingham in England . In 1971 he started working as a set designer in London theaters. At that time McAlpine also designed the sets for classical pieces as well as those for modern dance theater, but he also designed the visual appearance of several video productions. In 1974 he received the Calouste Gulbenkian Designer Prize in Holography .
Since 1984 he has been the chief architect for film. With works like “ Sid and Nancy ” and “ Stormy Monday ” , he initially oversaw artistically ambitious works in the new British cinema. He then received offers to work in Hollywood. The Australian director Jane Campion brought him back to his native New Zealand in 1992 to design the film structures for the multi-award-winning self-discovery drama " The Piano " . For this McAlpine received the Australian AFI Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Film Award the following year . "Since then, McAlpine has been one of Hollywood's leading film architects, who has produced very personal, modest in style and psychological stagings (" Family Festival and Other Difficulties "," Clockers ") as well as multimillion-dollar, formally smooth large-scale productions (" The Beach "," Flubber ") equipped."
Filmography
- 1985: Parker
- 1986: Straight to Hell - Go to Hell ( Straight to Hell )
- 1986: Sid and Nancy ( Sid and Nancy )
- 1986: Artists, Killer and Cannons ( High Season )
- 1987: Stormy Monday ( Stormy Monday )
- 1987: For Queen and Country ( For Queen and Country )
- 1988: he? Want! You not? ( The Rachel Papers )
- 1989: Beyond the Shadows ( Shadow of China )
- 1991: Deceived ( Deceived )
- 1991: American Friends ( American Friends )
- 1992: The Piano ( The Piano )
- 1993: Bad Company ( Bad Company )
- 1994: Clockers
- 1995: Family Celebration and Other Difficulties ( Home For the Holidays )
- 1997: Flubber ( Flubber / The Absent-Minded Professor )
- 1997: The Guru ( Holy Man )
- 1999: The Beach ( The Beach )
- 2001: The Reckoning
- 2002: The In-Laws ( The In-Laws )
- 2002: The use ( The Recruit )
- 2005: Æon Flux
- 2006: The Sentinel - Who Can You Trust? ( The Sentinel )
- 2008: Dean Spanley
- 2009: An Education
- 2010: We Want Sex
- 2011: Love Birds
- 2012: Quartet
- 2013: Half of a Yellow Sun
- 2015: Half a year ( Me Before You )
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 158.
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb only mentions "1946"
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 158.
Web links
- Andrew McAlpine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McAlpine, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland , New Zealand |