Gil Parrondo

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Manuel Gil Parrondo y Rico-Villadoros (born June 17, 1921 in Ḷḷuarca , Valdés , Asturias ; † December 24, 2016 in Madrid ) was a Spanish film architect who not only won the Oscar twice for best production design , but also several times the Spanish one Goya film award for best production design.

biography

Parrondo, who comes from Luarca, attended the College of Fine Arts in San Fernando / Madrid with the intention of becoming an architect. In this profession he also worked temporarily. In 1945 Parrondo joined the film industry as an architectural assistant and initially worked under the patronage of the German-born production designer Sigfrido Burmann . In 1951 Parrondo rose to head designer for the film Gloria Mairena and was involved in the creation of the film structures for over 180 productions over the course of his career.

At the 1971 Academy Awards , he and Urie McCleary , Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thévenet received his first Oscar for best production design in the war film Patton - Rebel in Uniform (1970). DC in 1972 was followed by his second Oscar in this category and along with John Box , Ernest Archer , Jack Maxsted and Vernon Dixon for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). After all, he was nominated one more time with John Box and Robert W. Laing at the 1973 Academy Awards for Travels with My Aunt (1972).

In the mid-1990s he concentrated on the equipment of Spanish films by the film director José Luis Garci and first won the first Goya in 1995 for the best production design (Mejor Dirección Artística) for Canción de cuna (1994). After a further nomination for a Goya in 1999 for El abuelo (1998), he received another Goya for the best production design in Garci's film Una historia de entonces ( You're the one , 2000) at the Goya Awards 2001 with Gumersindo Andrés . In 2003 he was again nominated for a Goya for Historia de un beso (2002) and won it again in 2005 for the best production design in Garci's film Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004).

After he again received the Goya for the best production design in Garcis Ninette at the Goya Awards in 2006 , he was nominated for a Goya two more times for the production design in films by José Luis Garci: in 2008 for Luz de domingo (2007) and 2009 for Sangre de mayo (2008).

Other films with sets created by him were Gwangi's Vengeance (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), The Wind and the Lion (1975), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and Lorca - Murder of Freedom (1996).

In the course of his career he not only worked with José Luis Garci, but also with directors such as Jim O'Connolly , John Milius , Guy Hamilton , Franklin J. Schaffner , Marcos Zurinaga and George Cukor .

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  1. ↑ Muere Gil Parrondo, director artístico ganador de dos Óscar . El Confidencial, December 24, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Parrondo, Gil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parrondo y Rico, Manuel Gil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ḷḷuarca , Valdés , Asturias
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2016
Place of death Madrid