John Box
John Box (born January 27, 1920 in London , † March 7, 2005 in Leatherhead , County Surrey ) was a British film architect .
Live and act
Box spent his childhood in Ceylon and became interested in architecture from an early age. He then began studying architecture in London. In 1947 he began a six-year internship including assistantship at Delham Studios before becoming chief architect in 1953.
Box was able to demonstrate his great design talent in the most important British large-scale productions of the 1960s to 1980s, as evidenced above all by his outstanding decorations for David Lean's monumental epics Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago and Journey to India . His extensive sense of style and the ability to bring a certain epoch and its living conditions to life through film architecture was particularly praised. B. Victorian England in Oliver , the Britannia of Henry VIII. In A man in every season and the outgoing Tsarism in Russia 1917/18 in Nicholas and Alexandra .
Of his most recent works, Die eheimliche Macht , a mixture of horror and war flicks set in a barren Romanian fortress, for which Box created an apocalyptic, apocalyptic, end-time and light-flooded world with crosses, tombs and grottos, stood out.
It has been nominated several times for Academy Awards ( Oscar ) in the Art Direction category and has received it four times. He has won the BAFTA Award in the Best Production Design category three times .
Awards (selection)
Box has been nominated for or awarded an Oscar several times:
- 1962: Oscar for Lawrence of Arabia
- 1965: Oscar for Doctor Zhivago
- 1968: Oscar for Oliver
- 1971: Oscar for Nikolaus and Alexandra
- 1972: Oscar nomination for traveling with my aunt
- 1984: Oscar nomination for trip to India
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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 499.
Web links
- John Box in Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Box, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British production designer (art director and production designer) |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2005 |
Place of death | Leatherhead |