John Box

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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:

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.

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personal data
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