Mark Friedberg

Mark Friedberg (* in New York ) is an American production designer who prefers to work with Wes Anderson , Ang Lee and Todd Haynes .

Life

After his time at college Friedberg worked as a painter. This was followed by a work for Another Woman in 1988 and a first paid contract for the film New York Stories by Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola , for which he made African masks. In addition to working as a set designer for films by friends, Friedberg worked in the following years in particular with the directors Wes Anderson , Ang Lee and Todd Haynes , for example in 1997 for The Ice Storm by Lee and in 1999 for Ride with the Devil, also by Lee. This was followed by work for Pollock by Ed Harris in 2000, Heaven So Far from Todd Haynes in 2002 and The Deep Sea Divers by Wes Anderson in 2004, with whom he also worked three years later on the film Darjeeling Limited . He then designed the production design for the musical Across the Universe by Julie Taymor .

For his work on the television series Mildred Pierce , Friedberg received an Emmy award in 2011 in the Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie category. This was followed by work for the 2014 films The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro by Marc Webb and Noah by Darren Aronofsky . Most recently Friedberg worked for the films Paterson by Jim Jarmusch , The crazy heroic tour of Billy Lynn by Ang Lee, Wonderstruck by Todd Haynes and Mein Bester & Ich by Neil Burger .

Filmography (selection)

• 1997: The Ice Storm (The Ice Storm)
• 1999: Ride with the Devil
• 2000: Pollock
• 2002: Far from Heaven (Far from Heaven)
• 2004: The Deep Sea Divers (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
• 2007: Darjeeling Limited
• 2007: Across the Universe
• 2008: Synecdoche, New York
• 2011: Mildred Pierce (TV series)
• 2014: The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro
• 2014: Noah
• 2014: Selma
• 2016: Paterson
• 2016: Billy Lynn's Crazy Heroes Tour (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk)
• 2017: Wonderstruck
• 2017: My Best & Me (The Upside)
• 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk

Awards (selection)

Emmy

• 2011 : Award in the category Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie ( Mildred Pierce )

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

• 2008: Award for Best Production Design ( Synecdoche, New York )

Satellite Awards

• 2007 : Nomination for Best Production Design ( Across the Universe )

Web links

• Mark Friedberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/mark-friedberg-57537523/
2. ↑ http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2012/03/production-designer-mark-friedberg-shares-the-secrets-of-making-the-cinematic-worlds-of -wes-anderson-ang-lee-and-todd-haynes-067223
3. ↑ http://nofilmschool.com/2013/08/mark-friedberg-on-role-architecture-plays
4. ↑ Heidi Lüdi, Toni Lüdi and Kathinka Schreiber: Magic Worlds: Production Design in Film - The Scenes in the Film Edition Axel menges, Stuttgart, 2000.
5. ^ Doris Berger: Projected Art History. Myths and images in the biographies of Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat , transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2009.
6. ^ Glyn Davis: Far from Heaven , Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
7. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/personal-experience-set-d_b_67799.html
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ http://www.emmys.com/bios/mark-friedberg
10. ↑ http://diymag.com/archive/interview-mark-friedberg
11. ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/2014/12/the-production-design-secrets-behind-five-fantastic-2014-movie-adventures-189883/
12. ↑ http://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/2018-oscar-predictions-best-production-design/