Martin Childs

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Martin David William Childs MBE (born July 1, 1954 in Bedford , Bedfordshire , England ) is a British art director and production designer who won the Oscar for best production design and was once again nominated for this and several other film awards.

Life

Childs began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1985 for the television series Question Time and has worked on the staging of over thirty films to this day.

In 1998 he received his first of three nominations for the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for the staging in Her Majesty Mrs. Brown (1997) by John Madden with Judi Dench , Billy Connolly and Geoffrey Palmer .

At the Oscar ceremony in 1999 Martin Childs won with Jill Quertier the Oscar for Best Production Design for Shakespeare in Love (1998) by John Madden with Joseph Fiennes , Gwyneth Paltrow and Geoffrey Rush in the leading roles . He was also nominated for the Art Directors Guild's Excellence in Production Design Award as well as the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design and the Golden Satellite Award for Best Production Design for this film, along with Mark Raggett, Steven Lawrence and Frances Bennett .

In 2001 Childs and Quertier were nominated for another Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman , starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix . In addition, he received another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for best production design.

For his services as a production designer in the film industry, he was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 .

He worked as a production designer for the television series Parade's End , which was due to air in 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Childs, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Childs, Martin David William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford , Bedfordshire , England