Terence Marsh

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Terence "Terry" Marsh (born November 14, 1931 in London , England ; † January 9, 2018 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was a British art director and production designer who received two Oscar for best production design .

Life

Terence Marsh began in 1955 as a draftsman for Der Liebelosen in Paris in the film industry and was involved in setting up around 50 films as art director and production designer.

At the 1966 Academy Awards , he and John Box and Dario Simoni received his first Oscar for the best production design in the color film Doctor Zhivago (1965). He received his second Oscar in this category in 1969 along with John Box, Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston for Oliver (1968). For Scrooge (1970), he was not only nominated for the BAFTA Award of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in 1971 , but together with Robert Cartwright and Pamela Cornell for the Oscar for best production design at the 1971 Academy Awards . With Robert Cartwright and Peter Howitt , he was last nominated for an Oscar in the category of best production design in 1972 , for Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1971).

Later he was nominated two more times for the BAFTA Film Award for the best production design: on the one hand in 1978 for Die Brücke von Arnheim (1977), on the other hand in 1991 for Hunt for Red October (1990).

Marsh, who also helped set up the films Magic (1978), Basic Instinct (1992), The Condemned (1994) and The Green Mile (1999), worked with directors such as Paul Verhoeven , Frank Darabont , Richard Attenborough , Ronald Neame , David Lean , Carol Reed and Charles Jarrott together.

In 2010 he was honored for his life's work by the Art Directors Guild with the ADG Lifetime Achievement Award .

Filmography (selection)

Individual proof

  1. ^ Terence Marsh, Two-Time Oscar-Winning Art Director, Dies at 86

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