Anthony Masters
Tony Masters ( born November 9, 1919 as Anthony H. Masters in Elham at Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom; † 12 May 1990 in the South of France ) was a British art director.
Life and work
Masters attended University College School in Hampstead London and received a four-year education at the Hornsey School of Art in between, when the war broke out in 1939, Masters was drafted. He fought among others on the front lines in North Africa and Italy. Immediately after the war, worked Masters in Rome for a year as an art editor and illustrator. He then returned to London, where he was hired by the Riverside Studios and the visual scene on Craft learned the film business from scratch. Since the late 40s he is detectable as a film artist.
His debut as chief architect gave Tony Masters 1955 at the surrealist, medium length film The jacket made to measure. Masters ' breakthrough came in 1965, when he with the comprehensive design projects to Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking science-fiction movie 2001: Odyssey was entrusted in space. For this performance he received an Oscar nomination in 1969. Masters ' later works, however, largely disappointed. It was not until his return to the science fiction genre in 1983, when he Dune could create futuristic scenes for David Lynch's apocalyptical vision again, he again achieved a significant scene visual performance.