Gil Parrondo
Manuel Gil Parrondo y Rico ( born June 17, 1921 in Luarca, Valdes, Asturias ) is a Spanish art director and production designer, the Academy Award for Best Production Design, but also several times not only received two times the Spanish Film Awards Goya for Best Production Design.
Biography
Parrondo began in the early 1950s, the film Gloria Mairena (1952 ) as a set designer and was involved throughout his career in the film industry as a production designer, production designer and art director in the creation of over 120 films.
At the Academy Awards in 1971, he shared with Urie McCleary, Antonio Mateos and Pierre -Louis Thévenet his first Oscar for Best Production Design in the war film Patton - Rebell in Uniform ( 1970). DC In 1972 his second Oscar in this category and along with John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted and Vernon Dixon for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). Finally, he was nominated a second time with John Box and Robert W. Laing at the Academy Awards in 1973 for Travels with My Aunt ( Travels with My Aunt, 1972).
Mid-1990, he focused on equipping Spanish films of film director José Luis Garci and won first in 1995 the first Goya for Best Production Design ( Mejor Dirección Artística ) Canción de cuna for (1994). After a further nomination for a Goya Award 1999 for El abuelo (1998) he received at the Goya Awards 2001 Gumersindo Andrés another Goya for best production design in film Una historia de entonces Garcis ( You're the one, 2000). In 2003 he was for Historia de un beso (2002), in turn, nominated for a Goya Award and won it again in 2005 for the best production design in film Garcis Tiovivo c. 1950 ( 2004).
Once again he was awarded the Goya for Best Production Design in Garcis Ninette at the Goya Awards in 2006, he was then nominated two more times for the screenshots in films by José Luis Garci for a Goya Award: 2008 Luz de domingo ( 2007) and 2009 Sangre de mayo (2008).
Other movies with scene images were created by him Gwangis Revenge (1968), Battle of Britain (1969 ), The Wind and the Lion ( 1975), The Boys from Brazil ( 1978) and Lorca - murder of freedom (1996).
He worked throughout his career not only with José Luis Garci together, but also with such directors as Jim O'Connolly, John Milius, Guy Hamilton, Franklin J. Schaffner, Marcos Zurinaga and George Cukor.