Gretchen Rau

Gretchen Rau ( born July 6, 1939 in New Orleans, † 29 March, 2006 Northport ) was an American film set designer and decorator.

The first film, was involved in the Gretchen Rau, was the movie Atlantic City, USA by Louis Malle from 1980., Where she was still an assistant in the props department. Two years later, in Lewis Teague's Deadly billing she was responsible for the stage design of the film. In the following years she was involved in increasingly important productions and worked several times with directors Alan Parker, Edward Zwick, Lasse Hallstrom, Robert Redford, Robert Benton, Fred Schepisi and Richard Pearce and Norman Mailer, Frank Oz, Barbet Schroeder, Brad Silberling, Rob Reiner, Neil Jordan, Nicholas Hytner, Alan J. Pakula, Peter Sellars, Robert Wise, Michael Winner, Michael Cimino, Sergio Leone, M. Night Shyamalan, Wes Anderson, Rob Marshall and Robert De Niro together. She was involved in almost 40 film productions. Twice, in 2004 for The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Geisha 2006 she was nominated for the Oscar, she also won in 2006. Not even four weeks after winning the Oscar Rau died of a brain tumor. In the credits of the film The Good Shepherd is remembered in memory of her with naming them.