Martin Childs

Martin David William Childs MBE ( born July 1, 1954 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England ) is a British art director and production designer who won the Academy Award for Best Production Design, among others, and one more time for this and some other film awards was nominated.

Life

Childs began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1985 with the television series Question Time and worked until today at the scenic features of more than thirty films.

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

At the Academy Awards 1999 Martin Childs won along with Jill Quertier the Oscar for Best Production Design for Shakespeare in Love ( 1998) by John Madden starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow and Geoffrey Rush in the lead roles. In addition, he was a Golden Satellite Award nomination for this film along with Mark Raggett, Steven Lawrence and Frances Bennett for Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild and each alone for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design and Best Production Design.

2001 Childs was nominated Quertier for another Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the staged by director Philip Kaufman film Quills - Power of Obsession (2000) with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix. In addition, he received for a further nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design.

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

He is currently working as a production designer for the television series Parade 's End, which is to be aired in 2012.

Filmography

Awards

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