Roy Walker (production designer)
Roy Walker is an American art director and production designer who won an Oscar and a British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA Film Award ) for Best Production Design as well as two more times was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Walker began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1953 with the film women gone astray (Turn the Key Softly ) and worked until 2001 in the production of over forty films.
His Oscar for Best Production Design, he won at the Academy Awards in 1976 with Ken Adam and Vernon Dixon for based on the novel The Memoirs of Junkers Barry Lyndon (1844 ) by William Makepeace Thackeray resultant film, Barry Lyndon (1975 ) Stanley Kubrick starring Ryan O ' Neal, Marisa Berenson and Patrick Magee.
In 1984 he was awarded with Leslie Tomkins and Tessa Davies an Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in Yentl (1983 ) directed by and starring Barbra Streisand with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving in other major roles.
In 1985, he won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design in the anti- war film The Killing Fields - Crying Country (1984 ) by director Roland Joffé Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor and John Malkovich.
Most recently, he was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2000 along with Bruno Cesari for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film formed after the novel by Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), of and by Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow Jew Law was staged.