Theodor Pištěk (costume designer)
Theodor Pištěk ( born October 25, 1932 in Prague ) is a former Czech costume designer who won an Oscar for Best Costume Design, a César for best costumes as well as a Bohemian lion.
Life
Pištěk comes from a family of Czechoslovak film industry: His father, Theodor Pištěk was an actor, who starred 1921-1959 in 250 films, his mother the actress maña Zenísková. Their sisters Erna Zenísková and Jana Zenísková were at times also worked as actresses as well as the Uncle Fred Bulín and Bretislav Hrstka.
He began his career as a costume designer in the film studios at Barrandov 1960, the film Holubice and worked until 2003 at the costume and facilities for almost seventy films and television series such as Pan Tau ( 1977-1978 ), The Fairy Tale Bride ( 1979), The Visitor (1983) Dune - Dune (2000) and most recently Children of Dune (2003) with.
For the film Amadeus (1984 ) by Milos Forman with F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge in the lead roles he won the 1985 Academy Award for Best Costume Design. He was also nominated in 1986 for this purpose for the British Academy Film Award for the best costumes.
He had a second success with staged also Forman film Valmont (1989 ) with Colin Firth, Annette Bening and Meg Tilly: For this he won the 1990 César for the best costumes. Furthermore, he was the one in 1990 was nominated for the Oscar for best costumes, on the other 1992, another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes.
2004 Pištěk, who also designed the uniforms of the Castle Guard Prague Castle was finally awarded a Bohemian lion for his artistic achievements in the film industry.