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Maria Djurkovic
British film production designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maria Djurkovic (born April 1960) is a British[1] production designer for film and television.
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Early life and education
Djurkovic was born in West London and grew up in Harrow, North London, the daughter of a Yugoslav-born art director.[2][3] She has Czech, Russian and Montenegrin roots and spent some of her childhood in former Yugoslavia.[4]
Djurkovic attended St Helen's School, completing her A Levels in 1978.[5] She graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Oxford University's Ruskin School of Art in 1982.[6] She then pursued the Motley Theatre Design Course.[2]
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Career
After completing her postgraduate studies, Djurkovic began her career in the mid 1980s working in television for the BBC. Since then she has been involved in around 30 film and television productions.
At the 2015 Academy Awards, she and Tatiana Macdonald were nominated in the Best Production Design category for their work on The Imitation Game. In particular, she was responsible for the reconstruction of Alan Turing's bombe, for which she was given access to the archives of Bletchley Park, where Turing and his colleagues worked on deciphering the German military's Enigma code during the Second World War.[7]
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Filmography
Television
Film
Awards
- Nominated, Academy Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game
- Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game[8]
References
External links
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