Alexandre Trauner
Art
Born 1906-08-03
Died 1993-12-05
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
66 credits
Academy Awards 1
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1
César Award for Best Production Design 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated
- 1976 Best Production Design Nominated The Man Who Would Be King
- 1961 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won The Apartment
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 won
- 1991 European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Won
César Award for Best Production Design 1 won
- 1980 Best Production Design Won Don Giovanni
Award data from Wikidata (CC0). Coverage may be incomplete.
Read biography
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer.
After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as À nous la liberté (1932) and La Kermesse héroïque (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer.
Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes, 1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945). Trauner worked in hiding on Children of Paradise, which was filmed at the Victorine Studios in Nice during 1943 and 1944 during the Nazi's Occupation of France.
He worked with Billy Wilder on eight films between 1958 and 1978, including the sets for The Apartment (1960), on which he made use of false perspective, a characteristic of his work. For his work on this film, he won an Academy Award. He also worked on John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni (1979), and Luc Besson's Subway (1985).
In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.
Source: Article "Alexandre Trauner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Not enough member ratings yet.
Sign in to rate.
Filmography
— top 60 of 66
Other credits
57 credits
The Apartment
Witness for the Prosecution
The Night of the Generals
How to Steal a Million
Irma la Douce
Paris Blues
The Nun's Story
'Round Midnight
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Subway
Children of Paradise
Othello
The Man Who Would Be King
Love in the Afternoon
L'Âge d'or
Mr. Klein
One, Two, Three
Rififi
Land of the Pharaohs
Goodbye Again
Coup de Torchon
Fedora
Port of Shadows
Hatred
Kiss Me, Stupid
Stormy Waters
Behold a Pale Horse
Daybreak
The Bengali Night
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Hôtel du Nord
Uptight
Love Comedy
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
The Seven Deadly Sins
Five Miles to Midnight
The Rainbow Thief
So Long, Stooge
Plucking the Daisy
Reunion
The Great Deception
Bizarre, Bizarre
Mystery Tour
A Flea in Her Ear
Once More, with Feeling!
Don Giovanni
Gates of the Night
Promise at Dawn
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Summer Light
The Green Glove
Impossible Object
Chicago Digest
The Happy Road
Zouzou
The Trout
Roads to the South
Acting
5 credits
Producing
2 credits
Track what you watch
DuckTrack members see which of these they have already watched,
right here on this page.
Create a free account
Comments
0 commentsNo comments yet. Sign in to be the first.