Specialist Film Roles: Production Designer

Sebastian Black                                   Film Studies A Level                      Thursday 15th October 2015

Production Design

Production designers are the people who create a new world for films. They are the reason why we can go back or forward in time. 

The production designer I'm going to talk about is Krisi Zea. Krisi was born on 24th October 1948 in New York, USA. She is a production designer, costume designer & a film producer.

Krisi Zea is a costume designer but she is mainly a production designer. Some of the production designs are:

• Married to the Mob (Dir. Jonathan Demme) 1988
• Goodfellas - Three Decades in the Mafia (Dir. Martin Scorsese) 1990
• The Silence of the Lambs (Dir. Jonathan Demme) 1991
• Lorenzo's Oil (Dir. George Miller) 1992
• Philadelphia (Dir. Jonathan Demme) 1993
• Sleepers (Dir. Barry Levinson) 1996
• Lance Change (Dir. Roger Michell) 2002
• The Manchurian Candidate (Dir. Jonathan Demme) 2004
• The Departed - Under Enemies (Dir. Martin Scorsese) 2006
• Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) 2008
• Shopaholic - Confessions of a Shopaholic (Dir. PJ Hogan) 2009
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Dir. Oliver Stone) 2010

Krisi Zea went to Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. She studied English Literature in Columbia University.

Awards:

• 1998: PGA Awards nomination for Good as It Gets
• 1998: Oscar Nomination for Good as It Gets
• 1998: Golden Satellite Award for Good as It Gets
• 1999: Golden Satellite Award nomination for Man
• 2008: Satellite Award nomination for Revolutionary Road
• 2009: Oscar nomination  Revolutionary Road
• 2009: BAFTA nomination for Revolutionary Road