Name Christine Edzard Role Film director | Spouse Richard B. Goodwin | |
Parents Susanne Eisendieck, Dietz Edzard Nominations Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Movies Little Dorrit, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, As You Like It, The Fool Similar People Richard B Goodwin, Celia Bannerman, Dietz Edzard, Cyril Cusack, Joan Greenwood | ||
Organizations founded Sands Films | ||
Patricia hayes in the fool by christine edzard
Christine Edzard (born 15 February 1945) is a film director, writer, and costume designer, nominated for BAFTA and Oscar awards for her screenwriting. She has been based in London for most of her career.
Contents
- Patricia hayes in the fool by christine edzard
- Early life
- Career
- Partial director and writer filmography
- Making and Supplying of Period Costumes
- References
Early life
Edzard was born and raised in Paris by her German-born father and Polish mother, both painters, and after a degree in economics she trained as a set and costume designer with Lila De Nobili and Rotislav Duboujinsky. She assisted Di Nobili on Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Aida and Romeo and Juliet at La Scala in 1963 and 1968.
Career
Edzard co-wrote and designed the film Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.
With her husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, she founded the Sands Films studio and production company in Rotherhithe, London in 1975. The studios include the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, a free resource for the general public, and the building was awarded a Blue Plaque in 2009, unveiled in January that year by Derek Jacobi. Over the years Sands Films have made and supplied period costumes for international film and TV productions.
Edzard is best known for her film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, Little Dorrit (1988), a British film for which she was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay and a Los Angeles Film Critics award for best film. Acting awards for Little Dorrit went to Derek Jacobi (Evening Standard Award for Best Actor) Miriam Margolyes, (LA Critics Circle Award, Best Supporting Actress) and Sir Alec Guinness (Berlin Film Festival Award, Oscar nomination, BAFTA nomination).