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Name
  
Gretchen Rau

Role
  
Set decorator

Movies
  
Year of the Dragon


Died
  
March 29, 2006, Northport, New York, United States

Children
  
Taylor Pattison, Anne Pattison, George Pattison, Stephine Pattison, Jean-Paul Menard

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Production Design

Nominations
  
Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design

Similar People
  
John Myhre, Jeannine Oppewall, Lilly Kilvert, Stefano Maria Ortolani, Dion Beebe

Gretchen Rau (July 6, 1939 – March 29, 2006) was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry. Her more notable projects include the films Crocodile Dundee, A River Runs Through It, The Crucible, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Additionally, she won an Academy Award for set decoration for Memoirs of a Geisha, and was nominated for The Last Samurai and The Good Shepherd.

Born in New Orleans, she lived most of her life in Northport, Long Island, New York until her death in 2006 from brain cancer, aged 66.

References

Gretchen Rau Wikipedia