Maria Djurkovic
{{Short description|British film production designer}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2021}}
Maria Djurkovic is a British{{cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/kultura/intervjui.php?nav_category=1081&nav_id=665950|title=Marija Đurković: Nagrada uvek prija|website=B92|access-date=2021-06-27}} production designer for film and television.
Career
Djurkovic has Czech, Russian and Montenegrin roots and spent a lot of time in the former Yugoslavia in her childhood.{{cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/kultura/intervjui.php?nav_category=1081&nav_id=665950|title=Marija Đurković: Nagrada uvek prija|website=B92|access-date=2021-07-07}} She studied at the University of Oxford and began her film career in the mid 1980s. 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.{{cite web|url=https://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/below-the-line-designing-the-imitation-game/?_r=0|website=carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com|title=Vgl. blogs.nytimes.com|access-date=2021-06-27}}
Filmography
=Television=
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Year
! Title ! Notes |
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1986
|1 episode |
1988
|East of the Moon | |
1992
|No Head for Heights |Short film |
1993
|2 episodes |
1995
|1 episode |
1996
|In Your Dreams | Television film |
1999
| Television film |
2002
|Miniseries |
2010
| Television film |
2018
|Miniseries |
=Film=
class="wikitable" |
Year
! Title ! Notes |
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rowspan="2"|1995
|The Turnaround |
The Young Poisoner's Handbook |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999
|Fanny and Elvis |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2011 |
2012
|I Missed My Mother's Funeral |Short film |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016
|Gold |
2017 |
2018 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023
| Ferrari |
Awards
- Nominated, Academy Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game
- Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game{{cite web|url=http://firstfilmsfirst.com/maria-djurkovic/|title=First Films First | Maria Djurkovic |website=firstfilmsfirst.com|access-date=2021-06-27}}
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Category:British people of Montenegrin descent
Category:British people of Czech descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:British art directors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:British women production designers