Maria Djurkovic

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Maria Djurkovic is a British^[1] film architect.

Career[]

Djurkovic has Czech, Russian and Montenegrin roots and spent a lot of time in the former Yugoslavia in her childhood.^[2] 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 were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Production Design category for their work on The Imitation Game. In particular, she was responsible for the reconstruction of Turing's bombe, for which she was given access to the archives of Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and his colleagues worked on deciphering the German military's Enigma code during the Second World War.^[3]

Filmography[]

• 1986: The Singing Detective (TV miniseries)
• 1988: Behind the Sun - Next to the Moon (TV series)
• 1992: No Head for Heights (TV short film)
• 1993: Donor (TV series)
• 1995: Inspector Morse, Oxford Homicide Squad (Inspector Morse, TV series)
• 1995: The Turnaround
• 1995: The Young Poisoner's Handbook (The Young Poisoner's Handbook)
• 1996: Sweet Angel Death
• 1996: In Your Dreams
• 1997: Oscar Wilde
• 1998: She Loves Him - She Doesn't Love Him (Sliding Doors)
• 1999: Fanny and Elvis
• 1999: Citizen Kane - The Hollywood Legend (RKO 281, TV movie)
• 2000: Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
• 2001: The Gray Zone (The Gray Zone)
• 2002: Doctor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago, television miniseries)
• 2002: The Hours - from eternity to eternity (The Hours)
• 2003: Sylvia
• 2004: Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair (Vanity Fair)
• 2005: Man to Man
• 2006: Scoop - Get the Scoop (Scoop)
• 2007: Cassandra's Dream (Cassandra's Dream)
• 2008: Mamma Mia!
• 2010: The Special Relationship (TV movie)
• 2011: Queen, King, As, Spy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• 2012: I Missed My Mother's Funeral (short film)
• 2013: The Invisible Woman
• 2014: The Imitation Game
• 2015: A Bigger Splash
• 2016: Gold - Greed has a new color (gold)
• 2017: Snowman (The Snowman)
• 2018: Red Sparrow
• 2021: The excavation (The Dig)

Awards[]

• Nominated, Academy Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game
• Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for The Imitation Game^[4]

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