Anna Asp Explained

Anna Asp
Birth Date:1946 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Söderhamn, Sweden
Occupation:Production designer
Art director
Yearsactive:1971-present

Anna Asp (born 16 May 1946) is a Swedish production designer and art director. She studied at Christer Strömholms School of Photography and then at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1]

Over the course of her career Asp has collaborated on films with directors Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bille August and Woody Allen, among others. She won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1983 for her work in Fanny and Alexander.[2] At the 28th Guldbagge Awards she won the Creative Achievement award.[3] In addition, Asp has worked in theater and television production, including the Swedish TV series Wallander. Asp won the Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film gold medal in 2008 for her "outstanding artistic work."[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Asp . Nordic Women in Film . 4 July 2021.
  2. Web site: The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners . 2011-10-09. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  3. Web site: Anna Asp . Swedish Film Institute . 22 March 2014.
  4. Web site: Guldmedalj till scenografen Anna Asp . Anna Ångström . Svenska Dagbladet . 2008-06-04 . 6 July 2021.