Maria Djurkovic Explained

Maria Djurkovic is a British[1] 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.[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 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.[3]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleNotes
1986The Singing Detective1 episode
1988East of the Moon
1992No Head for HeightsShort film
1993Spender2 episodes
1995Inspector Morse1 episode
1996In Your DreamsTelevision film
1999 RKO 281Television film
2002Doctor ZhivagoMiniseries
2010 The Special RelationshipTelevision film
2018The Little Drummer GirlMiniseries

Film

YearTitleNotes
1995 The Turnaround
The Young Poisoner's Handbook
1996Sweet Angel Mine
1997Wilde
1998Sliding Doors
1999Fanny and Elvis
2000 Billy Elliot
2001The Grey Zone
2002The Hours
2003Sylvia
2004Vanity Fair
2005Man to Man
2006Scoop
2007Cassandra's Dream
2008Mamma Mia!
2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2012 I Missed My Mother's FuneralShort film
2013The Invisible Woman
2014 The Imitation Game
2015A Bigger Splash
2016Gold
2017The Snowman
2018Red Sparrow
2021The Dig
2022My Policeman
2023Ferrari

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marija Đurković: Nagrada uvek prija. B92. 2021-06-27.
  2. Web site: Marija Đurković: Nagrada uvek prija. B92. 2021-07-07.
  3. Web site: Vgl. blogs.nytimes.com. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. 2021-06-27.
  4. Web site: First Films First | Maria Djurkovic . firstfilmsfirst.com. 2021-06-27.