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James Merifield Production Designer James Merifield Production Designer www.jamesmerifield.com Film & Television Directors Production Co Producers LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER Augustine Frizzell Blueprint Pictures Peter Czernin Netflix Graham Broadbent ALL IS TRUE Kenneth Branagh Sony Pictures Classics Kenneth Branagh Ted Gagliano Tamar Thomas MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Josie Rourke Working Title Films Tim Bevan Focus Features Eric Fellner Debra Hayward Winner: BFDG: Best Production Design Independent Feature Film Period, 2019 THE GUERNSEY LITERARY Mike Newell Blueprint Pictures Graham Broadbent AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY Mazur / Kaplan Company Peter Czernin Mitchell Kaplan Paula Mazur BREATHE Andy Serkis The Imaginarium Studios Jonathan Cavendish FINAL PORTRAIT Stanley Tucci Potboiler Productions Gail Egan Olive Films Nik Bower Nominated: BIFA for Best Production Design, 2017 VIRTUOSO Alan Ball HBO Laurie Borg MORTDECAI David Koepp Madchance Productions Andrew Lazar Lionsgate Johnny Depp Christi Dembrowski A LITTLE CHAOS Alan Rickman Potboiler Productions Andrea Calderwood Gail Egan EFFIE GRAY Richard Laxton Sovereign Films Donald Rosenfeld Andreas Roald Emma Thompson AUSTENLAND Jerusha Hess Ficklefish Films Ltd Stephenie Meyer Moxie Gina Mingacci THE DEEP BLUE SEA Terence Davies Camberwell Productions Sean O’Connor Kate Ogborn WILL Ellen Perry Strangelove Films Ellen Perry Mark Cooper BRIGHTON ROCK Rowan Joffe Kudos Film & TV Paul Webster LITTLE DORRIT Dearbhla Walsh BBC Lisa Osborne Adam Smith Diarmuid Lawrence Winner: Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie, 2009 Nomination: BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, 2009 SENSE & SENSIBILITY John Alexander BBC Anne Pivcevic THE WALKER Paul Schrader Kintop Pictures Deepak Nayar Damita Nikapota CHRISTMAS Mark Bussell Carnival Films Mark Bussell AT THE RIVIERA Justin Sbresni Justin Sbresni - 1 - DRACULA Bill Eagles Granada Trevor Hopkins SHOOT THE MESSENGER Ngozi Onwura BBC Films Anne Pivcevic CHILD OF MINE Jamie Payne Apollo Media Alison Jackson GIDEON’S DAUGHTER Stephen Poliakoff Talkback Productions Nicholas Brown FRIENDS & CROCODILES Stephen Poliakoff Talkback Productions Nicholas Brown TOOTH Edouard Nammour Archangel Filmworks Suzie Brooks-Smith HENRY VIII Pete Travis Granada Television Francis Hopkinson MURDER Beeban Kidron Tiger Aspect Rebecca De Souza SIRENS Nick Laughland SMG Productions Margaret Mitchell CIRCUS Rob Walker Columbia Pictures Alan Latham James Gibb THE LIFE & ADVENTURES Stephen Whittaker Company Television Nicholas Brown OF NICOLAS NICKLEBY Nomination: BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, 2001 REVELATION Stuart Urban Romulus Films Jonathan Woolf ANOTHER LIFE Philip Goodhew Alibi Pictures Angela Hart TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN Willard Carroll Hyperion Pictures Tom Wilhite Adam Shapiro BASIL Radha Bharadwaj Kushner-Locke Co. Ronaldo Vasconcellos LADY CHATTERLEY Ken Russell BBC Michael Haggiag TREASURE ISLAND Ken Russell Channel 4 Maureen Murray ALICE IN RUSSIALAND Ken Russell Channel 4 Ronaldo Vasconcellos THE MYSTERY OF Ken Russell BBC Maureen Murray DOCTOR MARTINU Theatre & Opera credits include: THE SUICIDE Matthew Warchus National Youth Theatre THE BOYS FROM Dame Judi Dench Regents Park Theatre SYRACUSE PRINCESS IDA Ken Russell English National Opera SALOME Ken Russell Opera House, Bonn - 2 - .
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