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Sonja Klaus Production Designer Sonja Klaus Production Designer Winner of the 2018 British Film Designers Guild Award Agents Madeleine Pudney Assistant 020 3214 0999 Eliza McWilliams [email protected] 020 3214 0999 Credits In Development Production Company Notes THE POWER Sister Pictures / Amazon Dir: Reed Morano Production Designer Film Production Company Notes TERMINATOR: Skydance/Paramount Dir: Tim Miller DARK FATE Production Designer THE AFTERMATH Scott Free Productions/ Fox Dir: James Kent Searchlight Pictures Production Designer IN DARKNESS XYZ Productions Dir: Anthony Byrne Production Designer COVER GIRL Dignity Film Finance Dir: Sue Kramer ON HOLD Production Designer MINDHORN Scott Free Films Dir: Sean Foley Teaser Production Designer United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes THE COUNSELOR 20th Century Fox Dir: Ridley Scott As Set Decorator PROMETHEUS 20th Century Fox Dir: Ridley Scott As Set Decorator XMEN: FIRST CLASS 20th Century Fox Dir: Matthew Vaughn As Set Decorator NOTTINGHAM Universal Pictures Dir: Ridley Scott As Set Decorator BODY OF LIES Warner Brothers Dir: Ridley Scott As Set Decorator BABYLON AD 20th Century Fox/Canal Plus Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz Production Designer AMERICAN Universal Pictures Dir: Ridley Scott GANGSTER As Set Decorator, Thailand A GOOD YEAR 20th Century Fox Dir: Ridley Scott Production Designer KINGDOM OF 20th Century Fox Dir: Ridley Scott HEAVEN As Set Decorator FIVE CHILDREN Psammead Productions Dir: John Stephenson AND IT As Set Decorator TOMB RAIDER II Paramount British Pictures Dir: Jan de Bont As Set Decorator TOMB RAIDER Paramount British Pictures Dir: Simon West As Set Decorator GLADIATOR Dreamworks SKG Dir: Ridley Scott As Set Decorator, Malta 2001 Academy Award for Best Film & Nomination for Art Direction, 2001 Golden Globe Award for Best Film. BAFTA for Best Art Direction DOG SOLDIERS Noel Gay Productions Dir: Neil Marshall As Set Decorator THE CALLING Constatin Films Dir: Richard Caesar As Set Decorator MY GIANT Castle Rock Pictures Dir: Michael Lehman As Set Decorator, UK THE COMMISSIONER Sammuelson/New Era Vision Dir: George Sluizer Ltd As Set Decorator PRINCE VALIANT The Feast Dir: Tony Hickox As Set Decorator THE FEAST OF JULY Merchant Ivory/Peregrine Dir: Chris Menaul Productions As Set Decorator United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes GOODBYE HONG Strawberry Films Ltd Dir: Joseph Chow KONG As Production Designer SOFT TOP HARD Gruber Productions Dir: Stefan Swartz SHOULDER As Production Designer Critics Award London Film Festival 1993 MAD DOGS AND Moor Street Films Dir: Henry Cole ENGLISHMEN As Set Decorator K2 Entertainment/Majestic Dir: Frank Roddam Storyboard/Researcher Television Production Company Notes A CHRISTMAS CAROL Scott Free Productions / Hardy, Son Dir: Nick Murphy & Baker / FX Productions Prod: Julian Stevens TABOO Scott Free Productions Dir: Kristoffer Nyholm Prod: Tim Bricknell As Production Designer MR SELFRIDGE II ITV Dir: Anthony Byrne / Lawrence Till / Rob Evans AsProduction Designer BLAIR Mentorn Films Dir: Simon Cellan Jones As Production Designer ALICE IN WONDERLAND Hallmark Entertainment Dir: Nick Willing Buyer/Asst. Set Decorator Nominated 1999 Emmy, Best Design MERLIN Hallmark Entertainment Dir: Steve Barron As Buyer/Asst. Set Decorator Winner 1998 Emmy, Best Design THE ODYSSEY Hallmark Entertainment Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky Production Designer: Roger Hall Buyer/Asst. Set Decorator- RESPECT Yorkshire Television Dir: Terry Marcel Production Designer: Andrew Sanderson As Art Director PIRATES BBC Childsplay Television Ltd Dir: Peter Tabern As Production Designer United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes KEN RUSSELL'S TREASURE Dreamgrange Ltd/Channel 4 Dir: Ken Russell ISLAND As Set Decorator RED, WHITE AND TRUE BBC Dir: Katie Pearson As Production Designer A HORSE AND HIS BOYS BBC Dir: Katie Pearson As Production Designer FALL FROM GRACE Portman Productions Dir: Waris Hussein As Set Decorator THE PHILLIP KNIGHT Yorkshire TV / Waller Films Dir: Peter Kosminsky STORY As Set Decorator EYE OF THE STORM Childsplay Productions Dir: Peter Tabern As Art Director ALL CHANGE Childsplay Productions Dir: Graham Dixon / Garth Tucker As Art Director STREETWISE TVS Dir: Ian Emes / Peter Tabern As Art Director BEST OF FRIENDS London Film Productions Dir: Alvin Rakoff As Art Director WITHOUT WALLS Channel 4 / Fulmar TV Ltd Dir: Bob Bentley As Production Designer Documentaries Production Company Notes NOSTRADAMUS Discovery Dir: Bryn Higgins Channel/Mentorn Films As Production Designer THE ENEMY WITHIN Mission Films/Discovery Dir: Dominic Channel Streatfield-James As Production Designer J'ACUSE TECHNONERDS, J'ACUSE COMEDY Channel 4/Fulmar Films Dir: Paul Wilmshurst AND J'ACUSE NATURAL HISTORY &TV Ltd / Ella Behare PROGRAMMES As Production Designer JAMES RANDI INVESTIGATES Granada Television/Open Dir: John Birkin Media As Art Director United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected].
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