Maria Djurkovic

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Maria Djurkovic is a British [1] production designer for film and television.

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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
1986 The Singing Detective 1 episode
1988East of the Moon
1992No Head for HeightsShort film
1993 Spender 2 episodes
1995 Inspector Morse 1 episode
1996In Your DreamsTelevision film
1999 RKO 281 Television film
2002 Doctor Zhivago Miniseries
2010 The Special Relationship Television film
2018 The Little Drummer Girl Miniseries

Film

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

Awards

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