Christine Edzard

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Christine Edzard (born 15 February 1945) is a film director, writer, and costume designer, nominated for BAFTA and Oscar awards for her screenwriting. She has been based in London for most of her career.

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Early life

Edzard was born and raised in Paris by her German-born father and Polish mother, both painters, and after a degree in economics she trained as a set and costume designer with Lila De Nobili and Rotislav Duboujinsky. She assisted Di Nobili on Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Aida and Romeo and Juliet at La Scala in 1963 and 1968.

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Career

Edzard co-wrote and designed the film Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.

With her husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, she founded the Sands Films studio and production company in Rotherhithe, London in 1975. The studios include the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, a free resource for the general public, and the building was awarded a Blue Plaque in 2009, unveiled in January that year by Derek Jacobi. Over the years Sands Films have made and supplied period costumes for international film and TV productions.

Edzard is best known for her film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, Little Dorrit (1988), a British film for which she was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay and a Los Angeles Film Critics award for best film. Acting awards for Little Dorrit went to Derek Jacobi (Evening Standard Award for Best Actor) Miriam Margolyes, (LA Critics Circle Award, Best Supporting Actress) and Sir Alec Guinness (Berlin Film Festival Award, Oscar nomination, BAFTA nomination).

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Partial director and writer filmography

• The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream (2001) (direction, design)
• The IMAX Nutcracker Prince (1997) (screenplay, design, direction)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors - filmed opera by Gian Carlo Menotti (direction, set and costume design)
• As You Like It (1992) (direction, design)
• The Fool (1990) (screenplay adapted from Henry Mayhew, design, direction)
• Biddy (1983) (Screenplay, direction)
• Little Dorrit (1987) (screenplay, direction, design)
• The Nightingale (1981) (screenplay, direction)
• Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979) (three short films, Little Ida (1975), The Kitchen (1975) and The Little Match Girl (1975))
• Tales of Beatrix Potter (1972)

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Making and supplying of period costumes

• Wolf Hall
• The Young Victoria
• Mr Turner
• Amistad
• Oscar and Lucinda
• Les Miserables
• A Little Chaos
• The Woman in White
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Great Expectations (BAFTA award for Best Costumes)
• Gormenghast
• Topsy-Turvy (Academy Award for Best Costumes)

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References

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External links

• Christine Edzard on IMDb
• Sands Films official website
• Guardian article
• Financial Times article
• Greenwich Society history of Sands Films
• The Costume Society
• The Guardian South Side Story, on The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream, Dec 8, 2000
• Warwick University Shakespeare Project
• Rotislav Doboujinsky in the V&A Collections
• Lila De Nobili in the V&A Collections

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