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name: "Patrizia von Brandenstein"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/patrizia-von-brandenstein"
fi1m_id: "patrizia-von-brandenstein"
imdb_id: "nm0902038"
tmdb_id: 6494
wikidata_id: "Q2058196"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "15 April 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-04T19:48:42.731560+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Patrizia von Brandenstein

## Identity

Patrizia von Brandenstein

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/patrizia-von-brandenstein
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** patrizia-von-brandenstein
- **IMDb ID:** nm0902038
- **TMDB ID:** 6494
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2058196
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrizia_von_Brandenstein, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2058196, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902038/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6494

Production designer. Born 15 April 1943 in Arizona, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 15 April 1943, Arizona, USA
- **Active:** 1977–1998
- **Frequently works with:** [Sam Raimi](https://film.one/person/sam-raimi.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 82 (2), 1980s 75 (3), 1990s 86 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 77 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 3, Romance 2, Crime 1, History 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $522m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrizia_von_Brandenstein, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2058196, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902038/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6494

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Saturday Night Fever*](https://film.one/film/saturday-night-fever.md) (78)

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## Biography

Patrizia von Brandenstein is an American production designer. She was born on 15 April 1943 in Arizona. She began her career in the 1960s working in theatre in New York as a seamstress, prop maker and scene painter, later apprenticing at the Comédie Française. She spent eight years creating costumes and sets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before moving into film.

Von Brandenstein transitioned to production design in the 1980s after early work as a costume designer, including on *Saturday Night Fever* (1977). She is known for her work on *Amadeus* (1984), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, *The Untouchables* (1987), *The Money Pit* (1986), *The Quick and the Dead* (1995), *A Simple Plan* (1998), *Man on the Moon* (1999) and *Limitless* (2011). She has collaborated frequently with director Miloš Forman and received the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *A Simple Plan* (1998), Fi1m 86, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-simple-plan.md)
- *Working Girl* (1988), Fi1m 80, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/working-girl.md)
- *The Money Pit* (1986), Fi1m 54, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-money-pit.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Breaking Away* (1979), Fi1m 86, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/breaking-away.md)
- *Saturday Night Fever* (1977), Fi1m 78, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/saturday-night-fever.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Last Tycoon* (2017), series, Production Design
- *The Best of Me* (2014), Production Design
- *Houdini* (2014), series, Production Design
- *Words and Pictures* (2014), Production Design
- *Phil Spector* (2013), Production Design
- *Violet & Daisy* (2013), Production Design
- *Albert Nobbs* (2011), Production Design
- *Limitless* (2011), Production Design
- *Kill the Irishman* (2011), Production Design
- *The Last Station* (2009), Production Design
- *Nights in Rodanthe* (2008), Production Design
- *Deception* (2008), Production Design
- *Goya's Ghosts* (2006), Production Design
- *All the King's Men* (2006), Production Design
- *The Ice Harvest* (2005), Production Design
- *It Runs in the Family* (2003), Production Design
- *The Emperor's Club* (2002), Production Design
- *South Pacific* (2001), Production Design
- *Shaft* (2000), Production Design
- *Man on the Moon* (1999), Production Design
- *Witness Protection* (1999), Production Design
- *A Simple Plan* (1998), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-simple-plan.md)
- *Mercury Rising* (1998), Production Design
- *The People vs. Larry Flynt* (1996), Production Design
- *Just Cause* (1995), Production Design
- *The Quick and the Dead* (1995), Production Design
- *Six Degrees of Separation* (1993), Production Design
- *Sneakers* (1992), Production Design
- *Billy Bathgate* (1991), Production Design
- *State of Grace* (1990), Production Design
- *Postcards from the Edge* (1990), Production Design
- *The Lemon Sisters* (1989), Production Design
- *Working Girl* (1988), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/working-girl.md)
- *Betrayed* (1988), Production Design
- *No Mercy* (1986), Production Design
- *The Money Pit* (1986), Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-money-pit.md)
- *A Chorus Line* (1985), Production Design
- *Amadeus* (1984), Production Design — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Beat Street* (1984), Production Design
- *Silkwood* (1983), Production Design
- *A Little Sex* (1982), Costume Design
- *Ragtime* (1981), Production Design
- *Heartland* (1981), Production Design
- *Tell Me a Riddle* (1980), Production Design
- *Barn Burning* (1980), as Art Direction
- *Hardhat & Legs* (1980), as Art Direction
- *My Old Man* (1979), Production Design
- *The Halloween That Almost Wasn't* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Breaking Away* (1979), as Art Direction — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/breaking-away.md)
- *Summer of My German Soldier* (1978), Production Design
- *Girlfriends* (1978), as Art Direction
- *The Last Tenant* (1978), as Art Direction
- *Saturday Night Fever* (1977), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/saturday-night-fever.md)
- *Between the Lines* (1977), Costume Design
- *The Candidate* (1972), as Set Decoration

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 1988: Best Production Design (nominated), for *The Untouchables*
- 1985: Best Production Design (won), for *Amadeus*
- 1982: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Ragtime*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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