---
name: "Theodor Pištěk"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/theodor-pistek"
fi1m_id: "theodor-pistek"
imdb_id: "nm0685551"
tmdb_id: 957046
wikidata_id: "Q212277"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "25 October 1932"
died: "3 December 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T16:30:40.903813+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."
---

# Theodor Pištěk

## Identity

Theodor Pištěk

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/theodor-pistek
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** theodor-pistek
- **IMDb ID:** nm0685551
- **TMDB ID:** 957046
- **Wikidata ID:** Q212277
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_(artist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212277, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685551/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957046

Costume designer. Born 25 October 1932 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Died 3 December 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 25 October 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
- **Died:** 3 December 2025
- **Active:** 1967–1984
- **Also known as:** Theodor Pistek, Theodor Pištěk ml., Теодор Пиштек, Т. Пиштек
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 84 (1), 1980s 91 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_(artist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212277, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685551/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957046

## Biography

Theodor Pištěk (25 October 1932 – 3 December 2025) was a Czech costume designer and painter. Born in Prague, he worked extensively in film from the 1960s onwards, designing costumes for more than 100 productions. He is best known for his work on Miloš Forman’s *Amadeus* (1984), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

Pištěk studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He collaborated repeatedly with Forman, also designing costumes for *Valmont* (1989), which earned him a César Award, and *The People vs. Larry Flynt* (1996). Other notable credits include *Three Wishes for Cinderella* (1973), *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), *Valmont* (1989), the television miniseries *Dune* (2000) and *Children of Dune* (2003).

After the Velvet Revolution he designed new uniforms for the Prague Castle Guard. He also maintained a parallel career as a photorealist painter and exhibited widely.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), Fi1m 84, Costume Design, Costume design, Art Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/marketa-lazarova.md)

## Complete filmography (92)

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

- *Frank Herbert's Children of Dune* (2003), series, Costume Design
- *Frank Herbert's Dune* (2000), series, Costume Design
- *The People vs. Larry Flynt* (1996), Costume Design
- *Valmont* (1989), Costume Design
- *Shades of Fern* (1986), Costume Design
- *Rumburak* (1984), Costume Design
- *Amadeus* (1984), Costume Design — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *The Visitors* (1983), series, Costume Design
- *Salt & Gold* (1983), Costume Design
- *The Balad of Mamelouk* (1982), Costume Design
- *Zelená vlna* (1982), Costume Design
- *Ferat Vampire* (1982), Title Designer, Costume Design, Special Props
- *Serpent's Poison* (1982), Costume Design
- *Dostih* (1982), Costume Design
- *Mature Wine* (1981), Costume Design
- *Concert* (1981), Costume Design
- *Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci* (1981), Costume Design
- *Cutting It Short* (1981), Costume Design
- *Arabela* (1980), series, Costume Design
- *Brontosaurus* (1980), Costume Design
- *Postavení mimo hru* (1979), Costume Design
- *Prince and the Evening Star* (1979), Costume Design
- *Death of Hitch-Hikers* (1979), Costume Design
- *The Cat Prince* (1979), Costume Design
- *Those Wonderful Movie Cranks* (1979), Costume Design
- *House Call* (1979), Costume Design
- *On the Great River* (1978), Costume Design
- *Alarm in the Clouds* (1978), Costume Design
- *Shadows of a Hot Summer* (1978), Costume Design
- *Settlement of Crows* (1978), Costume Design
- *Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet* (1978), Costume Design
- *How to Wake a Princess* (1978), Costume Design
- *Long Live Ghosts!* (1977), Costume Design
- *A Nice Plate of Spinach* (1977), Costume Design
- *Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea* (1977), as Art Direction · Costume Design
- *Přikázaný směr jízdy* (1977), Costume Design
- *We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...* (1976), Costume Design
- *Summer with a Cowboy* (1976), Costume Design
- *Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!* (1976), Costume Design
- *The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes* (1976), Costume Design
- *Wine Working* (1976), Costume Design
- *Boys Will Be Boys* (1976), Costume Design
- *Na konci světa* (1975), Costume Design
- *Hotel Pacific* (1975), Costume Design
- *This Is How Love Begins...* (1975), Costume Design
- *Dva muži hlásí příchod* (1975), Costume Design
- *Zbraně pro Prahu* (1975), Costume Design
- *Kto odchádza v daždi...* (1975), Costume Design
- *How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer* (1975), Costume Design
- *Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně* (1975), Costume Design
- *Robinson Girl* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Fair Is Here* (1974), Costume Design
- *Pavlínka* (1974), Costume Design
- *Joachim, Put It in the Machine* (1974), Costume Design
- *Tři nevinní* (1974), Costume Design
- *Jakou barvu má láska* (1974), Costume Design
- *Vodník a Zuzana* (1974), Costume Design
- *Siroty* (1974), Costume Design
- *Three Men Travelling* (1973), Costume Design
- *Three Wishes for Cinderella* (1973), Costume Design
- *Love* (1973), Costume Design
- *Death Chooses* (1973), Costume Design
- *Legenda, the Robber* (1973), Costume Design
- *Čertova stěna* (1973), Costume Designer
- *Six Bears and a Clown* (1972), Costume Design
- *We, the Lost Girls* (1972), Costume Design
- *Vlak do stanice Nebe* (1972), Costume Design
- *The Girl on the Broomstick* (1972), Makeup Designer, Costume Design
- *About Show-White* (1972), Costume Design
- *Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela* (1972), Costume Design
- *Touha Sherlocka Holmese* (1972), Costume Design
- *Vím, že jsi vrah...* (1972), Costume Design
- *Hry lásky šálivé* (1971), Costume Design
- *Four Murders Are Enough, Darling* (1971), Costume Design
- *Luk královny Dorotky* (1971), Costume Design
- *You Are a Widow, Sir* (1971), Costume Design
- *Pan Tau* (1970), series, Costume Design
- *A Case for a Rookie Hangman* (1970), Costume Design
- *I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen* (1970), Costume Design
- *Adelheid* (1970), Costume Design
- *Prague Nights* (1969), Costume Design
- *Lanfieri Colony* (1968), Costume Design
- *The Valley of the Bees* (1968), Costume Design
- *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), Art Designer, Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/marketa-lazarova.md)
- *Happy End* (1967), Costume Design
- *Poklad byzantského kupce* (1967), Costume Design
- *Bubny* (1965), Costume Design
- *Blbec z Xeenemünde* (1963), Costume Design
- *Tarzanova smrt* (1963), Costume Design
- *The Devil's Trap* (1962), Costume Design
- *The White Dove* (1960), Art Designer, Costume Design
- *Florenc 13,30* (1957), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Theodor Pištěk](https://film.one/media/person/102807/gallery-1ddb693a10df.jpg) Theodor Pištěk — Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_%282017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Theodor Pištěk, Czech painter, Oscar award for film costumes (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/102807/gallery-f5865d1bf420.jpg) Theodor Pištěk, Czech painter, Oscar award for film costumes (2012) — Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Theodor-Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1990: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *Valmont*
- 1985: Best Costume Design (won), for *Amadeus*

### Other awards — 3 won

- Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film 2003: Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film (won)
- Czech Medal of Merit 2000: Czech Medal of Merit (won)
- César Award for Best Costume Design 1990: César Award for Best Costume Design (won), for *Valmont*

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

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