Birthday: August 03, 1906

Hungarian art director Alexander Trauner originally aspired to become a painter. For this purpose, he left his native Budapest and moved to Paris. But there he instead became the assistant to distinguished French art director Lazare Meerson, the creator of "poetic realism," a studio- (rather than location) based movement of cinematic style. During the early '30s, he worked on many of ...more
  • 1991
  • European Film Academy
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • win
  • 1985
  • French Academy of Cinema
  • Best Production Design
  • Subway
  • win
  • 1979
  • French Academy of Cinema
  • Best Production Design
  • Don Giovanni
  • win
  • 1976
  • French Academy of Cinema
  • Best Production Design
  • Mr. Klein
  • win
  • 1989
  • Reunion
  • Man at Warehouse Office


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