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.
