Ana Alvargonzález, winner of the Ricardo Franco Award - Film Academy of the 27th Malaga Festival
The event recognises with this award the set and costume designer with almost thirty years of career dedicated to cinema
The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival (from the 1st to the 10th of March) will give the Ricardo Franco Award to the art director Ana Alvargonzález. With this award, given in collaboration with the Film Academy for the sixteenth consecutive year, the Malaga Festival recognises the different film professionals, prestigious technicians who, with their work behind the cameras, shape the most interesting films on our celluloid.
Ana Alvargonzález, born in Madrid, is an art director and costume designer, known for her numerous works in film, to which she has dedicated herself for almost thirty years. She began her career in 1984 as an assistant to Gerardo Vera and Ivonne Blake, working on films such as Los pazos de Ulloa, La mitad del cielo, Berlin Blues, El amor brujo, Dardanellos and Last Date, among others.
She has designed the costumes for La noche oscura (1989), for which she was nominated for the Goya Award for best costume design, and for Land and Freedom by Ken Loach.
Some of her work as a set designer includes El hombre que perdió su sombra (1991) and La celestina (1996), for which she was nominated for a Goya for best art direction. In 2010, she received the Goya award for best art direction for Pa negre, which she received a Gaudí Award. She has also been art director on Incerta gloria (2017), nominated for a Gaudí Award, and has been Spanish art director on 20 episodes of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones; La caja 507 and also for García la serie of HBO, among many other works.
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