Remembering Ragtime

The Untouchables: Production Stories

The Making of 'Amadeus'

The Last Tycoon

The Best of Me

Houdini

Words and Pictures

Phil Spector

Albert Nobbs

Violet & Daisy

Limitless

Kill the Irishman

The Last Station

Nights in Rodanthe

Deception

Goya's Ghosts

All the King's Men

The Ice Harvest

It Runs in the Family

The Emperor's Club

South Pacific

Shaft

Man on the Moon

Witness Protection

A Simple Plan

Mercury Rising

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Just Cause

The Quick and the Dead

Six Degrees of Separation

Sneakers

Billy Bathgate

State of Grace

Postcards from the Edge

The Lemon Sisters

Working Girl

Betrayed

No Mercy

The Money Pit

A Chorus Line

Amadeus

Beat Street

Silkwood

A Little Sex

Ragtime

Tell Me a Riddle

Barn Burning

Hardhat & Legs

My Old Man

Heartland

Breaking Away

Summer of My German Soldier

Girlfriends

The Last Tenant

Saturday Night Fever

Between the Lines

The Candidate

Patrizia von Brandenstein (born April 15, 1943) is an American production designer. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy contemporary fare. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design three times, winning for Amadeus (1984).
She was born in Arizona to German Russian emigrant parents. Her education abroad closed with two years as an apprentice at the famed Comédie Française. She started with the off-Broadway scene of 1960s New York at the Actors Studio and La MaMa as a seamstress, prop maker and scene painter. 1966 saw the real start of her career in design with an eight-year stay creating costumes and sets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco under William Ball. She also met future husband and fellow production designer Stuart Wurtzel. She has designed movies in a wide range of subjects, styles, and periods: from the low-budget, break-dancing musical Beat Street to the expensive plutonium-plant melodrama Silkwood.
Director Neil Burger, in his DVD commentary for Limitless, singles out von Brandenstein for her excellent work on the film.

