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Czech Oscar-winning art director and production designer Karel Cerny dies at 92 |
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A picture taken on March 25, 1985, shows Czech Karel Cerny (L), art director for Amadeus movie of US director Milos Forman, when receiving an oscar with Patrizia Von Brandenstein (R), co-art director of the film and US actor Steve Martin in Hollywood on March 25, 1985. Cerny died on September 5, 2014 in Tabor, Czech Republic, aged 92. AFP PHOTO ROB BOREN.
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PRAGUE (AFP).- Karel Cerny, the Czech art director and production designer who won an Oscar in 1985 for his work on Milos Forman's hit film "Amadeus", died at the age of 92 on Friday, his family said.
Cerny won one of the eight Oscars that went to "Amadeus", a film about the rivalry between the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
Shot largely in the historic centre of Prague, the picture was directed by fellow Czech Milos Forman, who fled communist Czechoslovakia to live and work the United States in 1968.
Cerny also worked with Forman on "Black Peter" (1964), "Loves of a Blonde" (1965) and "The Firemen's Ball" (1967).
In 1955, he was part of the team that made "The Journey to the Beginning of Time", directed by Karel Zeman, which combined acting, animation and special effects in a hitherto unprecedented way.
"He had an inborn sense of harmonising the action of actors with the scene and costumes," film historian Briana Cechova said Friday.
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