J. Michael Riva
- Dirección de arte
- 28 de junio de 1948 · Manhattan, New York, USA
- 7 de junio de 2012
Biografía
John Michael Riva (June 28, 1948–June 7, 2012), better known as J. Michael Riva, was an American production designer. Riva was born in Manhattan to William Riva, a Broadway set designer, and Maria Elisabeth Sieber, a German-born actress and the daughter of Marlene Dietrich. Riva had three brothers (John Peter, John Paul, and John David). Riva attended the prep school Institute Le Rosey in Switzerland for six years before attending UCLA. Married to Wendy Mickell, he had four sons, Jean-Paul, Mikey, Daniel, and Adam. Riva had a long and prestigious career as an art director and production designer on numerous films, including the 1985 film The Colour Purple, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Other credits include The Goonies (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Iron Man (2008), and Iron Man 2 (2010). His final films, The Amazing Spider-Man and Django Unchained, were released posthumously. He was the production designer for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, as well as for the 74th and 79th Academy Awards in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the latter. Riva suffered a stroke on June 1, 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during production of Django Unchained. He died in a hospital there on June 7, 2012, at age 63. Django director Quentin Tarantino commented, "Michael became a dear friend on this picture, as well as a magnificent, talented colleague." Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Michael Riv, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmografía
- Django desencadenado · Production Design
- The Amazing Spider-Man · Production Design
- Iron Man 2 · Production Design
- Siete almas · Production Design
- Iron Man · Production Design
- Spider-Man 3 · Production Design
- En busca de la felicidad · Production Design
- Zathura: Una aventura espacial · Production Design
- Stealth: La amenaza invisible · Production Design
- Los ángeles de Charlie. Al límite · Production Design
- The Making of 'The Color Purple' · En persona
- Evolution · Production Design
- Charlie’s Angels: Getting G’d Up · En persona
- Charlie’s Angels: Welcome to Angel World · En persona
- Los ángeles de Charlie · Production Design
- Tuesdays with Morrie · Production Design
- Arma letal IV · Production Design
- Seis días y siete noches · Production Design
- Hard Rain · Production Design
- Congo · Production Design
- Un muchacho llamado Norte · Production Design
- Dave, presidente por un día · Production Design
- Algunos hombres buenos · Production Design
- La fuerza de la ilusión · Production Design
- Tango y Cash · Production Design
- Arma letal II · Production Design
- Historias de la cripta · Dirección
- Los fantasmas atacan al jefe · Production Designer, Production Design
- Arma letal · Production Design
- El chico de oro · Production Design
- El color púrpura · Production Design
- Cuentos asombrosos · Dirección
- Los Goonies · Production Design
- The Slugger's Wife · Production Design
- Las aventuras de Buckaroo Banzai · Production Design
- Bad Boys · Production Design
- Halloween II: Sanguinario · Production Design
- La mano · Production Design
- Callie & Son · Production Design
- Gente corriente · Art Direction
- Brubaker · Art Direction
- Charlie y la carrera del rayo de luna · Art Direction
- Bare Knuckles · Production Design
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden · Production Design
- Bad Georgia Road · Art Direction
- Ilsa, la hiena del harén · Production Design