J. Michael Riva
- Direction artistique
- 28 juin 1948 · Manhattan, New York, USA
- 7 juin 2012
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Django Unchained · Production Design
- The Amazing Spider-Man · Production Design
- Iron Man 2 · Production Design
- Sept vies · Production Design
- Iron Man · Production Design
- Spider-Man 3 · Production Design
- À la recherche du bonheur · Production Design
- Zathura : Une aventure spatiale · Production Design
- Furtif · Production Design
- Charlie's Angels : Les Anges se déchaînent · Production Design
- The Making of 'The Color Purple' · En personne
- Évolution · Production Design
- Charlie’s Angels: Getting G’d Up · En personne
- Charlie’s Angels: Welcome to Angel World · En personne
- Charlie et ses drôles de dames · Production Design
- Tuesdays with Morrie · Production Design
- L'Arme fatale 4 · Production Design
- Six jours sept nuits · Production Design
- Pluie d'enfer · Production Design
- Congo · Production Design
- L'irrésistible North · Production Design
- Président d'un jour · Production Design
- Des hommes d'honneur · Production Design
- Le Rêve de Bobby · Production Design
- Tango et Cash · Production Design
- L'Arme fatale 2 · Production Design
- Les Contes de la crypte · Réalisation
- Fantômes en fête · Production Designer, Production Design
- L'Arme fatale · Production Design
- Golden Child : L'Enfant sacré du Tibet · Production Design
- La Couleur pourpre · Production Design
- Histoires fantastiques · Réalisation
- Les Goonies · Production Design
- The Slugger's Wife · Production Design
- Les Aventures de Buckaroo Banzaï à travers la 8e dimension · Production Design
- Bad Boys · Production Design
- Halloween 2 · Production Design
- La Main du cauchemar · Production Design
- Callie & Son · Production Design
- Des gens comme les autres · Art Direction
- Brubaker · Art Direction
- Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider · Art Direction
- Le Maniaque · Production Design
- Jamais je ne t'ai promis un jardin de roses · Production Design
- Bad Georgia Road · Art Direction
- Ilsa, gardienne du harem · Production Design