One of the most imaginative and prolific production designers working today and fresh from her glory at the EE British Academy Film Awards, Eve Stewart will host a special event on the craft of production design, talking us through her BAFTA and Oscar-nominated designs on films including Les Misérables, The King’s Speech, The Damned United and Topsy Turvy.
Throughout her career Stewart has worked with world class visionary directors. From her early work with Terry Gilliam to her collaboration with Mike Leigh, bringing the colourful world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life in Topsy Turvy (1999), for which she was Oscar-nominated, to the homes of 1950s Britain in Vera Drake (2004), earning a BAFTA nomination. In 2010 she brought the grand royal residences and homes of depression-era London in Tom Hooper’s multiple Oscar and BAFTA-winning hit The King’s Speech, which earned Stewart both an Academy Award and a BAFTA nomination. Stewart’s previous collaboration with Hooper was The Damned United, recreating the legendary world of British football in the late-1960s, to tell the story of former Derby City manager Brian Clough’s tenure at Leeds United. For her most recent collaboration with Hooper on Les Misérables, Stewart brought the prisons, workhouses and battles of nineteenth century revolutionary France to life and won a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for it.
For television, Stewart also recently designed period London townhouses, newsrooms, tiny apartments and grand country estates for two major BBC series, set in pre and post-war Britain, Upstairs Downstairs and The Hour, as well as her work creating the colourful world of 1950s midwifery in Call The Midwife.
Stewart is currently filming The Muppets…Again for director James Bobin.
Presented in partnership with the Skillset Craft and Technical Skills Academy and Creative England.
