Anna Asp

{{Short description|Swedish production designer and art director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Anna Asp | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|5|16}} | birth_place = [[Söderhamn]], [[Sweden]] | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = [[Production designer]]<br />[[Art director#In film|Art director]] | years_active = 1971-present }} '''Anna Asp''' (born 16 May 1946) is a Swedish [[production designer]] and [[Art director#In film|art director]]. She studied at [[Christer Strömholm]]s School of Photography and then at [[Dramatiska Institutet]] in Stockholm in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name = "NordicWomen">{{Cite web| url = https://www.nordicwomeninfilm.com/person/anna-asp/ |title = Anna Asp | work = Nordic Women in Film | access-date = 4 July 2021}}</ref>

Over the course of her career Asp has collaborated on films with directors [[Ingmar Bergman]], [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], [[Bille August]] and [[Woody Allen]], among others. She won the [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Academy Award for Best Art Direction]] in [[56th Academy Awards|1983]] for her work in ''[[Fanny and Alexander]]''.<ref name="Oscars1984">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-09|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref> At the [[28th Guldbagge Awards]] she won the Creative Achievement award.<ref name="28thGuldbagge">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=69391&iv=AWARDS |title=Anna Asp |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |date=22 March 2014}}</ref> In addition, Asp has worked in theater and television production, including the Swedish TV series [[Wallander (Swedish TV series)|Wallander]]. Asp won the Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film gold medal in 2008 for her "outstanding artistic work."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.svd.se/guldmedalj-till-scenografen-anna-asp |title = Guldmedalj till scenografen Anna Asp | author = Anna Ångström | publisher = Svenska Dagbladet | date = 2008-06-04 | access-date = 6 July 2021}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0039607|name=Anna Asp}}

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