{{short description|English production designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Brian Ackland-Snow | birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|3|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[London]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|3|30|1940|3|31|df=yes}}<ref name="death">{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=brian-ackland-snow&pid=164038344#fbLoggedOut |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505062158/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=brian-ackland-snow&pid=164038344%23fbLoggedOut |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Brian Ackland-Snow obituary |access-date=5 April 2013 |work=[[The Times]] }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20141207232025/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?n=brian-ackland-snow&pid=164038344&referrer=2282 Archived]</ref> | death_place = | occupation = Production designer | years_active = 1962-2002 }}

'''Brian Ackland-Snow''' (31 March 1940 &ndash; 30 March 2013)<ref name="death" /> was an English [[production designer]]. He won an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] for the film ''[[A Room with a View (1986 film)|A Room with a View]]''.<ref name="oscars.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |title=The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners |access-date=31 July 2011 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> He also won an [[Emmy]] for best art direction for a miniseries or special in 1995 for ''Scarlett'' on [[CBS]].<ref>[http://www.emmys.com/bios/brian-ackland-snow Brian Ackland-Snow] Television Academy</ref> His son, Andrew Ackland-Snow, went on to become an art director in films.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PS1g1rnX7rsC&q=andrew+ackland+snow+son.of+brian&pg=RA15-PA10|title=Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994|isbn=9780824037970|author1=Prouty|date=September 1996}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0010068}}

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