1. Simon Bowles is a British feature film production designer.
11 Facts About Simon Bowles
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Simon Bowles trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Simon Bowles designed the underground maze of caves built at Pinewood Studios for The Descent, which won accolades at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, Empire Awards, British Independent Film Awards and Philadelphia Film Festival.
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Reviews credited to Bowles such as "cave sets by production designer Simon Bowles look just like the real thing" and "Simon Bowles' beautifully designed cave sets conjure a world of subterranean darkness".
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In 2012 Simon Bowles designed Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on Hudson" starring Bill Murray, set in 1930s Upstate New York about a British royal family visiting the US and their stay with Franklin Roosevelt, shot entirely in the UK.
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Simon Bowles went on to win the British Film Designers Guild award for his design of this film.
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Simon Bowles designed Amma Asante's "Belle " set in 18th-century Kenwood House, London and "Pride " about English gay and lesbian group supporting the striking miners in the 1980s.
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Between 2013 and 2015 Simon Bowles was the elected chairman of The British Film Designers Guild which represents and promotes the creative talent of Production Designers and the art department in the British film industry.
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Simon Bowles worked with Amma Asante again on "A United Kingdom" which tells the true story of the relationship between Seretse Khama, the chief to be of the Bamangwato tribe in the British colony of Bechuanaland in the late 1940s, and a white, middle-class Englishwoman, Ruth Williams.
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Simon Bowles won at the British Film Designers Guild awards in 2019 for his work on Universal Pictures Johnny English Strikes Again starring Rowan Atkinson.
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Simon Bowles designed The Son written and directed by Florian Zeller, starring Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman and Anthony Hopkins and is currently working on A Quiet Place: Day One created by John Krasinski, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, produced by Paramount Players, Sunday Night Productions and Platinum Dunes.