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Theodore Pistek, the Czech costume and stage designer and illustrator who won an Academy Award for his work on the 1984 film “Amadeus,” has died. He was 93 years old.
His death was announced on Thursday just east of the town of Mukuro prahaWhere he lived and his family confirmed this to the local CTK news agency. They said he died on Wednesday but gave no other details.
Pistek’s costumes have appeared in director Frantisek Vlasil’s films since the late 1950s, including “Marketa Lazarova” and “The Valley of the Bees,” but his best-known work appears in the films of the late Czech-born director Miloš Forman.
The two became friends during mandatory military service in the Communist czechoslovakia,
Forman eventually settled here United States of America after 1968 Soviet led the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and while Pistek lived in Czechoslovakia, the two of them collaborated on films.
Pistek won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in Multiple-oscar The winner was “Amadeus”, which was filmed in Czechoslovakia.
When he accepted the award in 1985, he called it “the greatest and happiest day of my film career”.
Pistek was also nominated for an Academy Award for Forman’s 1989 film “Valmont”. He won the French César Award for that film.
Pistek and Forman also worked together on “The People vs. Larry Flynt”.
Pistik was born on October 25, 1932 in Prague to parents who were both actors. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Prague in 1958. By the mid-1970s, Pistek was also involved in motor racing as a driver and cars became the subject of paintings by him that were exhibited in the United States and elsewhere.
Following the Velvet Revolution led by the late Václav Havel in 1989, which ousted communist rule, Pistek designed uniforms for the guards at Prague Castle, the seat of the presidency.
As President, Havel awarded him a state decoration in 2000.