Theodor Pištěk is a Czech artist known for creating photo-realistic drawings and paintings, movie costumes and decorations. He won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film Amadeus

Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...

, and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category for the film Valmont

Valmont (film)

Valmont is a 1989 drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. It was adapted for the screen with a screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière...

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He is the son of actor Theodor Pištěk

Theodor Pištek (actor)

Theodor Pištěk was a Czech actor and film director. He appeared in 234 films between 1921 and 1959. He is the father of the costume designer Theodor Pištěk.-Selected filmography:* Kříž u potoka...

 and Marie Ženíšková. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague was founded in 1799 and is the Czech Republic's oldest art college. The school offers twelve Master's degree programs and one Doctoral program.-History:...

 as a pupil of Vratislav Nejezchleba. In 1967, he designed the art concept for the pavilion Člověk a jeho svět (Man and his World) at the Expo Montreal. In the 1970s, after he left the career of a car racer, he focused more on painting and art installation.

He participated in around 105 films, his works were exhibited at dozens of exhibitions around the world. In the 1970s, Pištěk created cartoons for the magazine Ohníček. He is the creator of the Prague Castle Guard uniforms.

Works

Film costume design

• Tarzanova smrt (The Death of Tarzan, 1962)
• Happy End
  Happy End (1966 film)
  Happy End is a 1966 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský. Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the film.-Cast:* Vladimír Menšík - Butcher Bedrich Frydrych* Jaroslava Obermaierová - Julie* Josef Abrhám - Ptacek...
  
   (1966)
• Údolí včel
  Údolí včel (film)
  The Valley of the Bees is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical drama film directed by František Vláčil. The boy Ondrej grows to manhood in a harsh religious order, where, with a hint of homoerotic tension, a Teutonic knight and veteran of the crusades becomes his mentor...
  
   (Valley of the Bees, 1968)
• Marketa Lazarová
  Marketa Lazarová
  Marketa Lazarová is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical film directed by František Vláčil. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Vladislav Vančura...
  
   (1969)
• Touha Sherlocka Holmese
  Touha Sherlocka Holmese
  Touha Sherlocka Holmese is a 1971 Czechoslovak film. The film starred Josef Kemr. Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the film....
  
   (1971)
• Tři oříšky pro Popelku
  Tri oríšky pro Popelku
  Tři oříšky pro Popelku is a Czechoslovak-German fairy-tale film from 1973.It was directed by Václav Vorlíček in co-production between DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme and Barrandov Studios. The story was based on a fairy tale written by Božena Němcová . Main roles were played by Libuše Šafránková and...
  
   (Three Nuts for Cinderella, 1973)
• Zaklete rewiry (Hotel Pacific, 1975)
• Pan Tau
  Pan Tau
  Pan Tau is a character created for a children's television series. 33 episodes were made in Czechoslovakia in cooperation with German TV network WDR from 1967 on. The project ended with a feature film in 1988. Pan Tau, who generally didn't speak, was played by Otto Šimánek...
  
   (1977-78 Czech-German TV series)
• Arabela
  Arabela (TV series)
  Arabela is a television series for children produced for television in Czechoslovakia between 1979 and 1981. The series had 13 episodes and was in the Czech language. Its plot revolved around the members of a regular Czech family, who encounter people who came from the Kingdom of Fairy Tales...
  
   (1979–1981)
• Brontosaurus (1980)
• Postřižiny (1981)
• Návštěvníci
  Návštěvníci (TV series)
  Návštěvníci is a Czechoslovak sci-fi TV series filmed between 1981 and 1983 by Czech director Jindřich Polák. The 15 parts were co-produced with television-companies of the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland and France...
  
   (1981–1983)
• Saráb (1982)
• Amadeus
  Amadeus (film)
  Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...
  
   (1984)
• The Raggedy Rawney
  The Raggedy Rawney
  The Raggedy Rawney is a 1988 British drama film starring Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoe Nathenson, and Zoë Wanamaker. The story is about a young army deserter in an unspecified time and country, who disguises himself as a madwoman and joins a nomadic gypsy caravan...
  
   (1988)
• Valmont
  Valmont (film)
  Valmont is a 1989 drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. It was adapted for the screen with a screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière...
  
   (1989)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt
  The People vs. Larry Flynt
  The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton.The film was written by...
  
  (1996)
• Dune (2000, TV mini-series)
• Children of Dune (2003, TV mini-series).