Alan MacDonald (production designer)
# Alan MacDonald (production designer)

Alan MacDonald (c. 1956 – 30 August 2017) was a British production designer. He was best known for his work on The Queen (2006), which earned him nominations for the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film and Best Technical Achievement at the British Independent Film Awards, and for the Rajasthan-set The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) which earned him a nomination for the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film.

In 2013, he designed the sets for the Academy Award-nominated film Philomena. He had also been a production designer for a number of advertisements for global firms including Coca-Cola, Levi's, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, and was the theatrical designer for Kylie Minogue's 2002 "KylieFever2002" tour.

## Filmography

* Absurd (1989) (short)
* Tunnel of Love (1991) (short)
* Man to Man (1992)
* Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994; Art Director)
* Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
* Rogue Trader (1998)
* Nora (2000)
* The Jacket (2005)
* Kinky Boots (2005)
* The Queen (2006)
* The Edge of Love (2008)
* Chéri (2009)
* Tamara Drewe (2010)
* The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
* Philomena (2013)
* The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2 (2015)
* The Program (2015)
* Sing Street (2016)
* Victoria & Abdul (2017)
* Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

## Personal life and death

He suffered from bipolar disorder. MacDonald died by suicide at his Covent Garden home on 31 August 2017, after spending two weeks as an in-patient at the private Nightingale Hospital at a cost of £20,000. His last two film credits, Victoria & Abdul (2017) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), were dedicated to his memory.

