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Years active
  
1984-
2015

Name
  
Janet Patterson


Role
  
Costume Designer

Died
  
October 21, 2016 (aged 60)

Janet Patterson costume designer Janet Patterson (Oscar nominee Best Costume Design for THE PIANO (1993), THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1996) and OSCAR AND LUCINDA (1997), Oscar nominee Achievement in Costume Design for BRIGHT STAR (2009).

Occupation
  
Costume Designer and Production designer

Awards
  
AACTA Award for Best Production Design

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Production designed
  
Bright Star, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke!

Similar People
  
Fanny Brawne, Jan Chapman, Greig Fraser, Jane Campion, Stuart Dryburgh

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Janet Patterson (12 August 1956 - 21 October 2016) was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She won one BAFTA award and four Australian Film Institute awards, and was nominated for four Academy awards.

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Early life and education

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Patterson attended North Sydney Girls High and later attended East Sydney Technical College and Sydney College of the Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and a diploma in Textile Studies and Costume Design. In addition to her studies in Sydney, Patterson received a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust scholarship to study under architect Luigi Snozzi in Switzerland. She began her career in the 1980s working in production design, costume design, and set design for ABC Television.

Death

Patterson's death was announced by her agency, who had stated Patterson's family did not wish to disclose her age or date of death, however actress Nicole Kidman revealed she had died on 21 October 2016.

Oscar Nominations

All four were in Best Costumes

  • 66th Academy Awards – Nominated for The Piano. Lost to The Age of Innocence.
  • 69th Academy Awards – Nominated for The Portrait of a Lady. Lost to The English Patient.
  • 70th Academy Awards – Nominated for Oscar and Lucinda. Lost to Titanic.
  • 82nd Academy Awards – Nominated for Bright Star. Lost to The Young Victoria.

    • BAFTA Awards

    Both are in costumes.

  • The Piano – Won
  • Bright Star – nominated.

    • Australian Film Institute

  • The Last Days of Chez Nous – nominated (production design)
  • The Piano – Won (costumes)
  • Oscar and Lucinda – Won (costumes)
  • Bright Star – Won (for both costumes and production design)

    • Costume Design

  • Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
  • Bright Star (2009)
  • Peter Pan (2003)
  • Holy Smoke! (1999)
  • Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
  • The Piano (1993)
  • The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
  • The Lizard King (1988)
  • Two Friends (1986)
  • Displaced Persons (1985)
  • Palace of Dreams (1985)
  • Sweet and Sour (1984)

    • Production Design

  • Bright Star (2009)
  • Holy Smoke! (1999)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
  • The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
  • Come In Spinner (1990)
  • Bodysurfer (1989)
  • Edens Lost (1989)
  • The Lizard King (1988)
  • Two Friends (1986)
  • Dancing Daze (1986)

    • Other

  • Set design for Four Corners in the mid-80s.

    • References

    Janet Patterson Wikipedia
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