Occupation Set designer Years active 1983–present | Name Nancy Haigh Role Set decorator | |
Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design (1968) Awards Academy Award for Best Production Design Nominations BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Art Direction Set decorated True Grit, Forrest Gump, Bugsy, Dreamgirls Similar Jess Gonchor, Dennis Gassner, Robert Stromberg, Ken Ralston, John Myhre | ||
Nancy Haigh is an American set designer who has received seventh Academy Award nominations, and won for her work on the film Bugsy.
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Nancy Haigh graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1968. While at the college, she was a Fine Arts 3D major studying sculpture and ceramics. In 1995, the college honored her with a Distinguished Alumna Award.
Nancy began her career in film with Francis Ford Coppola's Rumblefish in 1983. Since then, Nancy has been the Set Decorator for numerous movies in collaboration with the Coen brothers.
Awards
In 1991, she was an Academy Award Nominee for Barton Fink. In 1992, she won an Academy Award for her work in Bugsy. In 1994, she was an Academy Award Nominee for Forrest Gump and she was nominated again in 2002 for Road to Perdition. In 2007, she was nominated for Dreamgirls. At the 83rd Academy Awards she was nominated for True Grit. In 2017, she received her seventh Academy Award nomination for Hail, Caesar! at the 89th Academy Awards.
Filmography
Nancy Haigh's filmography as Set Decorator: