Patricia Norris
| Patricia Norris | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 22, 1931 |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Van Nuys, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Costume and production designer |
| Children | 4 |
Patricia Norris (March 22, 1931 – February 20, 2015)[1] was an American costume designer and production designer, who has worked on many significant American films and was nominated for six Academy Awards in her career.
Career
Norris's first credit as costume designer was for The Late Liz (1971). She went on to design costumes for several iconic films of the 1970s and 80s, including Capricorn One (1977), Days of Heaven (1978), Victor Victoria (1982) and Scarface (1983). In 1980, she designed the costumes for The Elephant Man, the first of many collaborations with director David Lynch. For her next project with Lynch, Blue Velvet, she received her first credit as production designer, taking responsibility for the entirety of the film's decor, not just the costumes. Norris continued to work on all of Lynch's films, up to The Straight Story (1999). In recent years, Norris has collaborated with Plan B Entertainment on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Killing Them Softly (2012), and 12 Years a Slave (2013).[2]
Awards
She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Costume Design: for Days of Heaven, The Elephant Man, Victor Victoria, 2010, Sunset and 12 Years a Slave. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series for the pilot episode of Twin Peaks.
Patricia Norris won the Costume Designers Guild Period Film Award for 12 Years a Slave (2013). [3]
In 2010, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors Guild.[4] She was the only person to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Costume Designers Guild and the Art Directors Guild. [3]
On January 31, 2016, Patricia Norris will be inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in a ceremony to take place at the 20th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. [5]
References
- ↑ Patricia Norris obituary, variety.com; accessed March 4, 2015.
- ↑ Patricia Norris at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Patricia Norris Courted Oscar Six Times Over." Variety. March 10, 2015.
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- ↑ "Four Women Tapped for Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame," Variety.con. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
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