Anna senior
Anna Senior (* 1941 in Canberra , Australia ) is an Australian costume designer . She became known in the 1970s and 1980s for her work for films such as My Brilliant Career , The Fall of Lieutnant Morant , Phar Lap - Legend of a Nation , Bandit from a Good House or Les Patterson Saves the World .
life and work
Anna Senior began her career as a costume designer in the late 1970s with films such as Tom Jeffrey's Weekend of Shadows and The Night, the Prowler by director Jim Sharman . In 1979 she was in charge of director Gillian Armstrong's romantic drama My Brilliant Career with Judy Davis , Sam Neill and Wendy Hughes in the lead roles, for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design at the 1981 awards ceremony . In the 1980s, further work for directors such as Bruce Beresford , Simon Wincer , Donald Crombie and George Miller followed .
She has been nominated for the Australian AACTA Award several times for her work . In 1979 and 1980 she was able to win the trophy in the category Best Achievement in Costume Design . In 1998 she created her last costume designs for a movie for the drama of Frank Shields.
Anna Senior lives and works as a freelance costume designer in New South Wales , Australia.
Awards
- 1978: AACTA Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Costume Design for The Getting of Wisdom
- 1979: AACTA Award in the category Best Achievement in Costume Design for My Brilliant Career
- 1980: AACTA Award in the Best Achievement in Costume Design category for Lieutnant Morant's Fall
- 1981: Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design at the 1981 Awards for My Brilliant Career
- 1983: AACTA Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Costume Design for Phar Lap - Legend of a Nation
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1978: Weekend of Shadows
- 1978: The Night, the Prowler
- 1978: The Money Movers
- 1978: The Getting of Wisdom
- 1979: Through the Hell of Vietnam (The Odd Angry Shot)
- 1979: My brilliant career (My Brilliant Career)
- 1979: The Journalist
- 1980: The Fall of Lieutnant Morant (Breaker 'Morant)
- 1981: ... Maybe This Time
- 1983: Phar Lap - Legend of a Nation (Phar Lap)
- 1984: The Fire in the Stone
- 1985: Bandit from a Good House (Robbery Under Arms)
- 1987: Les Patterson Saves the World
- 1988: The First Kangaroos
- 1998: Hurray
watch TV
- 1982: Sara Dane (TV movie)
- 1983: Under Capricorn (TV miniseries)
- 1983: Banished in Hell (For the Term of His Natural Life) (TV movie)
- 1985: The Adventures of a Racehorse (Archer) (TV movie)
- 1986: The Challenge (TV miniseries)
- 1988: Dada Means Death (Dadah Is Death) (TV movie)
- 1990: Flair (TV miniseries)
- 1992: Verlorenes Paradies (The Other Side of Paradise) (TV movie)
literature
- Anna senior. In: Kate Bales: Cinematographers, production designers, costume designers and film editors guide. , Lone Eagle Publishing Company, 1998, p. 509
Web links
- Anna Senior in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmography by Anna Senior in: The New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Senior interviewed by Bill Stephens (sound recording) , catalogue.nla.gov.au , accessed on February 27, 2015
- ↑ Anna Senior. In: James Pallot: The Movie Guide. , Berkeley Publishing Group, 1995, p. 574
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Senior, Anna |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian costume designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Canberra , Australia |