John Bright (costume designer)

John Bright is a British costume designer who won both an Oscar for Best Costume Design and a British Academy Film Award for Best Costume .

Life

1965 Bright founded the costume design company Cosprop and began his career as a costume designer in the film industry in 1984 with the movie The Bostonians (The Bostonians) and worked until 2006 at the Costume features 18 films. He worked with director James Ivory and costume designer Jenny Beavan on almost all of his award-winning or film award- nominated works .

For his first film The Ladies from Boston by James Ivory with Christopher Reeve , Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Tandy , he was nominated together with Jenny Beavan at the 1985 Academy Awards for the best costume design. For this, both were nominated for the first time for the British Academy Film Award for the best costumes (BAFTA Film Award). 1987 he and Jenny Beavan won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, specifically for rooms with views (1985) by James Ivory with Maggie Smith , Helena Bonham Carter and Denholm Elliott in the lead roles . At the same time, they both won the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes.

Costume of Emma Thompson in the movie Sense and Sensuality (1995)

Bright and Jenny Beavan were then also in 1988 for an Oscar in this category for the staged also by James Ivory film Maurice nominated (1987), in which James Wilby , Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves played the leading roles. Bright and Jenny Beavan also received Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design in 1993 for Seeing Again in Howards End (1992) by James Ivory with Emma Thompson , Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, and in 1994 for What Was Left of the Day (1993), the director Ivory also directed with Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and James Fox , and most recently at the 1996 Academy Awards for Sense and Sensibility (1995) by Ang Lee with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. He and Jenny Beavan were also nominated for Reunion in Howards End and Sense and Sensibility for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Costumes.

Most recently, John Bright was nominated for a Satellite Award for Outstanding Costume Design in 2005 for The White Countess (2005), directed by James Ivory with Ralph Fiennes , Natasha Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave based on a model by Kazuo Ishiguro .

Filmography (selection)

• 1984: The Bostonians (The Bostonians)
• 1985: Room with a View (A Room with a View)
• 1992: Howards End (Howards End)
• 1993: What is left of the day remained (The Remains of the Day)
• 1995: Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility)
• 1996: What you want (Twelfth Night)
• 2006: Jane Eyre (television multi-parter)

Awards

• 1987 : Oscar for best costume design
• 1987: BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes
• 2005: Satellite Award for The White Countess , nomination

Web links

• John Bright in the Internet Movie Database (English)