Patricia Norris

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. 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]

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