Catherine Martin to be honored with Australia’s highest cinema award – Deadline

Oscar and Bafta-winning costume, manufacturing and set designer and producer Catherine Martin is to be honored by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Tv Arts (AACTA) with the physique’s most prestigious award, the Longford Lyell Award.

Martin is probably the most awarded Australian in Oscar historical past with 4 Oscars, 5 BAFTAs, a Tony Award and 5 AFI, three AACTAs and the Byron Kennedy Award.

“I’m humbled and honoured to be this yr’s recipient of the Longford Lyle Award,” mentioned Martin.

“To be acknowledged by one’s friends in a single’s house nation is profoundly significant. Australia, with its myriad filmmaking alternatives and great skills, has been terribly fertile soil for my physique of labor, and for this, I’m really grateful.”

First offered in 1968, the Longford Lyell Award honours Australian movie pioneer Raymond Longford and his associate in filmmaking and life, Lottie Lyell.

The Award is the very best honour that the Australian Academy can bestow upon a person and acknowledges an individual who has made a really excellent contribution to the enrichment of Australia’s display surroundings and tradition whereas elevating international consciousness about Australia’s thriving movie trade.

“The award additionally resonates with me personally as its namesakes had been, as Baz and I’m, each companions in life and artwork,” mentioned Martin, referring to husband and long-time collaborator Baz Luhrmann, who she met whereas finding out design at Australia’s Nationwide Institute of Dramatic Artwork (NIDA).

“I usually joke that we’re simply getting began, so I hope this ‘lifetime achievement award’ isn’t a full cease, however a comma; heralding the start of latest and thrilling artistic adventures to be shared with each long-time collaborators and new artists alike, in entrance of and behind the digicam.”

Catherine Martin has labored alongside Oscar-nominated director, producer and author, Luhrmann, for 30 years.  

Their first collaboration on a characteristic movie was on Strictly Ballroom in 1992, for which she received two Australian Movie Institute Awards (AFI) for Finest Manufacturing Design and Finest Costume Design. They then went on to create the primary of the Pink Curtain Trilogy Romeo + Juliet for which Catherine received an Oscar for Finest Manufacturing Design. 

In 2001, Catherine designed the units and co-designed the costumes with Angus Straithie for Moulin Rouge! and took house two Oscars. Catherine received Broadway’s 2003 Tony Award for Finest Scenic Design of a Musical for her work on Luhrmann’s Broadway adaptation of La Bohème.

In 2008 Martin reunited with Nicole Kidman on the visually breathtaking Australia, for which she received two shared AFI Awards for Finest Manufacturing Design and Finest Costume Design with ElizaGodman.

Martin oversaw the development of 42 units over 14 weeks on The Nice Gatsby, incomes her two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs and two AACTA Awards for Costume Design and Manufacturing Design which she shared with Beverly Dunn.

This yr noticed the discharge of  biopic of the King, Elvis Presley, Elvis which is nominated for 15 AACTA Awards together with for Finest Movie, Finest Path, Finest Lead Actor and Martin is nominated for Finest Costume Design and Finest Manufacturing Design alongside Karen Murphy and Beverley Dunn.

“For greater than three many years, Catherine Martin has been injecting color and life onto our screens by way of visionary artistry and experimental designs,” mentioned AACTA CEO, Damian Trewhella.

“Receiving the Byron Kennedy Award from the Australian Movie Institute in 1999 and now the Longford Lyell Award, 23 years later, exemplifies the dedication she has for her craft. Catherine is held within the highest regard by her friends and audiences globally and the Australian Academy is proud to honour her relentless work and excellent contribution to the trade.

The Longford Lyell Award shall be offered on the 2022 AACTA Awards on December 7.