Oscar-Profitable Costume Designer Catherine Martin To Obtain Australia’s Highest Cinema Award

Essentially the most awarded Aussie in Oscar historical past is ready to obtain the Australian Academy of Cinema and Tv Arts’ (AACTA) most prestigious award. Deadline stories that costume, manufacturing, and set designer and producer Catherine Martin might be be introduced with the Longford Lyell Award, which is the “highest 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 atmosphere and tradition whereas elevating world consciousness about Australia’s thriving movie business.”

Martin has taken dwelling 4 Oscars, two apiece for “Moulin Rouge!” and “The Nice Gatsby.” She additionally acquired noms for “Romeo + Juliet” and “Australia.”

“First introduced in 1968, the Longford Lyell Award honors Australian movie pioneer Raymond Longford and his accomplice in filmmaking and life, Lottie Lyell,” per the supply.

“I’m humbled and honored to be this yr’s recipient of the Longford Lyle Award,” Martin emphasised. “To be acknowledged by one’s friends in a single’s dwelling 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 actually grateful. 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 her long-time collaborator and husband, director Baz Luhrmann. “I usually joke that we’re simply getting began, so I hope this ‘lifetime achievement award’ will not be 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.”

Damian Trewhella, AACTA’s CEO, added, “For greater than three many years, Catherine Martin has been injecting shade and life onto our screens by means of visionary artistry and experimental designs. 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 honor her relentless work and excellent contribution to the business.”

The 2022 AACTA Awards will happen December 7.

Martin’s most up-to-date credit score is “Elvis.” She produced the biopic of the music celebrity and in addition served as costume designer and manufacturing designer on it.