Catherine Martin

Catherine Martin (born January 26, 1965 Lindfield) is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.

Biography

Catherine Martin did her schooling at North Sydney Girls High School. She did a Diploma Design Course at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, where she started collaborating with her collegemate Baz Luhrmann (now her husband). She designed sets and costumes for his one-act stage precursor of Strictly Ballroom. After completing studies, she worked as a designer on Luhrmann's production of "Lake Lost" (1988).

In 1989, she designed the sets for an Australian stage production of Diary of a Madman starring Geoffrey Rush. She worked on Luhrmann's La bohème (1990) and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She recreated her designs for screen-version of Strictly Ballroom (1992), for which she won two Australian Film Institute Awards (Best Production design and Best Costume design). She won an Oscar nomination (as a production designer) for Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996). She also made her debut as an associate producer for the same. She married Luhrmann on her 32nd birthday, January 26, 1997.

Their third feature collaboration was Moulin Rouge! (2002), the last in Luhrmann's The Red Curtain Trilogy. She designed the sets and co-designed the costumes with Angus Strathie. The feature earned her two Academy Awards: for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

In 2002, she adapted her set and costume designs for Luhrmann's Broadway adaptation of La Bohème, for which she won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical and won a nomination as Best Costume Designer (along with Angus Strathie).

She gave birth to a baby girl, Lillian Amanda Luhrmann, on October 10, 2003. Her son, William Alexander Luhrmann, was born on June 8, 2005^[1].

Awards

Sourced from Hollywood.com^[2]

• Art Directors Guild Award, Period/Fantasy Feature, Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Australian Film Institute Award, Best Production Design, Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Australian Film Institute Award, Best Costume Design, Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Golden Satellite, Best Production Design, Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Golden Satellite, Best Costume Design, Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, Best Production Design, Moulin Rouge!, 2001
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Moulin Rouge!, 2001
• Academy Award for Costume Design, Moulin Rouge!, 2001
• San Diego Film Critics Society Award, Best Production Design Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Australian Film Institute Byron Kennedy Award, 1999
• BAFTA Award, Best Production Design, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 1997
• Golden Satellite, Best Art Direction, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 1996
• Australian Film Institute Award, Best Production Design, Strictly Ballroom, 1992
• Australian Film Institute Award, Best Costume Design, Strictly Ballroom, 1992
• Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award, Best Design, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Victorian Green Room Award, Best Design of an Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Victorian Green Room Award, Best Design of an Opera, Lake Lost

References

1. ^ IMDB Biography for Catherine Martin (I). Retrieved on 2006-09-24.
2. ^ Celeb Detail : Catherine Martin. Retrieved on 2006-09-24.

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