Catherine Martin is a highly renowned
costume, production and set designer, as well as film producer. Her distinct
and highly original creative aesthetic has been an essential ingredient in many well-known films,
operas and plays.
Her
creative work is commonly collaborated with director, screenwriter, producer
and husband Baz Luhrmann. This collaborative teamwork has been essential to
each film created and the overall productions have been phenomenal. Her film debut with Lurhman, was in 1992 on
the hugely successful Strictly Ballroom, her innovative designs on this film
earned her ‘Best Production Design’ and ‘Best Costume Design at both the BAFTA
and AFI awards’. In addition following this success she also worked on the 1996
production of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrman,
for which she was awarded another ‘BAFTA for Best Production Design’ and an
‘Academy Award Nomination for Best Art Director.’
Her most awarded creations was for her work
on Moulin Rouge! She was awarded two ‘Academy Awards for Costume Design and Art
Direction’, as well as ‘AFI awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume
Design’ and a ‘Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Production Design’ among
many others.
Martin was asked in an interview which one
of her sets she would like to live in, her reply was “If I could live in one of my sets, it would be "Moulin Rouge,"
although, I do love the here and now, and I would always worry about the health
care because I'm slightly neurotic.”
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