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This Australian designer has forged a career working with strong female directors. Janet Patterson spent much of the 1970s studying costuming and interior design. By 1980, she was working as a production designer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working on numerous TV-movies like "Eden's Lost", "Come in Spinner" and Jane Campion's award-winning "Two Friends" (1986). After spending a decade in television, Patterson moved to the big screen with Gillian Armstrong's contemporary drama "The Last Days of Chez Nous" (1992), in which the spatial aspects of the settings and the characters interaction with those areas play a major role....
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones

Filmography

Eucalyptus - ( Production Designer / / Announced / )
Peter Pan - ( Costume Designer / 2003 / Released / )
Holy Smoke - ( Production Designer / 1999 / Released / )
Holy Smoke - ( Costume Designer / 1999 / Released / )
Oscar and Lucinda - ( Costume Designer / 1997 / Released / )
Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship - ( Production Designer / 1996 / Released / )
The Portrait of A Lady - ( Production Designer / 1996 / Released / )
The Portrait of A Lady - ( Costume Designer / 1996 / Released / )
Two Friends - ( Other(- designer) / 1996 / Released / )
The Piano - ( Costume Designer / 1993 / Released / Belga Films )
The Last Days of Chez Nous - ( Production Designer / 1991 / Released / Beyond Films )
The Last Days of Chez Nous - ( Costumes / 1991 / Released / Beyond Films )
City of Shadows - ( Production Assistant / 1988 / Released / Cineplex Odeon )
TV Credits
Intimate Portrait: Katharine Graham ( 1998 / Released ): Production Manager
Full Biography (Back to top)

This Australian designer has forged a career working with strong female directors. Janet Patterson spent much of the 1970s studying costuming and interior design. By 1980, she was working as a production designer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working on numerous TV-movies like "Eden's Lost", "Come in Spinner" and Jane Campion's award-winning "Two Friends" (1986). After spending a decade in television, Patterson moved to the big screen with Gillian Armstrong's contemporary drama "The Last Days of Chez Nous" (1992), in which the spatial aspects of the settings and the characters interaction with those areas play a major role. She won critical praise and her first Oscar nomination (as well as BAFTA and Australian Film Institute Awards) for her Victorian and native costumes for Campion's acclaimed "The Piano" (1993). Again working with Campion, Patterson created both the settings and the costumes for "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996), picking up a second Oscar nod for Best Costume Design. Her work contrasted a bleak, wintry English countryside with colorful yet cruel Italian villas and created the sterile world inhabited by the heroine. Patterson followed with another reteaming with Armstrong on the period drama "Oscar & Lucinda" (1997).

Profession(s):
costume designer, production designer
Sometimes Credited As:
Awards (Back to top)
Australian Film Institute Award Best Costume Design "Oscar and Lucinda" 1998
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Production Design "The Portrait of a Lady" 1996
Australian Film Institute Award Best Costume Design "The Piano" 1993
BAFTA Award Best Costume Design "The Piano" 1993

Milestones (Back to top)
1997 Reteamed with Armstrong for the period drama "Oscar & Lucinda"; received Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design
1996 Was production designer and costume designer on Campion's "The Portrait of a Lady"; won second Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design
1993 Created the costumes for Campion's breakthrough feature, "The Piano"; won first Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design
1992 Feature film debut as production designer and costume designer, "The Last Days of Chez Nous", directed by Gillian Armstrong
1989 Served as production assistant on "City of Shadows"
1986 First collaboration with Jane Campion, the TV-movie "Two Friends"
1980 - 1990 Served as production designer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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