Catherine Martin

For other people named Catherine Martin, see Catherine Martin (disambiguation).

Catherine Martin
Born	26 January 1965 (1965-01-26) Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse	Baz Luhrmann (1997-present)

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

Biography

Catherine Martin went to school 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, 26 January 1997.

Their third feature collaboration was Moulin Rouge! (2001), 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).

In 2009, she received a fourth Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Costume Design for another film directed by her husband, Australia, but lost the award to Michael O'Connor for The Duchess.

She also launched a range of home wares, featuring paints, wallpaper and rugs.

Personal life

She met her husband, Baz Luhrmann in college and the pair wed in 1997. The couple have two children together: a girl, Lillian Amanda Luhrmann, born on 10 October 2003 and a boy, William Alexander Luhrmann, who was born on 8 June 2005

Awards

• 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 Costume Design, Australia, 2008 (Nominated)
• 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
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, La Bohème

External links

• catherinemartin.com
• Catherine Martin at the Internet Movie Database
• An interview