Jenny Beavan has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award.
21 Facts About Jenny Beavan
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Jenny Beavan came to prominence for her decade-long collaboration with John Bright on creating the costumes for Merchant Ivory Productions.
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Jenny Beavan has received 12 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won three times for A Room with a View, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella.
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Jenny Beavan has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design ten times and had a record four wins for A Room With a View, Gosford Park, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella.
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On television, Jenny Beavan has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special five times, winning twice for Emma and Return to Cranford.
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Jenny Beavan has received three nominations for the British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Costume Design.
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On stage, Jenny Beavan created costumes for numerous productions, including those of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the West End, and Broadway.
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Jenny Beavan garnered the Tony Award for Best Costume Design nomination for the 2002 Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
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Jenny Beavan has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for the 2001 West End revival of Private Lives.
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Jenny Beavan's father was a cellist, and her mother a viola player.
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Jenny Beavan attended Putney High School, an independent girls' day school in Putney, London.
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Jenny Beavan is known for her work on Merchant Ivory films.
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Jenny Beavan joined the field of film costume design after obtaining an unpaid position to design garments for a small Merchant Ivory film, Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures.
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Jenny Beavan was assistant to Judy Moorcroft on the 1979 film The Europeans, the first 'proper' Merchant-Ivory film that featured precise and authentic period costuming.
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Jenny Beavan has frequently worked with costume designer John Bright, who runs the costume-rental house Cosprop, and credits him with educating her as she was starting out her career.
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Jenny Beavan said she was helped by "just listening to him and learning from him, learning the history and the politics of clothing".
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In 2016, Jenny Beavan won her 3rd BAFTA and 2nd Academy Award in George Miller's post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Jenny Beavan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama production.
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In June 2018, Jenny Beavan was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Arts University Bournemouth alongside dancer Darcey Bussell, graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE, and director and screenwriter Edgar Wright.
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In 2022, Jenny Beavan nabbed her 4th BAFTA, as well as her 3rd Academy Award for Craig Gillespie's Disney live-action spin-off of Cruella.
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Jenny Beavan has one daughter, Caitlin, a theatre producer born in 1985.