Beatrice Dawson
Beatrice Dawson ( born January 26, 1908 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, † April 16, 1976 in North Yorkshire ) was a British costume designer who nominated once for an Academy Award and three more times for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ) had.
Life
Beatrice Dawson graduated from post-school studies at the Chelsea School of Art, University of London and at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
She began her career in the film industry in 1945 as responsible for the jewelry in the directed by Gabriel Pascal Movie Caesar and Cleopatra ( Caesar and Cleopatra ) with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh in the lead roles. In the following decades, she was involved as a costume designer in the production of almost seventy films.
At the Academy Awards in 1956 she was nominated for an Oscar for best costume design in black and white film, and indeed for the stories of Mr. Pickwick ( Alternative title: Mr. Pickwick, original title: The Pickwick Papers, 1952) by Noel Langley with James Hayter, James Donald and Nigel Patrick.
In 1965 she was nominated two times for BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes: first, for the black and white film Of Human Bondage (Of Human Bondage, 1964), a production of Ken Hughes with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey, on the other hand for the color film the straw doll (Woman of Straw ), a thriller from 1964, directed by Basil Dearden with Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery in the lead roles.
A third and final nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Costume Design she received in 1974 for A Doll's House (A Doll 's House, 1973), a resultant directed by Patrick Garland film adaptation of the play Nora A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, in the Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson played the lead roles.
Other well-known films in which Beatrice Dawson had cooperated as a costume pictures were of Being Earnest ( The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952) by Anthony Asquith on the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde with Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison and Edith Evans, the adventure film Yeti, the Abominable Snowman ( the Abominable Snowman, 1957) by Val Guest with Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker and Maureen Connell, the science fiction movie The Day the Earth caught fire ( the Day the earth caught fire, 1961) by Val Guest with Leo McKern, Edward Judd and Janet Munro, the film drama the Servant ( the Servant, 1963) by Joseph Losey with Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig and the resulting also directed by Joseph Losey film drama Accident - incident in Oxford ( Accident, 1967) with Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker and Jacqueline Sassard.