Alexandra Byrne

Alexandra Byrne (born 1962 ) is an American costume designer who also won some other film awards for best film costumes alongside an Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Biography

Alexandra Byrne began as a costume designer, first on Broadway and received a nomination for the 1990 Tony Award for Best Costume Design in Some Americans Abroad. In 1993, she worked as a costume designer for the television series The Buddha of Suburbia based on the novel by Hanif Kureishi and received this same 1994 her first nomination for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA ). In 1994 she won the BAFTA Award for costumes in Jane Austen's Seduction (1995).

At the Academy Awards in 1997, she was first nominated for Hamlet ( 1996) for the Oscar for Best Costume Design, and received both a BAFTA nomination for the costumes in this film. For both of these prices it was at the Academy Awards in 1999 and nominated for the BAFTA Awards in 1999, this time for Elizabeth (1998). In addition, she received the award for Best Costume Design at the Satellite Awards for 1998 ( Golden Satellite Award ) for the film.

For the costumes in The Phantom of the Opera ( 2004) it was 2004 for a Golden Satellite Award, in 2005 the Prize of the Guild of the costume designer ( Costumer Designers Guild ( CDG Award) ) and the 2005 Saturn Award for Best Costume Design nomination. Learn to fly For When Dreams (2004 ) she was nominated in 2005 not only for another Oscar, but also for another British Academy Film Award.

At the Academy Awards in 2008 they finally won the Oscar for best costume design in the movie Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007). For this they also won not only another Satellite Award for Best Costume Design, but was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2008 and a further CDG Award.

She is married to British actor Simon Shepherd and has four children with this.