Elizabeth Haffenden
Elizabeth Haffenden ( born April 18, 1906 in Croydon, Surrey, England; † May 29, 1976 in London) was a British costume designer, the twice Academy Award for Best Costume Design in a color film as well as another British Academy Film Award for the best costumes won.
Life
Elizabeth Haffenden visited after school initially Croydon College of Art, and subsequently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. Your career as a costume designer in the film industry she started in 1934 with the film Colonel Blood and worked until shortly before her death in the production of more than sixty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1960 she first won an Oscar for Best Costume Design in a color film, and indeed for the loss based on the novel by Lew Wallace movie Ben Hur (1959 ) by William Wyler with Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and Haya Harareet in the lead roles.
In 1966 she received along with Joan Bridge for the first time a nomination for the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ) for the best costumes for The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders ( 1965) by Terence Young with Kim Novak, Richard Johnson and Claire Ufland.
In 1967, she received her second Academy Award for Best Costume Design in a color film with Joan Bridge for A Man for All Seasons (1966 ) by Fred Zinnemann with Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, and Leo McKern. At the same time, they won and Joan Bridge and a BAFTA Film Award in 1968 for the best costumes in this film. In addition, both in 1968 received another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes in the musical Half a Sixpence movie ( 1967) by George Sidney with Tommy Steele, Julia Foster Cyril Ritchard and in the lead roles.