Judy Moorcroft

Judy Moorcroft ( born September 21, 1933 as Judith Christine Moorcroft in Stockport, Cheshire, UK; † 13 December 1991 in London Westminster) was a British costume designer.

Life and work

According to their five -year training at the College of Art in Manchester Judy Moorcroft began in the mid -1960s, their activities at the BBC, who should they belong to 1969. Since the end of the same decade, she designed costumes for movies.

In addition to several minor mainstream productions Judy Moorcroft also supplied repeatedly extensive costume Entwurfe for high-level quality films as James Ivory's The Europeans, who demanded her a great feel for a certain time period. For this film she received her first Oscar nomination in 1980. After her Hollywood entry Yentl, a costume intense love of film with Barbra Streisand, Judy Moorcroft had finally internationally enforced. In a short distance she was at two of the most important and critically acclaimed films of the decade, The Killing Fields - involved Crying country and travel to India, which demanded their very different costume designs. For the latter production from the hand of David Lean's Judy Moorcroft, in 1985, her second Oscar nomination.

Judy Moor Crofts connection work, in turn, were more conventional, rarely artistically challenging projects. Shortly after she was able to provide sustained support for another Indian film, City of Joy, with their costumes, died Judy Moorcroft, only 58 years old with cancer.

Filmography

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