Julie Harris (costume designer)
Diana Julie Harris ( born March 6, 1921 in London) is a British costume designer who won both the Academy Award for Best Costume Design as well as a British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA Film Award ) for the best costumes.
Life
Julie Harris began her career as a costume designer in the film industry in 1947, produced by the film production company Gainsborough Pictures Film Have fun and worked until 1991 at the costume outfit of approximately ninety films.
In 1965 she was first nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes in a black and white film, and indeed for the Mystery Drama Psyche 59 ( 1964) by Alexander Singer with Curd Jürgens, Patricia Neal and Samantha Eggar in the lead roles. Another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes in a color film, she received in 1966 for the staged by Richard Lester Beatles movie Hi- Hi- help! (1965 ) with the Beatles, Leo McKern and Eleanor Bron.
In addition, Julie Harris won the 1966 Oscar for best costume design in black and white film for Darling ( 1965) by John Schlesinger with Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie.
1967 Julie Harris also won a BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes in the color film Last Greetings from Uncle Joe ( The Wrong Box, 1966) by Bryan Forbes with John Mills, Michael Caine and Ralph Richardson.
Another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes in a color film, she got in 1968 for Casino Royale (1967 ) the directors Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, and Robert Parrish David Niven, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress. One final nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for the best costumes she received in 1977 for the fairytale Cinderella's silver shoe (The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella, 1976) by Bryan Forbes with Sherrie Hewson, John Turner and Rosalind Ayres in the lead roles.