Michael Wilkinson (costume designer)

Michael Wilkinson ( born October 1, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales as Michael Charles Wilkinson ) is an Australian costume designer. He is best known for his work for the movies 300, Watchmen - The Watchmen, Terminator Salvation, TRON: Legacy and American Hustle.

Life and work

Michael Wilkinson was born in 1970 in Sydney earned a degree in Design from the National Institute of the Dramatic Arts in his hometown of Sydney in Australia. Since the mid- 1990s, he worked in the film industry as a costume designer, first even as a costume designer assistant on such films as the Australian documentary Mary Kay Pavlou, or theatrical production of William Shakespeare 's Romeo Juliet by director Baz Luhrmann before 1997 for the drama True Love and Chaos by Stavros Kazantzidis itself was active in independent function. Together with director Zack Snyder connects him since the movie 300 a friendship. Snyder and Wilkinson already worked together several times in the past. In 2007, he was honored with the first of his four nominations for the Costume Designers Guild Awards for his work for the film Babel. In addition, he received two nominations for the Saturn Award for the films 300 and Tron: Legacy. For the theatrical production Watchmen - The Watchmen, he won the coveted award in 2010. 2014 Wilkinson was honored with both an Oscar and a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Costume Design.

Michael Wilkinson is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Society ( AMPAS ) and at the Costume Designers Guild ( CDG). In 2000, Wilkinson designed the costumes for the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sydney.

Filmography (selection)

Cinema

TV

  • 2003: Life on the Line ( TV movie )
  • 2011: Luck (TV series, one episode )

Short film

  • 2012: Loom

Awards

  • 2008: Nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Costume Design for 300
  • 2010: Saturn Award for Best Costume Design for Watchmen - The Watchmen
  • 2011: Nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Costume Design for Tron: Legacy
  • 2014: nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for American Hustle
  • 2014: nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for American Hustle
  • 2014: nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Costume Design for American Hustle
300 (Film) Babel (Film) Looking for Alibrandi (film) When Strangers Appear Party Monster (2003 film) American Splendor (Film) Garden State (film) Imaginary Heroes Friends with Money Rendition (film) Jonah Hex (Film) Man of Steel (Film) Luck (TV series) 34th Saturn Awards 36th Saturn Awards 37th Saturn Awards 67th British Academy Film Awards
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