Odile Dicks-Mireaux

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Odile Dicks-Mireaux
NationalityBritish
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1982–present

Odile Dicks-Mireaux is a British costume designer. Her work include productions for both cinema like the Academy Award-nominated films An Education (2009) and Brooklyn (2015) and television like the BBC One drama The Lost Prince and the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), receiving an Emmy Award for the former and a BAFTA Craft Award for the latter.

Career[]

Dicks-Mireaux studied threatre design at the Central School of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. After leaving college she worked in fringe theatre with companies such as Pip Simmons and Belt and Braces.[1]

In 1979, she joined BBC as an assistant, becoming a designer in 1982 working in several television productions from the network including eight episodes from the nineteenth season of the science fiction television series Doctor Who in 1982, the sitcom The Black Adder (1983), the miniseries Oscar (1985) and Melissa (1997) and the two-part series The Woman in White, receiving her first BAFTA nomination for Best Costume Design for the latter in 1998, she was nominated for the award again in 2000 and 2001 for Great Expectations and Gormenghast, respectively, winning for the former.

In 1996, she left BBC and went on to work in different feature films like Stephen Frears's thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Fernando Meirelles's drama thriller The Constant Gardener (2005), Lone Scherfig's coming-of-age drama An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design and Dustin Hoffman's comedy-drama Quartet (2012).

She has also worked on television series such as BBC One's drama The Lost Prince, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special alongside Colin May in 2005, NBC's action drama The Philanthropist and the episode Richard II from BBC Two's The Hollow Crown in 2012 receiving her fourth BAFTA Craft Award nomination.

In 2015, she worked in John Crowley's romantic period drama Brooklyn, receiving several nominations, including for a BAFTA Film Award, a Critics' Choice Award and a Costume Designers Guild Award.[2][3] In 2019, she worked on the HBO's historical miniseries Chernobyl about the disaster of the same name, for the costumes of the limited series she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes alongside Daiva Petrulyte, Holly McLean, Anna Munro and Sylvie Org and won her second BAFTA Television Craft Award.[4]

It has been reported that she is working in Edgar Wright's upcoming psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, set to be released in 2021 and Tom George's upcoming mystery film See How They Run.[5]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Director Notes
1994 Captives Angela Pope
2001 Buffalo Soldiers Gregor Jordan
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) Stewart Sugg
2002 Dirty Pretty Things Stephen Frears
2004 If Only Gil Junger
2005 The Constant Gardener Fernando Meirelles
2006 Like Minds Gregory J. Read
2008 Dean Spanley Toa Fraser
10,000 BC Roland Emmerich
The Bank Job Roger Donaldson
2009 An Education Lone Scherfig
2010 London Boulevard Ken Bruen
2011 One Day Lone Scherfig
2012 Bel Ami Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod
Quartet Dustin Hoffman
2014 A Long Way Down Pascal Chaumeil
2015 High-Rise Ben Wheatley
Brooklyn John Crowley
2016 Denial Mick Jackson
2017 Goodbye Christopher Robin Simon Curtis
Disobedience Sebastián Lelio
The Sense of an Ending Ritesh Batra
2021 Last Night in Soho Edgar Wright Post-production
2022 See How They Run Tom George

Television[]

Year Title Notes
1982 Doctor Who Episodes: "The Visitation" (four parts), "Castrovalva" (four parts)
1982-1984 Top of the Pops Episodes: S19E13 to S19E24
1983 Grange Hill Episodes: "New Faces", "On Trial", "Publication", "Rally"
The Black Adder Episodes: "The Foretelling", "Born to Be King", "The Archbishop",
"The Queen of Spain's Beard", "Witchsmeller Pursuivant", "The Black Seal"
1984 Sharing Time Episodes: "For Business Reasons", "High Hopes", "Oceans Apart"
1985 Oscar Episodes: "De Profundis", "Trials", "Gilded Youth"
1986 The Happy Valley TV Movie
1986-1993 Screen Two Episodes: "The Silent Twins", "Sweet as You Are", "My Sister-Wife", "The Clothes in the Wardrobe"
1988 Theatre Night Episode: "The Miser"
1997 Melissa Five episodes
The Woman in White
1998 A Certain Justice
1999 Great Expectations TV Movie
2000 Cor, Blimey!
Gormenghast Three episodes
2003 The Deal TV Movie
The Lost Prince
2009 The Philanthropist Episodes: "Pilot", "Paris", "Kosovo"
2012 The Hollow Crown Episode: "Richard II"
2019 Chernobyl Five episodes

Awards and nominations[]

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1998 British Academy Television Awards Best Costume Design The Woman in White Nominated
2000 British Academy Television Craft Awards Best Costume Design Great Expectations Won [6]
Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards Costume Design - Drama Gormenghast Nominated [7]
2001 British Academy Television Craft Awards Best Costume Design Nominated [8]
2003 Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards Costume Design - Drama The Lost Prince Won [9]
2005 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Won [10]
2009 British Academy Film Awards Best Costume Design An Education Nominated
Qantas Film and Television Awards Best Costume Design in a Feature Film Dean Spanley Won
2013 British Academy Television Craft Awards Best Costume Design Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Nominated [11]
2015 British Academy Film Awards Best Costume Design Brooklyn Nominated [12]
Critics' Choice Awards Best Costume Design Nominated [13]
Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Period Film Nominated [14]
2019 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Outstanding Period Costumes Chernobyl Nominated [10]
Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Period Television Nominated [15]
Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards Costume Design - Drama Won [16]
2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards Best Costume Design Won [4]

References[]

  1. ^ "An Education" (PDF). BBC Films and Endgame Entertainment. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ Soo Hoo, Fawnia (4 November 2015). "'BROOKLYN,' THE MOVIE, IS A PARADE OF '50S STYLE — AND IT'S ALL VINTAGE". Fashionista. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  3. ^ Galas, Marj (17 December 2015). "'Brooklyn' Gets the Personal Touch From Costume Designer". Variety. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b "'Chernobyl' Leads 2020 BAFTA TV Craft Awards". bbc. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Odile Dicks-Mireaux" (PDF). SANDRA MARSH & ASSOCIATES. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  6. ^ "BFI - Film & TV Database - BAFTA Craft Awards 1999". British Film Institute (BFI). Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  7. ^ "RTS CRAFT AND DESIGN WINNERS 2000". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  8. ^ Staff (22 April 2001). "Longitude wins Bafta hat-trick". British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  9. ^ "RTS CRAFT AND DESIGN WINNERS 2003". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Odile Dicks-Mireaux". National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  11. ^ Goodrich, Helena (25 March 2013). "Parade's End leads the BAFTA TV Craft Awards nominations". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group (Press Holdings). Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  12. ^ Brown, Mark; Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (14 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: The Revenant and Mad Max maul competition as Carol snubbed". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Critics' Choice Awards Nominations: 'Mad Max' Leads Film; ABC, HBO, FX Networks & 'Fargo' Top TV". Deadline Hollywood. December 14, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Nominees for the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards Announced". Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  15. ^ Tangcay, Jazz (December 10, 2019). "'Hustlers,' 'Jojo Rabbit' and 'Queen & Slim' Receive Costume Design Nominations". Variety. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  16. ^ "CRAFT & DESIGN AWARDS 2019 SPONSORED BY GRAVITY MEDIA". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

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