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Jocelyn Rickards

Costume Designer | * 07/29/1924 († 80, 07/07/2005) | Melbourne (Australia)
Jocelyn Rickards (29 July 1924 – 7 July 2005) was an Australian artist and costume designer. She was born in Melbourne in 1924, and moved to London as a young woman. During the 1940s to 1950s, she was one of the Merioola Group of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by Paul Haefliger was the source of the coined phrase "The Charm School" to describe these Sydney artists. In 1966 Rickards won a BAFTA Film Award for the film Mademoiselle. In 1967 she was nominated at the 39th Academy Awards in the category of Best Costumes-Black and White for her work on the film Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment. Poor health led to an early end to her career as a designer, but she later taught costume design at the University of Southern California. Rickards was married to Leonard Rosoman from 1963 until divorcing in 1970; the following year, she married Clive Donner. Her autobiography The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves, was published in 1987 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and was praised thus by Graham Greene (a former lover of hers): "An outstanding capacity for friendship - rare in the jealous world of art and letters to which she belongs - makes Jocelyn Rickard's autobiography unusually a... ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for Jocelyn Rickards

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-And-White
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Movies with Jocelyn Rickards as Crew(13)

Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Designer1970 Ryan's Daughter
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1969 Laughter in the Dark
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1968 Interlude
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1968 The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1966 Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1966 Blow-Up
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1966 Mademoiselle
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1965 The Knack... and How to Get It
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1963 From Russia with Love
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Designer1960 The Entertainer
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Design1959 Look Back in Anger
Costume & Make-Up/Assistant Costume Designer1957 The Prince and the Showgirl

Full Name: Jocelyn Rickards
Citizenship: Australia
Born: Tuesday, 07/29 1924 (July) in Melbourne (Australia)
Died: Thursday, 07/07 2005 (July) in London (aged: 80)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Spouses (current/former): Clive Donner, Leonard Rosoman
Jocelyn Rickards frequently works together with these people:
Laurence Olivier (4x, Actor)
Harry Saltzman (4x, Crew)
Tony Richardson (4x, Crew)
John Osborne (4x, Crew)
Miriam Brickman (3x, Crew)
Assheton Gorton (3x, Crew)
John Barry (3x, Crew)
Jane Birkin (2x, Actress)
Shirley MacLaine (2x, Actress)
Sarah Miles (2x, Actress)
John Bluthal (2x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:696545, Added: 10/29/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024