Margaret Furse Biography
Margaret Furse (born Alice Margaret Watts, 18 February 1911 – 8 July 1974) was an English costume designer. She has been nominated for the:Academy Award for Best Costume Design:six times, winning for:Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
Personal life
She was born to Punch magazine illustrator Arthur G. Watts and his wife, Phyllis Gordon Watts. She married art director Roger K. Furse on 4 December 1936 at Chelsea Old Church.
Career
She trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (now the Central School of Art and Design) and then joined Motley Theatre Design Group.She became a costume designer in films, her first film was Laurence Olivier's Henry V as *istant designer to Roger Kemble Furse.She had her own costumier business called New Sheridan House.In 1970, she was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and had five other nominations for The Mudlark (1951), Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Scrooge (1970) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).She was also posthumously awarded an Emmy in 1975 for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for "Love Among the Ruins" (ABC Theatre, 6 March 1975) (her only nomination).
Later years
Roger and Margaret Furse divorced in 1953. She remarried and remained with her second husband, the Scottish author, film and drama critic Stephen G. Watts (no relation to her parents), until her death from breast cancer on 8 July 1974, in Kensington, London.
A portrait is in the permanent collection of London's National Portrait Gallery. She was also painted by Gluck.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Emmy Awards
References
External links
- Margaret Furse at IMDb
- Biodata
- Danilo Donati (1968)
- Anthony Mendleson (1969)
- Maria De Matteis (1970)
- Piero Tosi (1971)
- Anthony Mendleson (1972)
- Phyllis Dalton (1973)
- Theoni V. Aldredge (1974)
- Ann Roth (1975)
- Moidele Bickel (1976)
- Danilo Donati (1977)
- Anthony Powell (1978)
- Shirley Ann Russell (1979)
- Seiichiro Momosawa (1980)
- Milena Canonero (1981)
- Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode (1982)
- Piero Tosi (1983)
- Gabriella Pescucci (1984)
- Milena Canonero (1985)
- Jenny Beavan and John Bright (1986)
- Jeffrey Kurland (1987)
- James Acheson (1988)
- Gabriella Pescucci (1989)
- Richard Bruno (1990)
- Franca Squarciapino (1991)
- Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (1992)
- Janet Patterson (1993)
- Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (1994)
- Charles Knode (1995)
- Shuna Harwood (1996)
- Deirdre Clancy (1997)
- Sandy Powell (1998)
- Colleen Atwood (1999)
- Timmy Yip (2000)
- Jenny Beavan (2001)
- Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor (2002)
- Wendy S*es (2003)
- Jacqueline Durran (2004)
- Colleen Atwood (2005)
- Lala Huete (2006)
- Marit Allen (2007)
- Michael O'Connor (2008)
- Sandy Powell (2009)
- Colleen Atwood (2010)
- Mark Bridges (2011)
- Jacqueline Durran (2012)
- Catherine Martin (2013)
- Milena Canonero (2014)
- Jenny Beavan (2015)
- Madeline Fontaine (2016)
- Mark Bridges (2017)
- Sandy Powell (2018)
- Jacqueline Durran (2019)
- Ann Roth (2020)
- Jenny Beavan (2021)
- Catherine Martin (2022)
- Holly Waddington (2023)
