Anna B. Sheppard

{{short description|Polish costume designer (born 1946)}}

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Anna Biedrzycka Sheppard (born 18 January 1946) is a Polish costume designer. Sheppard made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg, Roman Polański, and Quentin Tarantino. She has earned three Academy Award for Best Costume Design nominations for Schindler's List (1993), The Pianist (2002), and Maleficent (2014). Recently she has designed costumes for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). She has also designed costumes for the televisions series Band of Brothers (2001), and The Prisoner (2009).

Early life

Born in 1946 in Poland she is the sister to fellow costume designer Magdalena Biedrzycka. She graduated with architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and now lives in London.

Career

She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Schindler's List in 1993 and The Pianist in 2003, and a third nomination for Maleficent shared with Jane Clive.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2015|title=87th Academy Awards|accessdate=January 15, 2015}} She was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Schindler's List and César Award for The Pianist. Sheppard's work with Thomas Casterline on Dragonheart earned her a 1997 Saturn Award nomination as well.

Filmography

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Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

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1993rowspan=3|Best Costume DesignSchindler's List{{nom}}
2002The Pianist{{nom}}
2014Maleficent{{nom}}

References

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