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Anna Senior

{{short description|Australian costume designer (born 1941)}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

{{expand German|topic=bio|Anna Senior|date=June 2015}}

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| name = Anna Senior

| other_names = Anne Senior

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1941}}

| birth_place = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1417263|title=Anna Senior interview|accessdate=March 3, 2019}}

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| occupation = Costume designer

| yearsactive = 1969–2008

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Anna Senior {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|OAM}} (born 1941) is an Australian retired costume designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for the film My Brilliant Career (1979).

Selected filmography

=== Film ===

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1977

| The Getting of Wisdom

| Bruce Beresford

|

rowspan="3" | 1978

| Weekend of Shadows

| Tom Jeffrey

|

The Night the Prowler

| Jim Sharman

| aka Patrick White's The Night the Prowler

Money Movers

| Bruce Beresford

|

rowspan="3" | 1979

| The Odd Angry Shot

| Tom Jeffrey

|

My Brilliant Career

| Gillian Armstrong

|

The Journalist

| Michael Thornhill

|

rowspan="2" | 1980

| Breaker Morant

| Bruce Beresford

| wardrobe designer

Maybe This Time

| Chris McGill

| also stylized as ...Maybe This Time

1983

| Phar Lap

| Simon Wincer

| aka Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation

1985

| Robbery Under Arms

| Donald Crombie
Ken Hannam

| Also released in a longer television version

1987

| Les Patterson Saves the World

| George T. Miller

|

1998

| Hurrah

| Frank Shields

|

= Television =

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Year

!Title

!Notes

1982

| Sara Dane

| 8 episodes

rowspan="2" | 1983

| For the Term of His Natural Life

| 3 episodes

Under Capricorn

| 2 episodes

1984

| The Fire in the Stone

| rowspan="2"| Television film

1985

| Archer

1986–1987

| The Challenge

| Unknown episodes

rowspan="2" | 1988

| The First Kangaroos

| Television film

Dadah Is Death

| Television film

rowspan="2" | 1990

| Flair

| 2 episodes

Jackaroo

| 2 episodes

1992

| The Other Side of Paradise

| 4 episodes

Awards and nominations

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Award

!Year

!Category

!Work

!Result

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rowspan="4" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| AACTA Awards{{efn|formerly known as "Australian Film Institute Awards"}}

| style="text-align:center;"| 1978

| rowspan="4" | Best Achievement in Costume Design

| The Getting of Wisdom

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1970-1979/year/1978/|title= 1978 Winners & Nominees|publisher= Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1979

| My Brilliant Career

| {{won}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1970-1979/year/1979/|title= 1979 Winners & Nominees|publisher= Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1980

| Breaker Morant

| {{won}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1980-1989/year/1980/|title= 1980 Winners & Nominees|publisher= Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1983

| Phar Lap

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1980-1989/year/1983/|title= 1983 Winners & Nominees|publisher= Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Academy Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1980

| Best Costume Design

| My Brilliant Career

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981|title= 53rd Academy Awards|publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

Other honors

Senior was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for service to the visual arts through costume design.{{Cite web |date=13 June 2022 |title=Medal of the Order of Australia |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2010964 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=Australian Government}}

Notes

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References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0784323}}

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Category:1941 births

Category:Living people

Category:Australian costume designers

Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia

Category:Australian women costume designers

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