Catherine Martin (coproducer, production & costume designer) has been lauded for her work on Moulin Rouge! with two Academy Awards® for Costume Design and Art Direction, Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Production Design, and numerous other awards. William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet (on which she was also associate producer) won Martin a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Production Design and an Academy Award Nomination for Best Art Direction. Three years earlier in 1993, Martin made her film debut designing Baz Luhrmann’s hugely successful Strictly Ballroom, for which Martin won Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at both the BAFTA and AFI Awards.

Martin began collaborating with Luhrmann when she was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney and has designed all of Luhrmann’s subsequent productions, including Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Australian Opera for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critic’s Award for Best Opera Design, and Luhrmann’s reworking of Puccini’s La Boheme in 2002, which opened on Broadway to critical acclaim and won Martin the coveted Tony Award for Production Design.

Most recently Martin designed the look of the lavish No.5: The Film global campaign for Chanel starring Nicole Kidman, working with Karl Lagerfeld on costumes. She is currently working on the designs for a print-intensive range of homewares focusing on bed, bath, and tableware for worldwide distribution into mid-up market retailers.  Martin is married to writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann, with whom she has two children, Lillian and William.

Catherine Martin’s Gear List

• Apple G5 dual 2.7GHz processors
• Apple 23" Cinema Display
• Wacom tablet
• Adobe CS3 (primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, and Bridge)

The Design Contest

James Fisher, the on-set photographer, shot amazing images on set. Now they are getting passed to you to design the Australia movie poster. You may use James' images exclusively, incorporate them with some of your original work, or go in a different direction entirely. Remember that the poster needs to have the name of the movie, and should hang in portrait, not landscape, orientation. 

Download James’ images here

You have until midnight Eastern time (9:00 p.m. Pacific) on May 26, 2008, to post your entry to the Apple Student Gallery. Entries will be judged by employees of Apple, 20th Century Fox, and Bazmark Inc.

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