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Biography
Odile Dicks-Mireaux is a British costume designer. Her work include productions for both cinema like the Academy Award-nominated films An Education (2009) and Brooklyn (2015) and television like the BBC One drama The Lost Prince and the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), receiving an Emmy Award for the former and a BAFTA Craft Award for the latter.
Career
Dicks-Mireaux studied theatre design at the Central School of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. After leaving college she worked in fringe theatre with companies such as Pip Simmons and Belt and Braces.
In 1979, she joined BBC as an assistant, becoming a designer in 1982 working in several television productions from the network including eight episodes from the nineteenth season of the science fiction television series Doctor Who in 1982, the sitcom The Black Adder (1983), the miniseries Oscar (1985) and Melissa (1997) and the two-part series The Woman in White, receiving her first BAFTA nomination for Best Costume Design for the latter in 1998, she was nominated for the award again in 2000 and 2001 for Great Expectations and Gormenghast, respectively, winning for the former.
In 1996, she left BBC and went on to work in different feature films like Stephen Frears's thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Fernando Meirelles's drama thriller The Constant Gardener (2005), Lone Scherfig's coming-of-age drama An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design and Dustin Hoffman's comedy-drama Quartet (2012).
She has also worked on television series such as BBC One's drama The Lost Prince, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special alongside Colin May in 2005, NBC's action drama The Philanthropist and the episode Richard II from BBC Two's The Hollow Crown in 2012 receiving her fourth BAFTA Craft Award nomination.
In 2015, she worked in John Crowley's romantic period drama Brooklyn, receiving several nominations, including for a BAFTA Film Award, a Critics' Choice Award and a Costume Designers Guild Award. In 2019, she worked on the HBO's historical miniseries Chernobyl about the disaster of the same name, for the costumes of the limited series she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes alongside Daiva Petrulyte, Holly McLean, Anna Munro and Sylvie Org and won her second BAFTA Television Craft Award.
Dicks-Mireaux also appear in Edgar Wright's upcoming psychological horror film Last Night in Soho and Tom George's upcoming mystery film See How They Run.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Captives | Angela Pope | ||
| 2001 | Buffalo Soldiers | Gregor Jordan | ||
| Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) | Stewart Sugg | |||
| 2002 | Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | ||
| 2004 | If Only | Gil Junger | ||
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | ||
| 2006 | Like Minds | Gregory J. Read | ||
| 2008 | Dean Spanley | Toa Fraser | ||
| 10,000 BC | Roland Emmerich | |||
| The Bank Job | Roger Donaldson | |||
| 2009 | An Education | Lone Scherfig | ||
| 2010 | London Boulevard | Ken Bruen | ||
| 2011 | One Day | Lone Scherfig | ||
| 2012 | Bel Ami | Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod | ||
| Quartet | Dustin Hoffman | |||
| 2014 | A Long Way Down | Pascal Chaumeil | ||
| 2015 | High-Rise | Ben Wheatley | ||
| Brooklyn | John Crowley | |||
| 2016 | Denial | Mick Jackson | ||
| 2017 | Goodbye Christopher Robin | Simon Curtis | ||
| Disobedience | Sebastián Lelio | |||
| The Sense of an Ending | Ritesh Batra | |||
| 2021 | Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | ||
| 2022 | See How They Run | Tom George | ||
| The Wonder | Sebastián Lelio |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Doctor Who | Episodes: "The Visitation" (four parts), "Castrovalva" (four parts) |
| 1982-1984 | Top of the Pops | Episodes: S19E13 to S19E24 |
| 1983 | Grange Hill | Episodes: "New Faces", "On Trial", "Publication", "Rally" |
| The Black Adder | Episodes: "The Foretelling", "Born to Be King", "The Archbishop", "The Queen of Spain's Beard", "Witchsmeller Pursuivant", "The Black Seal" | |
| 1984 | Sharing Time | Episodes: "For Business Reasons", "High Hopes", "Oceans Apart" |
| 1985 | Oscar | Episodes: "De Profundis", "Trials", "Gilded Youth" |
| 1986 | The Happy Valley | TV movie |
| 1986-1993 | Screen Two | Episodes: "The Silent Twins", "Sweet as You Are", "My Sister-Wife", "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" |
| 1988 | Theatre Night | Episode: "The Miser" |
| 1997 | Melissa | Five episodes |
| The Woman in White | ||
| 1998 | A Certain Justice | |
| 1999 | Great Expectations | TV movie |
| 2000 | Cor, Blimey! | |
| Gormenghast | Three episodes | |
| 2003 | The Deal | TV movie |
| The Lost Prince | ||
| 2009 | The Philanthropist | Episodes: "Pilot", "Paris", "Kosovo" |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Episode: "Richard II" |
| 2019 | Chernobyl | Five episodes |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | British Academy Television Awards | Best Costume Design | The Woman in White | Nominated | |
| 2000 | British Academy Television Craft Awards | Best Costume Design | Great Expectations | Won | |
| Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards | Costume Design - Drama | Gormenghast | Nominated | ||
| 2001 | British Academy Television Craft Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards | Costume Design - Drama | The Lost Prince | Won | |
| 2005 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special | Won | ||
| 2009 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Costume Design | An Education | Nominated | |
| Qantas Film and Television Awards | Best Costume Design in a Feature Film | Dean Spanley | Won | ||
| 2013 | British Academy Television Craft Awards | Best Costume Design | Richard II (The Hollow Crown) | Nominated | |
| 2015 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Costume Design | Brooklyn | Nominated | |
| Critics' Choice Awards | Best Costume Design | Nominated | |||
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | Excellence in Period Film | Nominated | |||
| 2019 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Period Costumes | Chernobyl | Nominated | |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | Excellence in Period Television | Nominated | |||
| Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards | Costume Design - Drama | Won | |||
| 2020 | British Academy Television Craft Awards | Best Costume Design | Won |