François Barbeau (July 27, 1935 – January 28, 2016) was an award-winning Canadian

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...

. He was a professor at the

National Theatre School of Canada The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS, ) is a private institution of professional theatre studies in Montreal, Quebec. Established in 1960, the NTS receives its principal funding from grants awarded by the Government of Canada and cultural ...

and the

Université du Québec à Montréal The (UQAM; ), is a French language, French-language public university, public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the system. UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...

who worked on over 700 productions in Quebec and around the world. After taking sewing in high school, he began his career in the 1950s at the theatre The Caravan of Paul Buissonneau. He afterwards worked as a designer at the

Théâtre du Rideau Vert The Théâtre du Rideau Vert is a theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 4664 Saint Denis Street in the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. Founded in 1949 by Yvette Brind'Amour and Mercedes Palomino, the Théâtre du Rideau Vert wa ...

. Among the films he worked on are ''

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'' (1992), for which he won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design, and ''

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'' (2012), sharing the Genie with

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. In film, Barbeau mentored fellow-costume designer and Genie winner Louise Jobin. In 1996, he received the

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, and in 2000 he joined the

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. He died on January 28, 2016. Dolan's 2016 film ''

It's Only the End of the World ''It's Only the End of the World'' () is a 2016 drama film written, directed and edited by Xavier Dolan. The film is based on the 1990 play by Jean-Luc Lagarce and stars Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, and Vincen ...

'' is dedicated to him.

References

1935 births 2016 deaths Canadian costume designers Best Costume Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Governor General's Award winners Members of the Order of Canada Academic staff of the National Theatre School of Canada Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal Best Art Direction/Production Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners {{Canada-film-bio-stub