Norma Moriceau (15 April 1944 – 21 August 2016) was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She was best known for the post-apocalyptic leather-fetish biker warrior costumes she designed for ''

Mad Max 2 ''Mad Max 2'' (released as ''The Road Warrior'' in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. It is the second installment in the ''Mad Max'' franchise, with Mel Gibson reprising his role a ...

'' (1981) and ''

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'' (1985).

Career

Late 1970s and early 1980s

In the late 1970s, Moriceau wrote the screenplay for ''Galaxy's Last Tape'' (1977). Her career in costume design started during this same period, with ''Journey Among Women'' (1977) and ''Newsfront'' (1978). In the early 1980s, Moriceau did costume design for several films with a 'punk'-oriented look, including the Sex Pistols' film ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' (1980),''

'' (1981) (which was released as ''

The Road Warrior ''Mad Max 2'' (released as ''The Road Warrior'' in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. It is the second installment in the ''Mad Max'' franchise, with Mel Gibson reprising his role a ...

'' in the US), and ''

'' (1985). Other films she did costume design on in the early 1980s include the children's "

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" style film ''

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'' (1980), ''

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'' (1980) (also called'' Nuclear Run''), and ''

Nate and Hayes ''Savage Islands'' (also known as ''Nate and Hayes'' in the United States) is a 1983 swashbuckling adventure film set in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and filmed on location in Fiji and New Zealand, it ...

'' (1983) (also called ''Savage Islands'' in the UK). Moriceau has won three

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for the best costume-design, for ''Newsfront'', ''Fatty Finn'' and ''Mad Max 2''.Best Achievement in Costume Design
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Mid-1980s and later

In the mid-1980s, Moriceau did the costume design for the big Australian hit film ''

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'' (1986), and then its sequel ''

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'' (1988). She followed up with action movies and thrillers including ''

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'' (1989), ''

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'' (1989), and ''

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'' (1992). Other 1990s costume design jobs included ''

Wide Sargasso Sea ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel ''Jane Eyre'' (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from t ...

'' (1993),'' No Escape'' (1994), '' The Island of Dr. Moreau'' (1996), and '' Babe: Pig in the City''. In 1998, she did a television project called ''Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny''. In the 2000s, she did costume design for the

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adaptation ''

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'' (2002) and for the film '' Beyond Borders'' (2003).

References

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