Norma Moriceau
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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'' (1981) and ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (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),'' Mad Max 2'' (1981) (which was released as ''The Road Warrior'' in the US), and ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985). Other films she did costume design on in the early 1980s include the children's "Little Rascals" style film ''Fatty Finn (film), Fatty Finn'' (1980), ''The Chain Reaction'' (1980) (also called'' Nuclear Run''), and ''Nate and Hayes'' (1983) (also called ''Savage Islands'' in the UK). Moriceau has won three Australian Film Institute Awards 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 ''Crocodile Dundee'' (1986), and then its sequel ''Crocodile Dundee II'' (1988). She followed up with action movies and thrillers including ''Dead Calm (film), Dead Calm'' (1989), ''The Punisher (1989 film), The Punisher'' (1989), and ''Patriot Games (film), Patriot Games'' (1992). Other 1990s costume design jobs included ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' (1993),'' No Escape (1994 film), 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 Graham Greene adaptation ''The Quiet American (2002 film), The Quiet American'' (2002) and for the film ''Beyond Borders (film), Beyond Borders'' (2003).


References

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