Yvonne Ann Blake (17 April 1940 – 17 July 2018) was a British-Spanish

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 costume ...

. She won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film ''

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'' along with Antonio Castillo. She won four

Goya Award The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sci ...

s and was nominated for

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s and the Emmy Awards as well. On 14 July 2016 she took the Presidency of the

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. On 9 June 2018

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replaced her in the Presidency due to her

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. Blake died in

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on 17 July 2018 at age 78 from complications from a stroke.

Accolades

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Goya Awards

Honours

* Gold Medal of Merit in Labour (Kingdom of Spain, 14 November 2011). * National Cinematography Prize (Kingdom of Spain, 17 September 2012).

References

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* 1940 births 2018 deaths British costume designers Women costume designers Best Costume Design Academy Award winners Goya Award winners Designers from Greater Manchester English emigrants to Spain {{UK-film-bio-stub