Elizabeth Haffenden

Elizabeth Haffenden
Born	(1906-04-18)18 April 1906 Croydon, Surrey, England
Died	29 May 1976(1976-05-29) (aged 70) London, England
Occupation	Costume designer
Years active	1934–1975

Elizabeth Haffenden (18 April 1906 – 29 May 1976) was a British costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across stage and screen. She is perhaps best known for creating the costumes for most of the Gainsborough melodramas. Haffenden has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twice, for Ben-Hur (1959) and A Man for All Seasons (1966), winning both times.

Selected filmography

The Last Waltz (1936)
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
The Man in Grey (1943)
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
Give Us the Moon (1944)
Two Thousand Women (1944)
Love Story (1944)
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
A Place of One's Own (1945)
I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
Caravan (1946)
Bedelia (1946)
The Magic Bow (1946)
The Man Within (1947)
Jassy (1947)
Uncle Silas (1947)
The First Gentleman (1948)
The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
Christopher Columbus (1949)
Call of the Blood (1949)
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Sundowners (1960)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1959	Best Costume Design – Color	Ben-Hur	Won	^[1]
1966	Best Costume Design – Color	A Man for All Seasons	Won	^[2]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1965	Best British Costume Design – Colour	The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	Nominated	^[3]
1967		A Man for All Seasons	Won	^[4]
1967		Half a Sixpence	Nominated	^[4]

References

^ "32nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
^ "39th Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
^ "19th BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
^ "21st BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 4 February 2023.

External links

Elizabeth Haffenden at IMDb

Awards for Elizabeth Haffenden

v t e Academy Award for Best Costume Design
1948–1956	1948 (Black and white): Roger K. Furse / (Color): Dorothy Jeakins and Barbara Karinska 1949 (bw): Edith Head and Gile Steele / (c): Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes and William Travilla 1950 (bw): Edith Head, Charles LeMaire / (c): Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling 1951 (bw): Edith Head /(c): Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff 1952 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Marcel Vertès 1953 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago 1954 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Sanzo Wada 1955 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Charles LeMaire 1956 (bw): Jean Louis / (c): Irene Sharaff
1957–1958	1957: Orry-Kelly 1958: Cecil Beaton
1959–1960	1959 (bw): Orry-Kelly / (c): Elizabeth Haffenden 1960 (bw): Edith Head and Edward Stevenson / (c): Bill Thomas and Arlington Valles
1961–1966	1961 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Irene Sharaff 1962 (bw): Norma Koch / (c): Mary Wills 1963 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Renié, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Irene Sharaff 1964 (bw): Dorothy Jeakins / (c): Cecil Beaton 1965 (bw): Julie Harris / (c): Phyllis Dalton 1966 (bw): Irene Sharaff / (c): Joan Bridge and Elizabeth Haffenden
1967–1980	1967: John Truscott 1968: Danilo Donati 1969: Margaret Furse 1970: Vittorio Nino Novarese 1971: Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo 1972: Anthony Powell 1973: Edith Head 1974: Theoni V. Aldredge 1975: Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund 1976: Danilo Donati 1977: John Mollo 1978: Anthony Powell 1979: Albert Wolsky 1980: Anthony Powell
1981–2000	1981: Milena Canonero 1982: Bhanu Athaiya and John Mollo 1983: Marik Vos-Lundh 1984: Theodor Pištěk 1985: Emi Wada 1986: Jenny Beavan and John Bright 1987: James Acheson 1988: James Acheson 1989: Phyllis Dalton 1990: Franca Squarciapino 1991: Albert Wolsky 1992: Eiko Ishioka 1993: Gabriella Pescucci 1994: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner 1995: James Acheson 1996: Ann Roth 1997: Deborah Lynn Scott 1998: Sandy Powell 1999: Lindy Hemming 2000: Janty Yates
2001–2020	2001: Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie 2002: Colleen Atwood 2003: Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor 2004: Sandy Powell 2005: Colleen Atwood 2006: Milena Canonero 2007: Alexandra Byrne 2008: Michael O'Connor 2009: Sandy Powell 2010: Colleen Atwood 2011: Mark Bridges 2012: Jacqueline Durran 2013: Catherine Martin 2014: Milena Canonero 2015: Jenny Beavan 2016: Colleen Atwood 2017: Mark Bridges 2018: Ruth E. Carter 2019: Jacqueline Durran 2020: Ann Roth
2021–present	2021: Jenny Beavan 2022: Ruth E. Carter 2023: Holly Waddington
Black and White / Color separate (1948–1956, 1959–1966)

BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design

1964–1967

Black and White	Motley (1964) No Award (1965) No Award (1966) Jocelyn Rickards (1967)
Colour	Margaret Furse (1964) Osbert Lancaster and Dinah Greet (1965) Julie Harris (1966) Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge (1967)