The National Film School (IADT) welcomes Consolata Boyle as their next speaker in their Lecture Series, presented in association with the Irish Film Board.
Consolata Boyle trained as a designer (set and costumes) at the Abbey Theatre, but is best known as a costume designer for film and television.
Credits include Into the West; The Winslow Boy, directed by David Mamet; Angela’s Ashes, directed by Alan Parker; The Lion in Winter (HBO), for which she received a Primetime Emmy® Award; The Iron Lady (with Meryl Streep); Neil Jordan’s Byzantium; Miss Julie (with Jessica Chastain); and Testament of Youth (with Alicia Vikander).
She has worked eight times with Stephen Frears, including The Snapper; The Queen (with Helen Mirren), for which she won a Costume Designers Guild Award plus Oscar® and BAFTA nominations; Chéri; Philomena (her third CDG nomination); and Florence Foster Jenkins (again with Meryl Streep), currently in post-production.
Consolata has won IFTA Awards for The Queen (2006), Cheri (2010), The Iron lady (2012) and Philomena (2014); she also received IFTA nominations for Tamara Drewe (2010) and Miss Julie (2014).
The talk will be held on campus on Thursday 21 January 2016.
