Jacqueline West

This article is about the costume designer. For the author, see Jacqueline West (author).

Jacqueline West is an American fashion and costume designer. In a career spanning over three decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across small-scale productions as well as blockbusters. Her work appears in such acclaimed films as Quills (2000), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), Argo (2012), The Revenant (2015), Dune (2021), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times.

Career

West began her career as a fashion designer in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she owned a boutique on Gilman Street in West Berkeley. There she created and sold her eponymous "Identikit by Jacqueline West" line.^[1]

West ventured into film costume design in the 1990s after being persuaded to do so by Philip Kaufman. She first worked for the director as a creative consultant on Henry & June (1990).^[1] Their professional relationship continued on the films Rising Sun (1993) and Quills (2000); for creating costumes in the latter, she garnered her first Academy Award nomination.^[1] West stated that Kaufman, who shaped her approach to dressing actors, was among the major influences on her career; the other was her mother, an avant-garde fashion designer of the 1940s and 1950s.^[2] 

West worked with director David Fincher on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which turned out to be a difficult task for her due to its epic scope and the need to maintain the integrity of each character's garments in a story that takes place through almost 100 years of different clothing styles and fashions.^[2] Another challenge was making Benjamin (Brad Pitt) look both old and young at the beginning of the film and young and old at the film's end.^[3] West later said that Pitt called her a method costumer for those approaches.^[2]

West and the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising established The Jacqueline West Scholarship for “an outstanding Native American interested in the study of fashion or costume design.”^[4]

Personal Life

West is a member of the LGBT community.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1990	Henry & June	Philip Kaufman	Creative consultant only
1993	Rising Sun
2000	Quills
	Just One Night	Alan Jacobs
2002	The Banger Sisters	Bob Dolman
	Leo	Mehdi Norowzian
	American Gun	Alan Jacobs	Costume consultant only
2003	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Stephen Norrington
2005	Down in the Valley	David Jacobson
	The New World	Terrence Malick
2006	Lonely Hearts	Todd Robinson
2007	The Invasion	Oliver Hirschbiegel James McTeigue
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
2009	State of Play	Kevin Macdonald
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
2011	Water for Elephants	Francis Lawrence
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2012	Argo	Ben Affleck
	To the Wonder	Terrence Malick
2014	The Gambler	Rupert Wyatt
	Seventh Son	Sergei Bodrov
2015	Knight of Cups	Terrence Malick
	The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016	Live by Night	Ben Affleck
2017	Song to Song	Terrence Malick
	Flesh and Sand	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Short film
2021	Dune	Denis Villeneuve	Co-designed with Bob Morgan
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
2024	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve

Awards and nominations

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Best Costume Design	Quills	Nominated	[6]
2008		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	[7]
2015		The Revenant	Nominated	[8]
2021		Dune	Nominated	[9]
2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[10]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
2000	Best Costume Design	Quills	Nominated	[11]
2008		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	[12]
2021		Dune	Nominated	[13]
2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[14]

Miscellaneous awards

List of Jacqueline West other awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
Astra Creative Arts Film Awards[lower-alpha 1]	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Nominated	[15]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[16]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Nominated	[17]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[18]
Costume Designers Guild Awards	2000	Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film	Quills	Nominated	[19]
	2008	Excellence in Period Film	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	[20]
	2010	Excellence in Contemporary Film	The Social Network	Nominated	[21]
	2012	Excellence in Period Film	Argo	Nominated	[22]
	2021	Excellence in Fantasy Film	Dune	Won	[23]
	2023	Excellence in Period Film	Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[24]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Nominated	[25]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[26]
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Won	[27]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[28]
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Nominated	[29]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[30]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival	2016	Variety Artisans Award (costume design)	The Revenant	Won	[31]
	2022		Dune	Won	[32]
Satellite Awards	2008	Best Costume Design	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Nominated	[33]
	2011		Water for Elephants	Won	[34]
	2021		Dune	Nominated	[35]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[36]
Saturn Awards	2003	Best Costume Design	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Nominated	[37]
	2022		Dune	Nominated	[38]
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards	2015	Best Costume Design	The Revenant	Nominated	[39]
	2021		Dune	Nominated	[40]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[41]
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards	2021	Best Costume Design	Dune	Nominated	[42]
	2023		Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[43]

Notes

1. formerly known as "Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards" and "Hollywood Critics Association Awards"

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External links

• Jacqueline West at IMDb