# Linda Muir

Linda Muir is a Canadian costume designer. She is best known for her frequent collaborations with director Robert Eggers. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for the film Nosferatu (2024).
Muir has received four nominations for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design and has won twice for Exotica (1994) and Lilies (1996). She faced a formidable challenge while working on the latter film, not the least in designing a very excellent ballroom gown for male actor Rémy Girard. Muir said that her approach was "not to dress men in women's clothing but to build [female] costumes for men's bodies."
Muir joined the crew for Robert Eggers' feature film The Witch in December 2013. During the preproduction period, she conducted exhaustive research, which included consulting 35 books from the Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England series provided by Eggers, as well as other books and images on 17th-century fashion. She had also examined photographs of original garments in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fashion Museum, Bath, that she took back in 1984. Muir created authentic-looking film wardrobes made of wool, linen, or hemp for an ensemble of nine principal characters. Operating on a limited budget, she pushed for an increase in order to better meet the screenplay's demands, and the director’s vision was realized.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1989 | Cold Comfort | Vic Sarin | |
| 1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard | |
| 1994 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | |
| 1995 | When Night Is Falling | Patricia Rozema | |
| 1996 | Long Day's Journey into Night | David Wellington | |
| 1996 | Lilies | John Greyson | |
| 1997 | The Assistant | Daniel Petrie | |
| 1998 | Dog Park | Bruce McCulloch | |
| 1999 | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | George Bloomfield | |
| 2000 | Three Stories from the End of Everything | Semi Chellas | Short film |
| 2000 | The Perfect Son | Leonard Farlinger | |
| 2003 | Foolproof | William Phillips | |
| 2007 | All Hat | Leonard Farlinger | |
| 2011 | Mulroney: The Opera | Larry Weinstein | |
| 2012 | The Secret Disco Revolution | Jamie Kastner | Documentary |
| 2015 | The Witch | Robert Eggers | aka The Witch: A New-England Folktale |
| 2016 | Rupture | Steven Shainberg | |
| 2019 | The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | |
| 2019 | Random Acts of Violence | Jay Baruchel | |
| 2022 | The Northman | Robert Eggers | |
| 2024 | Nosferatu | Robert Eggers | |

## Awards and nominations

| Award | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Academy Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| British Academy Film Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2022 | Best Costume Design | The Northman | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2024 | Excellence in Period Film | Nosferatu | Won |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Dora Mavor Moore Awards | 1982 | Best Costume Design | Tamara | Won |
| Dora Mavor Moore Awards | 1992 | Best Costume Design | Jump | Won |
| Gemini Awards | 2002 | Best Costume Design | Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story | Nominated |
| Genie Awards | 1994 | Best Costume Design | Exotica | Won |
| Genie Awards | 1995 | Best Costume Design | When Night Is Falling | Nominated |
| Genie Awards | 1996 | Best Costume Design | Lilies | Won |
| Genie Awards | 1999 | Best Costume Design | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Nominated |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2016 | Best Costume Design | The Witch | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2022 | Best Costume Design | The Northman | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Nominated |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Nosferatu | Runner-up |