# Jacqueline West

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), its sequel Dune: Part Two (2024), 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.
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). 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. 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.
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. 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. West later said that Pitt called her a method costumer for those approaches.
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.”

## Personal life

West is a member of the LGBT community.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1990 | Henry & June | Philip Kaufman | Creative consultant only |
| 1993 | Rising Sun | Philip Kaufman | |
| 2000 | Quills | Philip Kaufman | |
| 2000 | Just One Night | Alan Jacobs | |
| 2002 | The Banger Sisters | Bob Dolman | |
| 2002 | Leo | Mehdi Norowzian | |
| 2002 | American Gun | Alan Jacobs | Costume consultant only |
| 2003 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Stephen Norrington | |
| 2005 | Down in the Valley | David Jacobson | |
| 2005 | 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 | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | |
| 2012 | Argo | Ben Affleck | |
| 2012 | To the Wonder | Terrence Malick | |
| 2014 | The Gambler | Rupert Wyatt | |
| 2014 | Seventh Son | Sergei Bodrov | |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Terrence Malick | |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | |
| 2016 | Live by Night | Ben Affleck | |
| 2017 | Song to Song | Terrence Malick | |
| 2017 | Flesh and Sand | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Short film |
| 2021 | Dune | Denis Villeneuve | with Bob Morgan aka Dune: Part One |
| 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 |
| 2000 | Best Costume Design | Quills | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Costume Design | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Costume Design | The Revenant | Nominated |
| 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 2000 | Best Costume Design | Quills | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Costume Design | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated |
| 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |

### Miscellaneous awards

List of Jacqueline West other awards and nominations :
| Award | Year | Category | Title | Result |
| Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2000 | Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film | Quills | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2008 | Excellence in Period Film | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2010 | Excellence in Contemporary Film | The Social Network | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2012 | Excellence in Period Film | Argo | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2021 | Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film | Dune | Won |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2023 | Excellence in Period Film | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Costume Designers Guild Awards | 2024 | Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Won |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2016 | Variety Artisans Award (costume design) | The Revenant | Won |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2022 | Variety Artisans Award (costume design) | Dune | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2008 | Best Costume Design | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2011 | Best Costume Design | Water for Elephants | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2003 | Best Costume Design | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2021/22 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2023/24 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2015 | Best Costume Design | The Revenant | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| Seattle Film Critics Society Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards | 2021 | Best Costume Design | Dune | Nominated |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards | 2023 | Best Costume Design | Killers of the Flower Moon | Nominated |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards | 2024 | Best Costume Design | Dune: Part Two | Nominated |