Jacqueline West has earned Academy Award nominations
for her work on Killers of the Flower Moon, Dune, The Revenant, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Quills. For Killers of
the Flower Moon, Dune and Benjamin Button, she also received
BAFTA and Costume Designer Guild Award nominations, winning the Costume
Designer Guild Award for Sci-Fi/Fantasy for Dune. West received another
Costume Designer Guild Award nomination for Argo.
After graduating from the University of California at
Berkeley, West followed in the footsteps of her mother, a popular avant-garde
fashion designer in the 1940’s and 50’s. From 1988 to 1997, West ran her own
company and designed a nationally acclaimed line of clothing. West went on to
own retail stores in the Bay Area and contemporary departments in Barney’s New
York and Tokyo.
West’s first foray into film, as a creative consultant
on Henry and June, was the start of a long relationship with
award-winning director Phillip Kaufman. This led to future projects with such
illustrious filmmakers as Terrence Malick, David Fincher, Alejandro González
Iñárritu, Ben Affleck, Denis Villeneuve, and Martin Scorsese. She has done five
films with Malick starting with The New World and including The Tree
of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, and Weightless.
She also designed Live By Night for Ben Affleck, The Gambler for
Rupert Wyatt, Water for Elephants for Francis Lawrence, The Social
Network for David Fincher, and State of Play for Kevin MacDonald
amongst others. West’s most recent credit is the upcoming Dune: Part II for director Denis Villeneuve. West serves on the Advisory Board of the Fashion
Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, and spends her time among
Los Angeles, her ranch in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Aix en Provence, France.
