‘And to Baz ... you’ve taught me to live the dream, that anything is possible’ — List of Oscar nominations and wins for Catherine Martin, only woman to twice win multiple Oscars in a single year
Posted: June 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Catherine Martin. Catherine Martin has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards, across multiple categories, and won 4. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database
2022: Elvis (Best Picture) (shared with Baz Luhrmann, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss) — lost to Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang). Other nominees: Top Gun: Maverick (Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, Jerry Bruckheimer), Triangle of Sadness (Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober), Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, Jon Landau),
The Banshees of Inisherin (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh), Women Talking (Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Frances McDormand),
The Fabelmans (Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner), Tár (Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert), All Quiet on the Western Front (Malte Grunert)
2022: Elvis (Best Costume Design) — lost to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ruth E. Carter). Other nominees: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Jenny Beavan), Babylon (Mary Zophres), Everything Everywhere All at Once (Shirley Kurata)
2022: Elvis (Best Production Design) (shared with Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn) — lost to All Quiet on the Western Front (Christian M. Goldbeck, Ernestine Hipper). Other nominees: Babylon (Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino), The Fabelmans (Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara), Avatar: The Way of Water (Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole)
WON: 2013 The Great Gatsby (Best Costume Design) — Other nominees: American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson), 12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris), The Grandmaster (William Chang), The Invisible Woman (Michael O’Connor)
WON: 2013: The Great Gatsby (Best Production Design) (shared with Beverley Dunn) — Other nominees: 12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker), American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler), Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard), Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
Baz Luhrman watches his wife, Catherine Martin, accept an Oscar
for Art Direction at the 2002 Academy Awards
2008: Australia (Best Costume Design) — lost to The Duchess (Michael O’Connor). Other nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Jacqueline West), Milk (Danny Glicker), Revolutionary Road (Albert Wolsky)
WON: 2001: Moulin Rouge! (Best Costume Design) (shared with Angus Strathie) — Other nominees: Gosford Park (Jenny Beavan), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor), The Affair of the Necklace (Milena Canonero), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Judianna Makovsky)
WON: 2001: Moulin Rouge! (Best Art Direction-Set Decoration) (shared with Brigitte Broch) — Other nominees: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Grant Major, Dan Hennah), Gosford Park (Stephen Altman, Anna Pinnock), Amélie (Aline Bonetto, Marie-Laure Valla), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan)
1996: Romeo + Juliet (Best Art Direction-Set Decoration) (shared with Brigitte Broch) — lost to The English Patient (Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan). Other nominees: Hamlet (Tim Harvey), The Birdcage (Bo Welch, Cheryl Carasik), Evita (Brian Morris, Philippe Turlure)