Margot Wilson APDG

Costume & Production Designer

Working across international film and television projects with some of the industry’s most respected filmmakers and numerous nominations and awards to her name, Margot is one of Australia’s most sought-after costume designers.

Margot was costume designer for Terrence Malick’s Oscar-nominated WWII epic, The Thin Red Line (Fox 2000 Pictures, 1998) starring John Cusack, George Clooney, Adrian Brody and James Caviezel.  She production and costume designed the acclaimed feature film Jindabyne (dir. Ray Lawrence/ April Films, 2006) and was costume designer for the multi-award-winning Lantana (dir. Ray Lawrence/ Jan Chapman Productions, 2001), for which she received an AFI Award nomination. Margot’s other credits include Japanese Story (dir. Sue Brooks/ Gecko Films, 2003) starring Toni Collette, La Spagnola (dir. Steve Jacobs/ Wild Starwberries, 2001) for which she was nominated for an AFI Award for costume design, Risk (dir. Alan White/ Macgowan and Beneficiary Films, 2000), Hunt Angels (dir. Alec Morgan/ Palace Films, 2006), and Bran Nue Dae (dir. Rachel Perkins/ Robyn Kershaw Productions, 2009), which earned Margot another AFI nomination.

Margot continues to work with her frequent collaborator, filmmaker John Hillcoat, most recently on the star-studded crime thriller Triple Nine (Anonymous Content, 2016), starring Kate Winslet, Casey Affleck, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her other features with John Hillcoat include The Proposition (Jackie O’ Productions, 2005) starring Guy Pearce, Emily Watson and Ray Winstone, for which she won an AFI Award in 2006; The Road (2929 Productions, 2009) starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce; and Lawless (Red Wagon Productions, 2012) starring Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy and Mia Wasikowska.

Margot costume designed the critically lauded The Daughter (dir. Simon Stone/ Wildflower Films, 2015), and Jocelyn Moorhouse’s hit The Dressmaker (Film Art Media,2015) for which she designed Kate Winslet’s costumes. Margot won an AACTA Award and was nominated for a prestigious CDG Award for her work on the film. Margot was also nominated for an APDG and AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in a Feature Film for her work on Jasper Jones (dir. Rachel Perkins/ Porchlight, 2017). Margot worked with Jennifer Kent on The Nightingale (Causeway Films, 2019) which screened as part of the official selection for the 75th Venice Film Festival and went onto win the Special Jury Prize. The Nightingale was awarded Best Feature Film at the 2019 AACTA Awards and Margot received an AACTA Award nomination in Best Costume Design for her work on the film.

Margot’s other recent credits include Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (dir. Tony Tilse, 2020) for Every Cloud Productions and Rachel Perkin’s mini-series Total Control (2019) for Blackfella Films and ABC which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and took home the AACTA Award for Best Drama Series. Margot also designed visual artist, Del Kathryn Barton’s debut feature film, Blaze (Causeway Films, 2022), and the highly anticipated adaptation of Shantaram for Anonymous Content and Apple TV Plus.

Most recently, Margot was the costume designer on David Michôd’s latest feature Wizards! (SeeSaw Films, Plan B Entertainment and A24), and she costume designed on Rebel Wilson’s feature film The Deb (AI-Films).

For enquiries regarding Margot Wilson please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.