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Ngila Beryl Dickson ONZM (born 1958) is a New Zealand costume designer. She is perhaps best known for her collaboration with Richard Taylor on creating the costumes for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Ngila Dickson was born in 1958 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is a costume designer and actress, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). She is married to Hamish Keith.
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Ngila Dickson (born 1958 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a New Zealand costume designer, known for her work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She and Weta Workshop head Richard Taylor would win Best Costume Design at the 2004 Academy Awards for The Return of the King, and a BAFTA award for
Her designs for primary characters of the films, with commentary, are featured in Gary Russell's guides to the art direction of the films. As the amount of total costumes required was beyond ten thousand, Dickson worked with forty tailors in addition to Sylvana Sacco. Commentary is also found in some of the documentaries in the Extended Edition of the trilogy. Dickson had previously worked with Jackson and Fran Walsh on their 1994 drama film, Heavenly Creatures.
•The Lord of the Rings film trilogy appendices
•Part One: From Book to Vision > Designing and Building Middle-earth
1.Gary Russell, The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring, pgs. 101-108, 110-119
2.Gary Russell, The Art of The Two Towers, pgs. 62, 64-5, 110-111, 130
3.Gary Russell, The Art of The Return of the King, pgs. 154, 210, 212-3
4.https://www.councilofelrond.com/cast-list/dickson-ngila/
Beryl Dickson ONZM (born 1958) is a costume designer from New Zealand. Her most notable work is in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, both of which were filmed in New Zealand, as well as her years of work on Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Ngila Dickson's work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy involved designing and overseeing the making of thousands of costumes, from elven silk dresses to 15 copies of Gandalf's cloak. The result was eight awards, including Oscars and BAFTAs for best costume design (both shared with Richard Taylor ).
Feb 16, 2024 · The project’s costume designer, Ngila Dickson, who has worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings and The Last Samurai, was instantly drawn to the script’s female-driven plot. “I loved the idea that the characters were predominantly women,” says Dickson.
Ngila Dickson is a fifty seven year old New Zealand born costume designer. She has won one Academy Award for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” with another fifteen won awards in her life, such as the BAFTA, Saturn Award, and Costumer’s Guild awards, along with eighteen other nominations. She got her big break into the ...
