Renée April

Renée April worked with director Denis Villeneuve on Sicario starring Amy Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro and Victor Garber. She also designed the costumes for Villeneuve's films Prisoners and Enemy. She teams up again with Villeneuve on the upcoming Untitled Blade Runner Project.

April designed the wardrobes for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief and the 2006 blockbuster comedy Night at the Museum. Prior to that she earned a Costume Designer's Guild Award nomination for her wardrobe in Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain.

Throughout her career encompassing four dozen credits as designer and costumer, April has collaborated with directors as diverse as Edward Zwick on Pawn Sacrifice, Roland Emmerich on 10,000 B.C. and The Day After Tomorrow, George Clooney on Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Alan Rudolph on The Moderns and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Norman Jewison on Agnes of God, Bruce Beresford on Black Robe (for which she received an Australian Film Institute nomination for costume design), Randa Haines on Children of a Lesser God, David Mamet on Heist, Billy Ray on Shattered Glass, Sir Richard Attenborough on Grey Owl, and Vincent Ward on Map of the Human Heart.

April also designed the wardrobes for Marcus Nispel's Pathfinder, Fernando Meirelles' Cannes Palme d'Or nominee Blindness, Bill Paxton's period sports drama The Greatest Game Ever Played, Chazz Palminteri's fantasy Noel, Keith Gordon's thriller Waking the Dead, The Education of Little Tree, and the award-winning telefilm Million Dollar Babies, the true story of a 1930s Canadian woman who gives birth to quintuplets, for which April shared a Gemini Award (Canadian television awards) for Best Costumes. She has won additional Gemini Awards for her designs for the TV series Tales from the Neverending Story and the TV movie The Hound of the Baskervilles. She was also nominated for her work on Revenge of the Land.

April is a native of Montreal. In addition to her Gemini Awards, he work in her native country has garnered her three Canadian Screen Awards for The Red Violin, the aforementioned Grey Owl, and The Bay Boy. She earned two additional Canadian Screen Award nominations for Pen Densham's The Kiss and Beresford's Black Robe.

In addition to her work in film and television, April designed the wardrobe for Cirque du Soleil's final show in Japan.

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