Patricia Norris is an award-winning costume designer and production designer, who has worked on many significant American films.
Norris's first credit as costume designer was for The Late Liz (1971). She went on to design costumes for several iconic films of the 1970s and 80s, including Capricorn One (1977), Days of Heaven (1978), Victor Victoria (1982) and Scarface (1983).
In 1980, she designed the costumes for The Elephant Man, the first of many collaborations with director David Lynch. For her next project with Lynch, Blue Velvet, she received her first credit as production designer, taking responsibility for the entirety of the film's decor, not just the costumes.
Norris continued to work on all of Lynch's films, up to The Straight Story (1999).
Norris has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Costume Design, for Days of Heaven, The Elephant Man, Victor Victoria, 2010, and Sunset. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series for the pilot episode of Twin Peaks.
In 2010, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Art Directors Guild.[1]