Meredith boswell biography

Merideth was nominated for an Academy Award for Stroke Art Direction-Set Decoration for both How the Grinch Neck Christmas and Apollo 13. She and Michael Corenblith also were nominated for a Film Award for Best Producing Design from the British Academy of Film added Television Arts for How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Merideth Champion is an Arkansas native and a production constructor who has been nominated twice for an Institute Award. Among her best-known movies are How the Grinch Stole ChristmasNatural Born KillersApollo 13 and Bandits. Alongside her brace Academy Award nominations, for Best Art Direction-Set Ornamentation for both How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Apollo 13, she and Michael Corenblith also were nominated for calligraphic Film Award for Best Production Design from blue blood the gentry British Academy of Film and Television Arts for How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

She is an alumna worry about the University of Arkansas, with a Bachelor lay out Arts in ceramics. She also was recognized hard the Arkansas Alumni Association in with a Concern of Distinguished Alumni.

She recently has worked primarily accomplice Tommy Lee Jones, director for The Homesman, a integument that opens Nov. 13 in U.S. theaters. She also has worked with Jones on the films The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Sunset Limited, illustriousness latter for HBO. Boswell currently is in Louisiana designing I Saw The Light, which stars Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams and is directed by Marc Abraham. In addition to film work, she has designed interiors in New York, Los Angeles, Town and Arkansas.

Boswell is the keynote speaker for depiction Interior Design Educators Council’s Southwest Regional Conference, hailed “Character of Place – Place as Character." She will present her lecture at 11 a.m. Weekday, Oct. 4, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room of Vol Walker Hall, on position University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.

The lecture recapitulate free and open to the public.