1973 McHi Yearbook Photo & 2003 Photo From Wireimage.Com
Catherine Hardwicke, Class of 1973
1973 McHi Yearbook Photo & 2003 Photo From Wireimage.Com
1973 McHi graduate Catherine Hardwicke has been awarded the 2003 Director's Award at the Sundance Film Festival, held January 2003 in Utah. The award was given for Catherine's work in her directorial debut, the movie Thirteen, starring Holly Hunter. To read an online review of the film, click here. Catherine also wrote the screenplay for Thirteen, which opened in August 2003 to excellent reviews.
Catherine has been a production designer and assistant director on many other films. After graduating from McHi in 1973, Catherine earned a degree in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and she returned to South Texas, where she designed and built homes and office buildings. She later attended the prestigious UCLA Graduate School of Film and began her career as a production designer in 1987.
Catherine has also designed a special gazebo structure and sculptures ("La Brea Gateway") in Hollywood at the corner of Hollywood Blvd. & La Brea Ave. The work of art pays homage to legendary women in film. Click here to see a picture of this structure.
Other movies that Catherine has worked on are:
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Laurel Canyon (2002) Vanilla Sky (2001) AntiTrust (2001) Three Kings (1999) Newton Boys, The (1998) Mad City (1997) SubUrbia (1996) 2 Days in the Valley (1996) Tank Girl (1995) |
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) Tombstone (1993) Freaked (1993) Posse (1993) Passed Away (1992) Martians Go Home (1990) Tapeheads (1988) I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) |
Biographical information from http://www.foxmovies.com: CATHERINE HARDWICKE's (Production Designer) numerous films include "Tombstone," "Tank Girl," "Posse," "Two Days in the Valley" and Richard Linklater's "SubUrbia." ....
Hardwicke received a CableACE nomination for Billy Crystal's "Sessions," the Joseph Jefferson Nomination for John Cusack's theater production of "Alagazam," and the Nissan Focus Award and Disney Card Walker Animation Award for her student film "Puppy Does the Gumbo."
A graduate of UCLA, Hardwicke began her career as an architect in South Texas where she designed and built homes, townhouses and office buildings.
Biographical information from http://www.magiclanternpr.com: CATHERINE HARDWICKE (Production Designer) Catherine Hardwicke has worked as a motion picture production designer since 1987.... Harwicke was born in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and has an Architecture degree from the University of Texas in Austin. She was an architect prior to attending the UCLA Graduate School in Film where, among her accomplishments, was an award-winning animated/live action short film.
A special thanks to Ben Mall (bmall@swbell.net)for nominating Catherine for our alumni recognition page.
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