---
name: "Lizzy Gardiner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lizzy-gardiner"
fi1m_id: "lizzy-gardiner"
imdb_id: "nm0306773"
tmdb_id: 15329
wikidata_id: "Q512041"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "24 October 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-19T12:27:52.285997+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lizzy Gardiner

## Identity

Lizzy Gardiner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lizzy-gardiner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lizzy-gardiner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0306773
- **TMDB ID:** 15329
- **Wikidata ID:** Q512041
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Gardiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512041, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306773/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15329

Costume designer. Born 24 October 1966 in Dubbo.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 24 October 1966, Dubbo
- **Active:** 1994–2016
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (2), 2000s 55 (1), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 67 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $758m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Gardiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512041, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306773/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15329

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*](https://film.one/film/the-adventures-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert.md) (81), [*Hacksaw Ridge*](https://film.one/film/hacksaw-ridge.md) (77)
- **Paramount+:** [*Mission: Impossible II*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-ii.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lizzy Gardiner is an Australian costume designer. Born in Dubbo, New South Wales, she studied fashion and costume design at the Accademia Italiana in Florence before returning to Australia to work in film and television. She began collaborating with Tim Chappel while working on the soap opera *E Street*.

Gardiner and Chappel designed the costumes for the 1994 film *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*. Their work won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1995, as well as BAFTA and Australian Film Institute awards. Gardiner wore a dress made of 254 American Express gold cards to the Oscars ceremony. She has since worked on films including *Mission: Impossible II* (2000), *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016) and *Peter Rabbit* (2018).

Gardiner and Chappel also designed costumes for the stage musical adaptation of *Priscilla Queen of the Desert*, winning a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical in 2011.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016), Fi1m 77, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/hacksaw-ridge.md)
- *Mission: Impossible II* (2000), Fi1m 55, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-ii.md)
- *Bound* (1996), Fi1m 80, Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/bound.md)
- *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* (1994), Fi1m 81, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-adventures-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ticket to Paradise* (2022), Costume Designer
- *The King's Daughter* (2022), Costume Designer
- *Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway* (2021), Costume Design
- *Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan* (2019), Costume Designer
- *Peter Rabbit* (2018), Costume Design
- *Swinging Safari* (2018), Costume Design
- *2:22* (2017), Costume Designer
- *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016), Costume Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/hacksaw-ridge.md)
- *Some Kind of Beautiful* (2014), Costume Designer
- *The Railway Man* (2013), Costume Design
- *A Few Best Men* (2012), Costume Design
- *Burning Man* (2011), Costume Design
- *The Ruins* (2008), Costume Design
- *Ghost Rider* (2007), Costume Design
- *The Great Raid* (2005), Costume Design
- *Stealth* (2005), Costume Design
- *Killing Priscilla* (2000), Director
- *Mission: Impossible II* (2000), Costume Design — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-ii.md)
- *Eye of the Beholder* (1999), Costume Design
- *Woundings* (1998), Costume Design
- *Welcome to Woop Woop* (1998), Costume Design
- *Gone Fishin'* (1997), Costume Design
- *Bound* (1996), Costume Designer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/bound.md)
- *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* (1994), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-adventures-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert.md)
- *Weekend with Kate* (1990), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *E Street* (1989), series, Story
- *Play Dead*, Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1995: Best Costume Design (won), for *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical 2011: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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