Nancy Haigh Explained

Nancy Haigh
Birth Name:	Nancy Grace Haigh
Alma Mater:	Massachusetts College of Art
Occupation:	Set decorator
Yearsactive:	1983 - present

Nancy Grace Haigh (born 1946)^[1] is an American set decorator who has received nine Academy Award nominations, and won two for her work on the films Bugsy, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Biography

Nancy Haigh graduated in 1968 from Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt) with a BFA degree in ceramics. In 1995, the college honored her with a Distinguished Alumna Award.^[5]

Nancy began her career in film with Francis Ford Coppola's film Rumble Fish in 1983. Since then, Nancy has been the set decorator for numerous movies in collaboration with the Coen brothers.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Awards	Notes
1989	Earth Girls Are Easy	Julien Temple
	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson
	Checking Out	David Leland
1990		Stephen Frears
	Miller's Crossing	Joel Coen
1991	Guilty by Suspicion	Irwin Winkler
	Barton Fink	Joel Coen	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Art Decoration	^[6]
	Bugsy	Barry Levinson	Academy Award for Best Art Decoration
1992	Hero	Stephen Frears
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel & Ethan Coen
	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Art Decoration
1995	Waterworld	Kevin Reynolds
1996	Mars Attacks!	Tim Burton
1998	Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas	Terry Gilliam
		Peter Weir	Nominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Production Design
1999		Michael Mann
2000	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel & Ethan Coen
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Steven Spielberg	Nominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Production Design
2002	Road to Perdition	Sam Mendes	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Art Decoration
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Joel & Ethan Coen
	Big Fish	Tim Burton
2004		Joel & Ethan Coen
2005	Jarhead	Sam Mendes
2006	Ask the Dust	Robert Towne
	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Art Decoration Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design Nominated – Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Production Design
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel & Ethan Coen
	Charlie Wilson's War	Mike Nichols
2008	Burn After Reading	Joel & Ethan Coen
2010	True Grit		Nominated – Academy Award for Best Art Decoration	^[7]
2011	Moneyball	Bennett Miller
2013	Oz the Great and Powerful	Sam Raimi
	August: Osage County	John Wells
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Joel & Ethan Coen	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Production Design
	Café Society	Woody Allen
	Rules Don't Apply	Warren Beatty
	Live by Night	Ben Affleck
2018	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Joel & Ethan Coen
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	Academy Award for Best Production Design
2020		John Krasinski
2021	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Joel Coen	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Production Design
2022	The Gray Man	Anthony & Joe Russo	Post-production

Notes and References

1. Book: Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Randall Publishing Company. 1968. 465. en.
2. Web site: Awards Database . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 2007-10-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090208011732/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp . 2009-02-08 .
3. Web site: The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners . 2011-08-02. oscars.org.
4. Web site: Stewart. Matthew. 2021-04-21. 2021 Oscars: Best Production Design nominees lineup is first with all male production designers and female set decorators. 2021-04-29. GoldDerby. en-US.
5. Web site: Alumni Awards . Massachusetts College of Art and Design . 2007-10-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070919195538/http://www.massart.edu/alumni/awards.html . 2007-09-19 .
6. Book: King, Lynnea Chapman. The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia. 2014-10-10. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8108-8577-6. 5. en.
7. Web site: O'Neil. Tom. 7 Dec 2010. The Envelope, The Picks. subscription. 2021-04-29. Newspapers.com. Los Angeles Times. 51. en.