{{short description|British production designer}} {{for|the New Zealand pioneer|Sarah Greenwood (artist)}} {{multiple issues|{{Unreliable sources|date=October 2023}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2023}}}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Sarah Greenwood | occupation = [[Production designer]] }} '''Sarah Greenwood''' (born March 1960) is a British production designer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/wimbledon-college-of-arts/stories/a-world-of-its-own-production-designer-sarah-greenwood-talks-barbie-wimbledon-and-her-career|title=A world of its own! Production designer Sarah Greenwood talks Barbie, Wimbledon and her career|website=arts.ac.uk|access-date=2024-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/122294-barbie-production-design/|title="I Think We Sampled 100 Pinks": Production Designer Sarah Greenwood and Set Decorator Katie Spencer on Barbie|website=filmmakermagazine.com|access-date=2024-01-01}}</ref>
She is known for her work on ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]'' (2007), ''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' (2012), and ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' (2023).
== Early career == She studied at the [[Wimbledon College of Art]] and was production designer in theater for more than three years. However she was not entirely satisfied with the work, so she got a job at the [[BBC]] in the early 90s and stayed there for a while. It didn't only get her a better job, but helped in her transformation from theater to TV. She worked on designing sets for television talk show ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]''. Then, in the late 90s, the BBC disappeared the charge of production design,{{Clarify|date=September 2016}} and she had to work in independent cinema.
== Production design career and awards == In an interview column for the Golden Globe Awards, Greenwood stated that green arsenic was used in the corridors for the film ''Atonement'', but the director, Joe Wright, wanted [[Shamrock green|Irish green]] for the dress that [[Keira Knightley]] was going to use in the movie. Sarah decided to give priority to the dress and change the colour she had planned for the corridors, because the dress had a risk of losing visual emphasis. She said, "Sometimes you have to be strong to win battles, and sometimes you have to know when to let go." She was not entirely convinced with the colour that the director wanted, but there are decisions that an art director must make to get the message to the viewer.
Another story that she tells is that when she went to get a [[Production artist|production art]] job on a film to be made, someone said, "This project is very large. Sure you can handle it?" She had worked on huge sets, so she said "if you have the tools and enough supplies to meet the needs with a good production team, anything is possible." When she met the director, he said he was asked the same question; this made clear it was not a gender thing. "They just wanted to make sure that we all can do this," she said.
In 2017, Greenwood worked on Disney's live action version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', directed by [[Bill Condon]] and released in March, and the biopic ''[[Darkest Hour (film)|Darkest Hour]]'', directed by [[Joe Wright]]; receiving Oscar nominations for both.
In 2023, Greenwood and regular collaborator [[Katie Spencer]] worked on the live action film ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'', directed by [[Greta Gerwig]], for which Greenwood and Spencer received their 7th Oscar nomination.
Greenwood has been nominated seven times for an Academy Award – in [[78th Academy Awards|2006]] for ''[[Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|Pride & Prejudice]]'',<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414387/awards?ref_=tt_awd Pride and Prejudice (2005) Awards]. Retrieved 2018-03-05.</ref> in [[80th Academy Awards|2008]] for ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]'',<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/awards?ref_=tt_awd Atonement (2007) Awards]. Retrieved 2018-03-05.</ref> in [[82nd Academy Awards|2010]] for ''[[Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'',<ref>{{Citation |title=Sherlock Holmes |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/awards |accessdate=2018-03-05}}</ref> in [[85th Academy Awards|2013]] for ''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]''<ref name="Oscars2013">{{cite web |title=Oscars 2013: Full list of nominees |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20973004 |accessdate=2013-01-10 |work=BBC News}}</ref> in [[90th Academy Awards|2018]] for both [[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|''Beauty and the Beast'']],<ref>{{Citation |title=Beauty and the Beast |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/awards |accessdate=2018-03-05}}</ref> and [[Darkest Hour (film)|''Darkest Hour'']].,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darkest Hour (2017) Awards and nominations |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555426/awards?ref_=tt_awd |access-date=2018-03-05 |website=IMDB}}</ref> and in [[96th Academy Awards|2024]] for [[Barbie (film)|''Barbie'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barbie (2023) Awards and nominations |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/awards?ref_=tt_awd |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=IMDB}}</ref> In 2008, she was elected best production designer for ''Atonement'' at the [[61st British Academy Film Awards]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Film in 2013 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/film |access-date=2018-03-05 |website=awards.bafta.org |language=en}}</ref> the [[26th European Film Awards]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners 2013 |url=http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efanight/winners |accessdate=9 December 2013 |work=[[European Film Awards]] |publisher=European Film Academy |archive-date=1 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901183350/https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efanight/winners |url-status=dead }}</ref> and won the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film for the same film.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012 Winners & Nominees for Feature Film • Television & Commercials |url=http://www.adg.org/?art=2012_award |access-date=September 14, 2016 |publisher=[[Art Directors Guild]]}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Production Role ! Director |- | 2005 | ''[[Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|Pride and Prejudice]]'' | rowspan="11" |Production Designer | [[Joe Wright]] |- | 2007 | ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]'' | [[Joe Wright]] |- |2009 |''[[Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' | [[Guy Ritchie]] |- |rowspan="2" |2011 |''[[Hanna (film)|Hanna]]'' | [[Joe Wright]] |- |''[[Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows]]'' | [[Guy Ritchie]] |- |2012 |''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' | [[Joe Wright]] |- |2018 | ''[[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' | [[Bill Condon]] |- |2017 |''[[Darkest Hour (film)|Darkest Hour]]'' |[[Joe Wright]] |- | 2020 | ''[[Rebecca (2020 film)|Rebecca]]'' | [[Ben Wheatley|Ben Whealtey]] |- | 2023 | ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' | [[Greta Gerwig]] |- | 2024 | ''[[Back to Black (film)|Back to Black]]'' | [[Sam Taylor-Johnson]] |- |}
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