Melinda Doring

Melinda Doring is an Australian production designer and former costume designer. She has won the AACTA Award for Best Production Design four times and been nominated twice more.

Career

In reviews of Home Song Stories (2007), Variety called the production "ace",^[1] and The Hollywood Reporter described it as "first-rate".^[2] In an otherwise mixed review, The Sydney Morning Herald praised Doring's production design in Triangle (2009).^[3] The Hollywood Reporter wrote that her production design in The Eye of the Storm "evokes a world of chauffeured Bentleys and kangaroo-fur stoles inhabited by a wannabe colonial aristocracy".^[4]

Awards

Year	Organization	Award	Film	Result	Ref
2004	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design	Somersault	Won	[5]
2005	AACTA Awards	Best Costume Design	Little Fish	Nominated	[6]
2006	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design	Suburban Mayhem	Nominated	[7]
2007	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design	The Home Song Stories	Won	[8]
	Golden Horse Awards	Best Art Direction	The Home Song Stories	Nominated	[9]
	Inside Film Awards	Best Production Design	The Home Song Stories	Won	[10]
2011	Inside Film Awards	Best Production Design	Oranges and Sunshine	Won	[11]
2012	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design	The Eye of the Storm	Won	[12]
2013	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design	The Sapphires	Won	[13]
2020	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design in Television	Stateless	Won	[14]
2024	AACTA Awards	Best Production Design in Television	The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart	Won	[15]

Prior to 2012, the AACTA Awards were known as the AFI Awards.

Filmography

Year	Title	Production designer	Costume designer
2000	City of Dreams	Yes	Yes
2001	Mullet	No	Yes
2002	Walking on Water	No	Yes
2004	Somersault	Yes	No
2005	Little Fish	No	No
	Jewboy	Yes	No
2006	Suburban Mayhem	No	Yes
	The Silence	Yes	No
2007	Home Song Stories	Yes	No
2008	Maverick Mother	Yes	Yes
	$9.99	Yes	No
2009	Triangle	Yes	No
	The Boys Are Back	Yes	No
2010	Oranges and Sunshine	Yes	No
2011	The Eye of the Storm	Yes	No
2012	The Sapphires	Yes	No
	Underground: The Julian Assange Story	Yes	No
2013	Tracks	Yes	No
2015	Strangerland	Yes	No

References

1. Kuipers, Richard (9 February 2007). "Review: 'The Home Song Stories'". Variety. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
2. Lehmann, Megan (8 February 2007). "The Home Song Stories". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
3. Hall, Sandra (24 April 2010). "Triangle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
4. Lehmann, Megan (23 July 2011). "The Eye of the Storm: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
5. "AFI flips over 'Somersault'". ABC Online. 29 October 2004. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
6. "The full list of AFI nominees". Sydney Morning Herald. 21 October 2005. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
7. Chai, Paul (19 October 2006). "'Mayhem' rules Oz AFI nominations". Variety. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
8. Boland, Michaela (5 December 2007). "'Home Song' collects AFI honors". Variety. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
9. Frater, Patrick (28 October 2007). "'Lust, Caution' tops Golden Horses". Variety. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
10. Boland, Michaela (16 November 2007). "Inside Film Awards honor 'Jammed'". Variety. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
11. Davies, Rebecca (18 November 2011). "'Red Dog' wins seven Inside Film awards in Australia". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
12. Bodey, Michael (16 January 2012). "ABC dominates first round of AACTA Awards". The Australian. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
13. Maddox, Garry (28 January 2013). "The Sapphires sparkles at film awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
14. Keast, Jackie (27 November 2020). "'Stateless' dominates first round of AACTA Awards". if.com.au. Inside Film. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
15. https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/02/aacta-awards-2024-winners.html

External links

• Melinda Doring at IMDb
• Interview at Inside Film