Kirsty Cameron

Kirsty Cameron is a New Zealand costume designer, production designer, writer, and film director.

Background Cameron's mother, Nanette Cameron, was an interior design tutor. She was also wardrobe styling for a local magazine and working with stills photographers before her film career began.

Awards and nominations Cameron's first nominations came for Channelling Baby (1999; Christine Parker) and Rain (2001; directed by Christine Jeffs). She has won two New Zealand Film and TV Awards, the first in 2003 for Whale Rider (2002; Niki Caro), and the second in 2008 for Perfect Creature (2007; Glenn Standring).

Cameron's costume designs for Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog (2022) garnered her international nominations for a Satellite Award and a CinEuphoria Award. This was the second western starring Kodi Smit-McPhee filmed in New Zealand that Cameron worked on, as she also was costume designer for Slow West (2015; John Maclean), which itself was also a directorial debut. Cameron has said that "having worked with Kodi [Smit-McPhee] before" gave her confidence in choices she made for costuming him for The Power of the Dog; "I knew he could pull this off. ... The simplicity of his costume leaves room for the mystery of his character."

She has also designed costumes for dancer/choreographer Douglas Wright.