Linda Muir

Linda Muir is a Canadian costume designer, best known for her frequent collaborations with director Robert Eggers. Her accolades include a Costume Designers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

Muir has received four nominations for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design and has won twice for Exotica (1994) and Lilies (1996). She faced a formidable challenge while working on the latter film, not the least in designing a very excellent ballroom gown for male actor Rémy Girard. Muir said that her approach was "not to dress men in women's clothing but to build [female] costumes for men's bodies."

Muir joined the crew for Robert Eggers' feature film The Witch in December 2013. During the preproduction period, she conducted exhaustive research, which included consulting 35 books from the Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England series provided by Eggers, as well as other books and images on 17th-century fashion. She had also examined photographs of original garments in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fashion Museum, Bath, that she took back in 1984. Muir created authentic-looking film wardrobes made of wool, linen, or hemp for an ensemble of nine principal characters. Operating on a limited budget, she pushed for an increase in order to better meet the screenplay's demands, thereby bringing the director's vision to fruition.

Filmography Film YearTitleDirectorNotes 1989 Cold Comfort Vic Sarin 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould François Girard 1994 Exotica Atom Egoyan 1995 When Night Is Falling Patricia Rozema 1996 Long Day's Journey into Night David Wellington Lilies John Greyson 1997 The Assistant Daniel Petrie 1998 Dog Park Bruce McCulloch 1999 Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang George Bloomfield 2000 Three Stories from the End of Everything Semi Chellas Short film The Perfect Son Leonard Farlinger 2003 Foolproof William Phillips 2007 All Hat Leonard Farlinger 2011 Mulroney: The Opera Larry Weinstein 2012 The Secret Disco Revolution Jamie Kastner Documentary 2015 The Witch Robert Eggers 2016 Rupture Steven Shainberg 2019 The Lighthouse Robert Eggers Random Acts of Violence Jay Baruchel 2020 The Silencing Robin Pront Additional costume designer 2022 The Northman Robert Eggers 2024 Nosferatu 2026 Werwulf

Television YearTitleNotes 1987 Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show 2 episodes 1988–1991 My Secret Identity 69 episodes 1994 Hostage for a Day Television film 1996 Kratts' Creatures Episode: "Big Five, Little Five" 1997 Borrowed Hearts Television film On the 2nd Day of Christmas 1998 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy Television film and pilot Little Men 3 episodes 2000 Flowers for Algernon Television film 2002 Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story The Associates 17 episodes 2002–2005 The Eleventh Hour 38 episodes 2008–2009 Life with Derek 18 episodes 2012 XIII: The Series 13 episodes 2015–2016 Bitten 20 episodes 2017 Ransom 2 episodes 2017–2018 Murdoch Mysteries 19 episodes

Awards and nominations Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2025 Best Costume Design Nosferatu

BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards 2025 Best Costume Design Nosferatu

Miscellaneous awards + Award Year Category Title Result Ref. Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards 2024 Best Costume Design Nosferatu Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2022 Best Costume Design The Northman 2024 Nosferatu Costume Designers Guild Awards 2025 Excellence in Period Film Critics' Choice Awards 2025 Best Costume Design Dora Mavor Moore Awards 1982 Outstanding Costume Design, General Theatre Tamara 1992 Outstanding Design, Small Theatre Jump Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2025 Best Costume Design Nosferatu Gemini Awards 2002 Best Costume Design Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story Genie Awards 1994 Best Costume Design Exotica 1996 When Night Is Falling 1996 Lilies 2000 Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2016 Best Costume Design The Witch 2022 The Northman 2024 Nosferatu Online Film Critics Society Awards 2025 Best Costume Design Satellite Awards 2025 Best Costume Design Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 2017 Best Costume Design The Witch 2023 The Northman 2024 Nosferatu St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2024 Best Costume Design