John Bright

Costume designer. Born 7 March 1940 in New Forest.

Titles on Fi1m

Average Fi1m score

Oscar1 won · 5 nominated

Born

7 March 1940, New Forest

Active

1986–1996

Frequently works with

Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Grant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anthony Hopkins, Denholm Elliott

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Biography

John Bright is a British costume designer. He founded the costume house Cosprop in 1965 and has collaborated extensively with Jenny Beavan on period films, particularly those produced by Merchant Ivory.

Bright's credits include costume design for A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) and Sense and Sensibility (1995). He won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Costume Design for A Room with a View, and received further Oscar nominations for several of the other films.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2024 for services to costume design and heritage.

Compiled from published sources (en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com) · 13 September 2026How we write and check

On Fi1m

Twelfth Night

1996 · Costume Design, Costume design

Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Costume Design, Costume design

The Remains of the Day

1993 · Costume design, Costume Design

Howards End

1992 · Costume Design, Costume design

Maurice

1987 · Costume design, Costume Design

A Room with a View

1986 · Costume design, Costume Design