Josie MacAvin

Josephine "Josie" MacAvin (1919 – 26 January 2005) was an Irish set decorator and art director.

She won an Academy Award and was nominated two more times in the category Best Art Direction.

MacAvin's Oscar and Emmy statuettes are both on permanent display at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin.

[3] MacAvin began in showbusiness as a ballerina, performing with the Irish Ballet Club at the Gate Theatre in 1943.

[4] In the 1950s she was stage director and company manager of the Dublin Players, who toured the U.S. with plays by Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw and Lennox Robinson.