Costume Designer Jacqueline Durran on ‘Pride & Prejudice’ 20 Years Later: ‘It Feels Like a Different Era of Filmmaking’

“People tell me how it’s their favorite film to watch on a Sunday afternoon when it’s raining. I’m so thrilled that it’s got that place in people’s hearts,” Jacqueline Durran said, reminiscing on the lasting relevance of the 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s venerated novel “Pride & Prejudice.” The two-time Oscar-winner served as the costume designer for director Joe Wright’s feature film debut, a time when Durran was completely new to the world of cinema. “Pride & Prejudice” celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025, coinciding with Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. The film received wide critical acclaim at the time of its debut, and earned four Oscar nominations, including Durran’s first nod of nine for her costume designs. She’s since won the Best Costume Design statuette for “Anna Karenina” (2013) and “Little Women” (2020). Twenty years on, even Durran cedes to the film’s continued accessibility. (L-R) Jena Malone, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Talulah Riley, Brenda Blethyn and Carey Mulligan in “Pride & Prejudice” (2005). “We were talking about it recently because it feels like a different era of filmmaking,” Durran said on a late March afternoon over Zoom, a Hoover running indiscriminately in another room of her home. “We were so much on

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