Josie MacAvin, who won Best Production Design for ‘Out of Africa’ in 1985. MacAvin is Ireland’s only ever winner of both an Oscar and an Emmy. She donated her Oscar to the Irish Film Archive and it is now on permanent display at the IFI in Temple Bar.
Josie’s connection to Oughterard is that her paternal grandmother Anne Walsh McAvin was born in Billamore.
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