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Jan 14, 2016 · Competing for the Best Costume Design award this year are Sandy Powell for Carol and Cinderella, Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl, Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road, and Jacqueline West for...
- Carol
- Cinderella
- The Danish Girl
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Revenant
Designer: Sandy Powell Director Todd Haynes’ drama about a photographer, Therese (Rooney Mara), who falls for an older woman, Carol (Cate Blanchett), takes place in 1950s New York during the winter, a setting that plays an important role in the aesthetic and emotion of the film, particularly the costumes. Powell was inspired by colors captured in t...
Designer: Sandy Powell On the opposite end of the spectrum, Powell also designed the costumes for director Kenneth Branagh’s update of the classic fairy tale. The looks scream whimsy, and Powell says that came naturally. “It wasn’t difficult making the costumes fun because it’s a fairy tale,” she says. “You can let your imagination run wild and be ...
Designer: Paco Delgado The 1920s-set The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper, centers on artists Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) as they address their marriage and careers as Lili undergoes sex reassignment surgery. Costumes in general are an important factor in the development of a story’s character, but here, they a...
Designer: Jenny Beavan Mad Max: Fury Roadhas a much grittier look and feel than the other nominated films. Directed by George Miller, the film set in post-apocalyptic Australia tells the story of a group of road warriors fighting against a tyrannical leader. Its costumes are perfectly dystopian, with a grimy aesthetic and metal details. Beaven, who...
Designer: Jacqueline West Another film that put its costumes through the wringer was The Revenant, director Alejandro Iñárritu’s survival epic of frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), who works in the 1820s’ blistering cold American wilderness and fights his way back to life after being attacked by a bear and abandoned by his crew. Namely, W...
Mar 21, 2022 · Paul Tazewell, who won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in 2016 for his work on “Hamilton,” is the first Black man to be nominated for the Academy Award for best costume design.
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Mar 14, 2016 · 01 of 21. Costume Designers Share Their Sketches. Focus Features; Disney; Kirsten Franson; Sandy Powell; Warner Bros. Pictures. The Danish Girl, Cinderella, The Revenant, Carol, and Mad Max:...
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The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is given out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the best achievement of film costume design of the previous year. Films that are eligible for the award must meet a series of criteria, including the requirement that the costumes must have been "conceived" by a costume designer.
Feb 28, 2016 · The 88th Academy Awards were unveiled at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on Sunday. The complete list of winners is below.
Mar 30, 2024 · What do this century's Academy Award winners for Best Costume Design tell us about what is deemed award-worthy? Plenty!
