Annual Academy Award for achievement in film costume design
TheAcademy Award for Best Costume Design is one of theAcademy Awards presented annually by theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.[ 1]
The award was first given in 1949, forfilms made in 1948. Initially, separate award categories were established for black-and-white films and color films. Since the merger of the two categories in 1967, the Academy has traditionally avoided giving out the award to films with a contemporary setting.[ 2]
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is given out annually by theAcademy 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. For this particular criteria, each submission is reviewed by the costume designer members of the Art Directors Branch prior to the ballot process. Further rules include that the nominee(s) be only the principal costume designer(s), that the five films that receive the highest number of votes will become the ceremony's nominations for final voting, and that the final voting will only be undertaken by active and life members of the academy.[ 3]
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given out at the21st Academy Awards ,[ 4] films in black and white and one for films in color.[ 5] 30th Academy Awards , held on March 26, 1958, these two subcategories were merged into one,[ 6] [ 7] 32nd Academy Awards saw the category again be split into two for recognition of both black and white and color film.[ 8] [ 9]
From 1949 to 1966, most Academy Awards for Best Costume Design in Black and White were given to a contemporary movie. On the other hand, epics, fantasies, and musicals dominated the color category.[ 10] [ 11] Travels with My Aunt All That Jazz The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [ 11]
Winners and nominees [ edit ] indicates the winner
Year Film Costume designer(s) 1950 (23rd) [ 14] Black-and-White All About Eve Edith Head andCharles LeMaire Born Yesterday Jean Louis The Magnificent Yankee Walter Plunkett Color Samson and Delilah Edith Head ,Dorothy Jeakins ,Elois Jenssen ,Gile Steele andGwen Wakeling The Black Rose Michael Whittaker That Forsyte Woman Walter Plunkett andValles 1951 (24th) [ 15] Black-and-White A Place in the Sun Edith Head Kind Lady Walter Plunkett andGile Steele (posthumously ) The Model and the Marriage Broker Charles LeMaire andRenié The Mudlark Edward Stevenson andMargaret Furse A Streetcar Named Desire Lucinda Ballard Color An American in Paris Orry-Kelly ,Walter Plunkett andIrene Sharaff David and Bathsheba Charles LeMaire andEdward Stevenson The Great Caruso Helen Rose andGile Steele (posthumously ) Quo Vadis Herschel McCoy Tales of Hoffmann Hein Heckroth 1952 (25th) [ 16] Black-and-White The Bad and the Beautiful Helen Rose Affair in Trinidad Jean Louis Carrie Edith Head My Cousin Rachel Charles LeMaire andDorothy Jeakins Sudden Fear Sheila O'Brien Color Moulin Rouge Marcel Vertès The Greatest Show on Earth Edith Head ,Dorothy Jeakins andMiles White Hans Christian Andersen Clavé ,Mary Wills andMadame Karinska The Merry Widow Helen Rose andGile Steele (posthumously ) With a Song in My Heart Charles LeMaire 1953 (26th) [ 17] Black-and-White Roman Holiday Edith Head The Actress Walter Plunkett Dream Wife Helen Rose andHerschel McCoy From Here to Eternity Jean Louis The President's Lady Charles LeMaire andRenié Color The Robe Charles LeMaire andEmile Santiago The Band Wagon Mary Ann Nyberg Call Me Madam Irene Sharaff How to Marry a Millionaire Charles LeMaire andTravilla Young Bess Walter Plunkett 1954 (27th) [ 18] Black-and-White Sabrina Edith Head The Earrings of Madame de... Georges Annenkov andRosine Delamare Executive Suite Helen Rose Indiscretion of an American Wife Christian Dior It Should Happen to You Jean Louis Color Gate of Hell Sanzo Wada Brigadoon Irene Sharaff Desiree Charles LeMaire andRené Hubert A Star Is Born Jean Louis ,Mary Ann Nyberg andIrene Sharaff There's No Business Like Show Business Charles LeMaire ,William Travilla andMiles White 1955 (28th) [ 19] Black-and-White I'll Cry Tomorrow Helen Rose The Pickwick Papers Beatrice Dawson Queen Bee Jean Louis The Rose Tattoo Edith Head Ugetsu Tadaoto Kainosho Color Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Charles LeMaire Guys and Dolls Irene Sharaff Interrupted Melody Helen Rose To Catch a Thief Edith Head The Virgin Queen Charles LeMaire andMary Wills 1956 (29th) [ 20] Black-and-White The Solid Gold Cadillac Jean Louis Seven Samurai Kohei Ezaki The Power and the Prize Helen Rose The Proud and Profane Edith Head Teenage Rebel Charles LeMaire andMary Wills Color The King and I Irene Sharaff Around the World in 80 Days Miles White Giant Moss Mabry andMarjorie Best The Ten Commandments Edith Head ,Ralph Jester ,John Jensen ,Dorothy Jeakins andArnold Friberg War and Peace Maria De Matteis 1957 (30th) [ 6] [ note 1] Les Girls Orry-Kelly An Affair to Remember Charles LeMaire Funny Face Edith Head andHubert de Givenchy Pal Joey Jean Louis Raintree County Walter Plunkett 1958 (31st) [ 21] [ note 1] Gigi Cecil Beaton Bell, Book and Candle Jean Louis The Buccaneer Ralph Jester ,Edith Head andJohn Jensen A Certain Smile Charles LeMaire andMary Wills Some Came Running Walter Plunkett 1959 (32nd) [ 8] Black-and-White Some Like It Hot Orry-Kelly Career Edith Head The Diary of Anne Frank Charles LeMaire andMary Wills The Gazebo Helen Rose The Young Philadelphians Howard Shoup Color Ben-Hur Elizabeth Haffenden The Best of Everything Adele Palmer The Big Fisherman Renié The Five Pennies Edith Head Porgy and Bess Irene Sharaff
^a b In 1957 and 1958, black-and-white and color films competed in a combined Best Costume Design category. ^ Yvonne Blake publicly complained about sharing a nomination withRon Talsky forThe Four Musketeers Raquel Welch " for the preceding filmThe Three Musketeers ^ Jane Clive was initially announced as a nominee forMaleficent , but was later removed from the nomination.Shortlisted finalists [ edit ] Finalists for Best Costume Design were selected by branch members, who voted for ten finalists which were screened to determine the five nominees.[ 86]
Year Finalists Ref 1967 Doctor Dolittle Hotel More Than a Miracle Valley of the Dolls The Way West [ 87] 1968 Funny Girl Great Catherine The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band The Sea Gull War and Peace [ 88] 1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Goodbye, Mr. Chips Oh! What a Lovely War The Reivers The Royal Hunt of the Sun [ 89] 1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes The Great White Hope Little Big Man Myra Breckinridge Rio Lobo [ 90] 1971 The Grissom Gang The Love Machine Plaza Suite [ 91] 1972 Cabaret Fellini's Roma Pete 'n' Tillie Savage Messiah 1776 [ 92] 1973 The Iceman Cometh Jesus Christ Superstar The Nelson Affair The New Land Oklahoma Crude [ 93] 1974 Airport 1975 Earthquake The Front Page The Island at the Top of the World The Towering Inferno [ 94] 1975 Amarcord The Day of the Locust Hard Times Once Is Not Enough Tommy [ 95] 1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Logan's Run Silent Movie Swashbuckler Voyage of the Damned [ 96] 1977 High Anxiety The Island of Dr. Moreau The Last Remake of Beau Geste 1900 The Slipper and the Rose [ 97] 1978 Autumn Sonata The Big Fix Goin' South Grease House Calls [ 98] 1979 The Black Hole Hair The Rose Star Trek: The Motion Picture Sunburn [ 86]
Category Name Superlative Notes Most Awards[ 99] Edith Head 8 awards Awards resulted from 35 nominations Most Nominations[ 99] 35 nominations Nominations resulted in 8 awards Most Nominations Patricia Norris 6 nominations Nominations resulted in no awards
Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ] The following 96 designers have received multiple nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. This list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).
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