Best costume design --- who should win

The Academy Award nominations for costume design were announced (along with all the other nominations) this morning, so I just posted my fourth annual blog prediction (and I have been right every year so far....) Check it out:
http://kickshawproductions.com/blog/?p=2768

 

Your logic seems airtight, Jonathan--bet you'll be right this year, too!

The only movie I've seen of the ones you discuss was Hugo, and as visually stunning as the movie was, the costumes really didn't stand out much...

As far as the premise of Shakespeare--nonsense! I'm completely convinced that Shakespeare was a Jewish woman:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/was-william-shakespeare-a-jewish-woman-in-disguise-1.246717

 

Why not? It's more plausible than some theories out there (but I also believe a UFO did crash at Roswell and that Oswald was a patsy, so I might not be the best judge...)

 

Seriously, though, Shakespeare WAS a Jewish woman... :USEROCKY:

 

But I was serious -- I really DO believe a UFO crashed at Roswell and that Oswald was a patsy!

 

I'd like to see Jane Eyre win too - and I love the menswear from that era. I haven't seen it yet but oh, I don't get to see as many films as I'd like to these days.

Did anyone see "Eye of the Storm"? Australian film, I had lots of vintage in that.

Saw "Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy" the other night - very nice production design and costumes. Hard to fault. What's not to love about a lot of nice three piece Savile Row suits?

I really loved "A Single Man", it was my favourite film of last year.

 

I was surprised TInker Tailor Soldier Spy wasn't nominated. I haven't seen it yet, but the stills from it show an excellent costuming job...

 

Ditto!

MS--thanks for the positive review of Dragon Tattoo. It's good to know that a version without Noomi Rapace is worth seeing!

 

Hello,

Great post Jonathan! From the nominated films, I have only seen "The Artist". The costumes in that film were good, but not what I would call impressive enough for a nomination. Some of it looked like stage costumes, not always like actual clothing worn in the late 1920s and early 30s, but they were nice to look at. I think they may have been intended to purposely have a look of film costume-y look to them, done to follow the theme of the film. Much of it looked like a "film within a film within a film" kind of thing.

I will try to see a few more films before Oscar day.

 

That's the vibe I was getting Barbara from the stills I saw of The Artist. Its almost like they purposefully didn't try to recreate a 20s film? The leading girl would not really have been considered beautiful in the late 1920s - her face is too angular and her features too large, and her legs too skinny. When I think of 20s beauties they are petite, 20 pounds heavier than what we would consider the right weight today, and had round faces with small features.

 

I agree!

 

I love '20s and '30s beauties, they're sweet and gentle like roses!

Films like "Tinker Tailor" often get overlooked for costume awards because they're short on fanciness but they're a great challenge to a designer when you have such strong limitations. My feeling is that when the costume designer does a great job, you barely notice the costumes, all you see is a great characterisation.

I'm dreading "The Great Gatsby" and what Baz Luhrmann will do it it - the photos I've seen make me queasy. Have you seen Isla Fisher as Myrtle?



Source.

 

Uh oh.... I hate to say it but I could barely stand watching Australia. I think Baz may have peaked with Moulin Rouge at the start of his career....

 

I couldn't see Australia, even though I have costumes in it. The temptation to see Nicole Kidman wearing it wasn't enough, once I saw the trailer it just put me off it.

I'll go earlier: I liked Romeo + Juliet but thought Moulin Rouge needed a lot of editing. It just had too much going on for my liking - some scenes were like being in a washing machine.