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4 days ago · There's a reason you can win an Academy Award for this discipline—costumes are "really important" to every character. What is Costume Design? Costume Design is more than just putting clothes on actors—a well-designed costume can help reveal a character's personality, social status, occupation, and even their psychological state.
1 day ago · Who is the most famous costume designer? Edith Head, arguably the most famous costume designer ever, summed up her work near the end of her career. “What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage,” the eight-time Academy Award winner (and 35-time nominee) for costume design told American Film in 1978.
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story .
2 days ago · Costume designer Amy Higdon tells IndieWire about how she and her team of indigenous women used low-key costumes to tell a sharply revealing story.
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
3 days ago · Master Class with Costume Designer Janty Yates/Special Screening of Gladiator. Day One of the fest kicked off with a Master Class with Janty Yates led by Chair of Production Design and SCAD alum, Lisa Ryan. Yates discussed what it was like to meet Ridley Scott ahead of her Academy Award-winning work in 2000’s Gladiator.
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [2]
