If you want to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design, it’s best to pick a project for which you can create frilly dresses from a bygone era. Since its introduction at the 1948 Academy Awards, this category has favored period pieces, including last year’s winner “Little Women.” Voters love to reward the creative forces behind such films, especially those that are about the aristocracy including recent champs “Marie Antoinette” (2007), “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2008), “The Duchess” (2009), “The Young Victoria” (2010), and “Anna Karenina” (2013). (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2021 Oscars predictions for Best Costume Design.)
By the way, none of those films even competed for Best Picture. Indeed, only 20 of the most recent 71 Best Picture champs also won this award. Among these was “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004). Fantasy films such as this often boast Oscar-winning costumes, including 2019 winner “Black Panther,” and recent champs “Alice in Wonderland...
By the way, none of those films even competed for Best Picture. Indeed, only 20 of the most recent 71 Best Picture champs also won this award. Among these was “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004). Fantasy films such as this often boast Oscar-winning costumes, including 2019 winner “Black Panther,” and recent champs “Alice in Wonderland...
- 3/4/2021
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Costume designers Mark Bridges (“News of the World”), Charlese Antoinette Jones (“Judas and the Black Messiah”), Paolo Nieddu (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) and Natalie O’Brien (“I’m Your Woman”) represent films that span more than 100 years of American history, from post-Civil War Texas to Civil Rights-era Chicago. Wardrobe plays a large part in transporting the audience to a different time and place, but are there any eras these costumers would most like to capture on-screen that they haven’t already? We asked them that and more during our “Meet the Experts” panel, which you can watch. Click on each name above to be taken to each person’s individual interview.
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O’Brien has designed costumes for the 14th century (“The Little Hours”) and the 19th century (“Lizzie”), and “I’m Your Woman” brought her to the late 1970s,...
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O’Brien has designed costumes for the 14th century (“The Little Hours”) and the 19th century (“Lizzie”), and “I’m Your Woman” brought her to the late 1970s,...
- 1/20/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“This was very new for me,” says “I’m Your Woman” costume designer Natalie O’Brien about capturing 1970s style in the Amazon crime thriller. “I had done 18th century, 14th century, some ’80s and ’90s, and some other stuff of course,” so she was “excited” to expand her repertoire to yet another era. She discussed the film with us as part of our “Meet the Experts” costume designers panel. Watch our interview above.
SEEJulia Hart on directing ‘I’m Your Woman’ and watching the Best Picture ‘La La Land’ mix-up unfold [Exclusive Video Interview]
The film tells the story of Jean (Rachel Brosnahan), who goes on the run after her criminal husband disappears. It’s an original story directed by Julia Hart and written by Hart with her husband Jordan Horowitz, so O’Brien was “building these characters from scratch.” What’s more, Hart wanted “to make sure that we’re pulling references from the...
SEEJulia Hart on directing ‘I’m Your Woman’ and watching the Best Picture ‘La La Land’ mix-up unfold [Exclusive Video Interview]
The film tells the story of Jean (Rachel Brosnahan), who goes on the run after her criminal husband disappears. It’s an original story directed by Julia Hart and written by Hart with her husband Jordan Horowitz, so O’Brien was “building these characters from scratch.” What’s more, Hart wanted “to make sure that we’re pulling references from the...
- 1/20/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Five top film costume designers will reveal details behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Btl Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Wednesday, January 13, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a group chat with Daniel and all of the group together.
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This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros.): Charlese Antoinette Jones
Jones’ career has included “Raising Dion,” “See You Yesterday,...
RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros.): Charlese Antoinette Jones
Jones’ career has included “Raising Dion,” “See You Yesterday,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Is Oscar next for Rachel Brosnahan? The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star’s new film “I’m Your Woman” will officially enter the awards race when it qualifies for Oscar consideration with a limited theatrical release beginning Friday, Dec. 4, having premiered at the AFI Fest in October as the opening screening of the 2020 virtual event. The drama from Amazon will then be available for streaming on Prime Instant Video a week later on Dec. 11.
Brosnahan stars as Jean, who is sent on the run with her baby when her husband finds himself in hot water with his criminal associates. Jean is assisted in her action-packed journey by married couple Cal and Teri, played by Arinzé Kene and Emmy nominee Marsha Stephanie Blake, respectively.
The screenplay by director Julia Hart and her husband Jordan Horowitz is a response to the “wife” trope in mob movies that instead focus their narratives on the husbands as antiheroes.
Brosnahan stars as Jean, who is sent on the run with her baby when her husband finds himself in hot water with his criminal associates. Jean is assisted in her action-packed journey by married couple Cal and Teri, played by Arinzé Kene and Emmy nominee Marsha Stephanie Blake, respectively.
The screenplay by director Julia Hart and her husband Jordan Horowitz is a response to the “wife” trope in mob movies that instead focus their narratives on the husbands as antiheroes.
- 12/3/2020
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
“I just wanted to take one of my most favorite and beloved genres of all time and tell the woman’s story inside of it,” writer-director Julia Hart told the Hollywood Reporter about I’m Your Woman, her spin on 1970s crime dramas. The film—which is set in the ‘70s, as well as adopting the cinematic aesthetic of the period—stars Rachel Brosnahan as housewife Jean, who is sent to a safe house with her baby after her criminal husband becomes a target. We’ve seen this story from the husband’s point of view a million times, women like Jean relegated to the sidelines and rarely revisited once they’re sent away. It’s a welcome perspective shift; unfortunately, Hart’s slow burn doesn’t have enough fuel to grab your attention beyond an intriguing premise.
I’m Your Woman is admirably small-scale: if you’re looking for the thrilling action-fest the trailer promised,...
I’m Your Woman is admirably small-scale: if you’re looking for the thrilling action-fest the trailer promised,...
- 12/2/2020
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
Who were you before the world beat you down? That so-called inner child that therapists and astrologers are always on about, how have you let them down? We’ve all let the pressures of popularity, society, and conformity mold and shape us into more palatable versions of ourselves. After all, that’s what becoming an adult is. At least, that’s what the perils of high school socialization led us to believe. How might your life have been different if someone who was so utterly and wholly themselves swooped in to remind you of your precious inner magic?
That’s the question at the heart of “Stargirl,” a tender and offbeat coming-of-age indie premiering this week on Disney+. The film is based on the 2000 novel by Jerry Spinelli, a unique young adult novelist who specializes in crafting grounded, reality-adjacent universes with a comedic flare and just a hint of otherworldliness.
That’s the question at the heart of “Stargirl,” a tender and offbeat coming-of-age indie premiering this week on Disney+. The film is based on the 2000 novel by Jerry Spinelli, a unique young adult novelist who specializes in crafting grounded, reality-adjacent universes with a comedic flare and just a hint of otherworldliness.
- 3/13/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Maybe it’s the fault of “The Fault in Our Stars” that we assume, in the flourishing modern era of the young-adult genre, that one of the story’s romantic leads has to die in order to advance the dramatic stakes. Fortunately, that’s not the case with director Julia Hart’s “Stargirl.” Adapted by Hart, Kristin Hahn and Jordan Horowitz from Jerry Spinelli’s novel of the same name, this tale of two teens falling in love and struggling to find balance in their polar opposite identities may prove difficult viewing for cynics or those with a low tolerance for the overtly saccharine.
Sixteen-year-old Leo Borlock (Graham Verchere) is about to realize there are no perks of being a wallflower. Since the death of his father and a traumatic bullying incident, he’s felt that the key to surviving adolescence is fitting in without disrupting the norm. That means...
Sixteen-year-old Leo Borlock (Graham Verchere) is about to realize there are no perks of being a wallflower. Since the death of his father and a traumatic bullying incident, he’s felt that the key to surviving adolescence is fitting in without disrupting the norm. That means...
- 3/13/2020
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
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