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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 · Winners and nominees. Winners are listed first in the colored row and denoted by double dagger (‡), followed by the other nominees. 1940s Orson Welles co-won the award for Citizen Kane in 1942. Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-winner of the second award in this category (for Citizen Kane).
5 days ago · Ruth E. Carter, Oscar-winning costume designer for films like Black Panther and Amistad, reflects on her Coastal Virginia roots as part of the opening of a retrospective exhibit at Jamestown Settlement
2 days ago · Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade) and John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) have been nominated for acting but not won.
3 days ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · The following editors have received multiple nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. This list is sorted by the number of total awards won (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).
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2 days ago · American costume designer, Ruth Carter, has become the first Black woman to win two Oscar nominations. In the 2023 award competition, she took home the prize for costume design.
