The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has received a gift of costume design drawings and related production materials documenting the career of costume designer Michael Woulfe. Woulfe's career highlights include work on such films as Clash by Night (1952), The French Line (1953), Son of Sinbad (1955) and The Conqueror (1956). He was known for styling actresses such as Judy Garland, Jane Russell and Jean Simmons, and for designing the employee uniforms for four Las Vegas hotels and casinos owned by Howard Hughes, as well as the costumes for the Las Vegas nightclub shows of Debbie Reynolds, Lena
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- 10/31/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tossing its hat into the ongoing onslaught of nominations, the Costume Designers Guild on Wednesday announced the nominees for its eighth annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. In the period film category, the designers' taste ranged from Japanese kimonos from the 1930s to thrift store ware from New York's Lower East Side circa the 1980s as they nominated Kasia Walicka-Maimone for Capote, Louise Frogley for Good Night, and Good Luck, Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha, Arianne Phillips for Walk the Line and Aggie Guerard Rodgers for Rent. Atwood, an Oscar winner for Chicago, also has been chosen to receive the group's Lacoste Spotlight in Film Award. Other special honorees, who will be recognized at an awards gala Feb. 25 at the Beverly Hilton, include Thomas C. Short, president of IATSE, who is to receive the Swarovski President's Award, and Star Trek designer Robert Blackman, who will get the Spotlight in Television Award. Anna Hill Johnstone will be inducted into the Edith Head Hall of Fame, and the guild will present Michael Woulfe, Grady Hunt and Moss Mabry with a Gold Card for their years of service to the guild, IATSE Local 892.
- 1/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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