Sandy Powell: dressing to impress
There is one Academy Awards category in which Britain always seems to be well represented: costume design
In a relatively quiet year for British cinema at the Oscars, the nation can still turn to that reliable standby, the best costume design award, for a little welling-up of patriotic pride. Four out of the last five winners have been British, and two of them – Sandy Powell and Michael O'Connor – are in the running this time. O'Connor is up for Jane Eyre, but the smart money is on Powell, for her work on Martin Scorsese's early-cinema fantasy Hugo.
Not only does Hugo have serious momentum as the leading nominated film with 11 mentions in total, but Powell, 51, has some claim to be the doyenne of international costume design: Hugo is her 10th Oscar nomination in a record that stretches back to Orlando in 1992. She has won three times: with Shakespeare in Love...
In a relatively quiet year for British cinema at the Oscars, the nation can still turn to that reliable standby, the best costume design award, for a little welling-up of patriotic pride. Four out of the last five winners have been British, and two of them – Sandy Powell and Michael O'Connor – are in the running this time. O'Connor is up for Jane Eyre, but the smart money is on Powell, for her work on Martin Scorsese's early-cinema fantasy Hugo.
Not only does Hugo have serious momentum as the leading nominated film with 11 mentions in total, but Powell, 51, has some claim to be the doyenne of international costume design: Hugo is her 10th Oscar nomination in a record that stretches back to Orlando in 1992. She has won three times: with Shakespeare in Love...
- 2/25/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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