NOMINEES
- Anonymous – Lisy Christl
- The Artist – Mark Bridges
- Hugo – Sandy Powell
- Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
- W.E. – Arianne Phillips
Eligible films must meet certain requirements, including: costumes be ‘conceived’ by a costume designer (might sound obvious, but it is to acknowledge the designing of costumes for their use in a film); designer members of the Art Directors Branch vote in order of preference; eligibility is decided by the costume designer members of that branch at a meeting prior to nominations ballots being mailed; only principal designers can be nominated; and the five films receiving the highest number of votes become the final nominees.
Although in the post-war period (1949 to 1966) many winners of this award were contemporary movies, the trend in recent decades has been to reward period films.
- Lisy Christl speaks to The Hollywood Reporter
- Interview with Christl and gallery at Interview Magazine
- Mark Bridges speaks to Clothes on Film about the costumes in The Artist
- Colour gallery of costumes from The Artist
- Interview with Mark Bridges after winning the BAFTA
- Mark Bridges’ official site
- LA Times speak to Sandy Powell about her 10th nomination
- Indiewire interview with Sandy Powell
- Clothes on Film on Hugo
- GQ interview with Arianne Phillips
- Lengthy video interview with Arianne Phillips about the costumes (31 mins)
> Official Oscar site
> Explore previous winners of Best Costume Design at Wikipedia