OSCAR RACE 2008
commentary by Nathaniel R

days until Oscar Nomination are announced

 

Best Costume Design - July 8th Predictions
nomination total reflect this category only

07/8 Minor adjustments and Chéri moving to 2009 freeing up a spot

06/11 I'm betting on 1950s prestige, royalty-porn, a chronological conundrum (Benjamin Button) and a double dose of the 1920s with two of Hollywood's great beauties (Pfeiffer & Jolie) representing Paris and America

04/01 Certain eras and certain designers are favored in this category but it's difficult to know what they'll respond to. They're a pleasingly difficult-to-predict group. But I'm going with the queen of the cateogry Powell, plus the long time span (different decades) of Benjamin Button, the dependable beauty of Baz Luhrmann pictures (Australia), Connecticut in the late 50s for Revolutionary Road and Chen Kaige's opera world biopic Mei Lanfang ...it might not get released --you never know with foreign films --but if it does, it has a good shot in this category

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Albert Wolsky
Revolutionary Road
6 noms / 2 wins
prev: 1,4
Catherine Martin
Australia
1 nom / 1 win
prev: 6,3
Jacqueline West
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1 nomination
prev: 2,2
Deborah Hopper
Changeling
never nominated
prev: 4,6
Sandy Powell
The Young Victoria
7 noms / 2 wins
prev: 5,1
Selling point:
Revered designer + 1950s + beloved Titanic stars
Selling point:
Moulin Rouge! team + 1930s work and evening wear
Selling point:
multiple decades of fashions in visually rich film
Selling point:
Angelina Jolie and huge cast in 1920s L.A. + HOOKERS
Selling point:
Revered designer + 19th century royalty-porn
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Eimer Ni Mhaold-omhnaigh
 Brideshead Revisited
never nominated
prev: 7,9
Lindy Hemming
The Dark Knight
1 nom / 1 win
prev: 8,10
Michael O'Connor
The Duchess
never nominated
prev: 12,11
Sandy Powell
The Other Boleyn Girl
7 noms / 2 wins
prev: 9,14
Jenny Beavan
Defiance
8 noms / 1 win
prev: 16,16
Selling point:
Oscar's Anglophilia + WW II fetish + 1940s high fashion
Selling point:
widespread love of superhero films + this franchise's Oscar success
Selling point:
Keira Knightley, the clothes horse
Selling point:
Revered designer + 16th century royalty-porn
Selling point:
Keira Knightley, the clothes horse

Clothes Horses
13 unknown Mei Lanfang (release plans?) prev: 13,5
14 Ann Roth 4 noms / 1 win The Reader (release plans?)
15 Catherine Marie Thomas Grey Gardens prev:15, 8
16 Daniel Orlandi (never nominated) Frost/Nixon prev: 19,23
17 Sabine Daigeler (never nominated) Argentine prev: 17,17
18 Carlo Poggioli (never nom'ed) Miracle at St Anna prev: 18,UR

More Threads
19 Michael O' Connor (never nominated) Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day prev: 21,24
20 Louise Frogley (never nominated) Leatherheads prev: 20,19
21 Danny Glicker (never nominated) Milk prev: 23,15
22 Ann Roth (4 noms / 1 win) Mamma Mia prev: --, 25
23 Patricia Field (1 nomination) Sex & the City: The Movie prev: 25,18
24 Margot Wilson (never nom'ed) The Road prev: 24,unranked
25 Louise Frogley (never nom'ed) Guerilla prev: 22,20


falling out: Valkyrie (Joanna Johnston) moved to 2009 / Kym Barrett & Wenyan Gao (never nom'ed) The Children of Huang Shi prev: 21 /

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April Ferry
The Edge of Love
1 nomination
prev: 11,22
Ann Roth
Doubt
4 noms / 1 win
prev: 10,13
Selling point:
Keira Knightley the clothe horse
Selling point:
Streep's only designer + 1950s + NUNS!
prediction history

July: Australia, Changeling, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, The Young Victoria
June: Chéri, Changeling, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, The Young Victoria
April: Australia, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mei Lanfang, Revolutionary Road, The Young Victoria

 

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