2023 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Names are a big part of the game in Costume Design. The Sandy Powells, Colleen Atwoods, Jenny Beavans and Jacqueline Durrans of the world get in season after season, sometimes as one of their film’s only (or only) nomination, and they win. A lot. As luck would have it, all have contenders this year in what could be a major showdown.
15-time nominee and 3-time winner Powell comes in with the 1950s London-set Living; 12-time nominee and 4-time winner Colleen Atwood as Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (she was a surprise win here in 2017 for the first FB film but missed a nom for the second); 11-time nominee and 3-time winner Beavan (who just won last year for Cruella) has Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a film about fashion once again (absolute Academy catnip; and Durran, an 8-time nominee and two-time winner, could do what no costume designer has been able to achieve yet, earn a nod for a Batman film. We’ll also have the possible return of Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter, the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, with the sequel to Black Panther. We’ll also have Catherine Martin, a two-time winner in this category for her husband Baz Luhrmann’s films, this year with the rollicking Elvis biopic, and Mark Bridges, a two-time winner back this year with The Fabelmans.
Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Costume Design for October.
1. Babylon – Mary Zophres (Paramount Pictures)
2. Living – Sandy Powell (Sony Pictures Classics)
3. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Jenny Beavan (Focus Features)
4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth E. Carter (Marvel Studios)
5. Elvis – Catherine Martin (Warner Bros)
6. The Fabelmans – Mark Bridges (Universal Pictures)
7. The Woman King – Gersha Phillips (Tri-Star)
8. Till – Marci Rodgers (UAR)
9. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros)
10. The Batman – Jacqueline Durran (Warner Bros)
Other contenders (alphabetical)
All Quiet on the Western Front – Lisy Christl (Netflix)
Amsterdam – J.R. Hawbaker and Albert Wolsky (20th Century Studios)
The Banshees of Inisherin – Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (Searchlight Pictures)
Bardo, or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Anna Terrazas (Netlfix)
Blonde – Jennifer Johnson (Netflix)
Corsage – Monika Buttinger (IFC Films)
Death on the Nile – Paco Delgado (20th Century Studios)
Downton Abbey: A New Era – Maja Meschede and Anna Robbins (Focus Features)
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Shirley Kurata (A24)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Charles Antoinette Jones (Columbia Pictures)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Emma Fryer (Netflix)
The Northman – Linda Muir (Focus Features)
Three Thousand Years of Longing – Kym Barrett (MGM)
Women Talking – Quita Alfred (UAR/Orion Pictures)
The Wonder – Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Netflix)
Photo by Annette Brown/Marvel Studios
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