Academy Award for Best Costume Design

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Academy Award category film award

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is a prestigious Oscar category honoring outstanding achievement in film costume creation and styling.

Aliases (7)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Academy Award category → film award →
administeredBy	Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
alsoKnownAs	Oscar for Best Costume Design →
awardedFor	costume design in a specific film year →
awardingFrequency	once per year →
categoryType	craft award →
ceremonyType	annual →
country	United States →
criterion	excellence in costume styling → excellence in film costume creation → outstanding achievement in costume design →
domain	film industry →
eligibleWorks	feature films →
field	costume design →
firstAwardedForYear	1948 →
firstWinners	Edward Stevenson → Roger K. Furse →
firstWinningFilm	Hamlet (1948 film) → Joan of Arc (1948 film) →
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.oscars.org →
hasSubcategoryHistory	separate awards for black-and-white and color films (historical) →
historicalChange	black-and-white and color categories merged into a single category →
historicalNote	originally split into Best Costume Design – Black-and-White and Best Costume Design – Color →
inception	1948 →
languageOfCeremony	English →
locatedInJurisdiction	California → Los Angeles →
mediaTypeOfCoverage	online streaming → television broadcast →
notableMultipleWinners	Colleen Atwood → Edith Head → Sandy Powell →
organizer	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
partOf	Academy Awards →
presentedAt	Academy Awards ceremony →
presentedBy	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
relatedCategory	Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling → Academy Award for Best Production Design →
relatedTo	film fashion → film set design →
reward	Oscar statuette →
scope	international films released in the United States →
selectionMethod	voting by Academy members →
significance	one of the major craft categories at the Oscars →
status	active →
typicalNomineesPerYear	5 →
votingBody	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members →

Referenced by (60)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Star Is Born (1954 film) → Allied → An Affair to Remember → Dreamgirls → Dune (2021 film) → Elizabeth → Gosford Park → How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film) → La La Land → Quills → Revolutionary Road → Sandy Powell → Sense and Sensibility (1995 film) → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) → The Addams Family (1991 film) → The Danish Girl → The Dresser → The Godfather → The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Greatest Show on Earth (1952 film) ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color") → The Lion in Winter → The Queen → True Grit (2010 film) → Viva Zapata! ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design – Black-and-White") →	nominatedFor
A Room with a View (1985 film) → Ben-Hur → Black Panther → Chariots of Fire → Edith Head → Gladiator → Hamlet (1948 film) ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design – Black-and-White") → Henry V (1989 film) ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination") → Karinska → Mad Max: Fury Road → Roman Holiday ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White") → Shakespeare in Love → Some Like It Hot ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White") → Spartacus (1960 film) ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color") → The Aviator → The English Patient → The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Great Gatsby (1974 film) → The Young Victoria →	awardReceived
Elizabeth: The Golden Age ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination") → Elizabeth: The Golden Age ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design win") → Joan of Arc (1948 film) ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color") → Ma Rainey's Black Bottom →	award
Into the Woods (2014 film) → Mary Poppins Returns → Nine (2009 film) → Oscar and Lucinda →	awardNomination
Doctor Zhivago ("Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Color)") → The Artist → The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King →	academyAward
Fiddler on the Roof →	academyAwardNominations
Academy Award for Best Costume Design ("Oscar for Best Costume Design") →	alsoKnownAs
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →	awardsPresented
Sandy Powell →	hasWon
The Godfather Part II →	nominations
Malcolm X (1992 film) →	notableAwardNomination