Academy Award for Best Costume Design

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

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instanceOf Academy Award category
film award
administeredBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
surface form: Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
alsoKnownAs Academy Award for Best Costume Design
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: 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, United States
surface form: California

Los Angeles
mediaTypeOfCoverage online streaming
television broadcast
notableMultipleWinners Sandy Powell
surface form: Colleen Atwood

Edith Head
Sandy Powell
organizer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
partOf Academy Award
surface form: 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 Art Direction
surface form: 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

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