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Costume Designers Guild Awards 2010
13th CDG Awards February 22, 2011 ---- Contemporary:'' Black Swan '' ---- Period:'' The King's Speech '' ---- Fantasy:'' Alice in Wonderland '' The 13th Costume Designers Guild Awards, honoring the best costume designs in film and television for 2010, were given on February 22, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The nominees were announced on January 21, 2011. Nominees Film Contemporary Film: * Winner - Amy Westcott - ''Black Swan'' ** Michael Kaplan - ''Burlesque'' ** Jeffrey Kurland - '' Inception'' ** Jacqueline West - '' The Social Network'' ** Ellen Mirojnick - '' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'' Period Film: * Winner - Jenny Beavan - '' The King's Speech'' ** Mark Bridges - '' The Fighter'' ** Mary Zophres - '' True Grit'' Fantasy Film: * Winner - Colleen Atwood - ''Alice in Wonderland'' ** Sandy Powell - '' The Tempest'' ** Michael Wilkinson and Christine Bieselin Clark - '' Tron: Legacy'' Television Made for Television Movie or Miniseries: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costume Design
Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the artistic, visual world which is unique to a particular theatrical or cinematic production. The most basic designs are produced to denote status, provide protection or modesty, or provide visual interest to a character. Costumes may be for a theater, cinema, musical performance, cosplay, parties, or other events. Costume design should not be confused with costume coordination which merely involves altering existing clothing, although both create stage clothes. Four types of costumes are used in theatrical design: historical, fantastical, dance, and modern. History Ancient Greek village festivals and processions in honor of Dionysus (See also: Dionysia) are believed to be the origin of theatre, and therefore theatre costume. Sculpture and vas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Powell (costume Designer)
Sandy Powell (born 7 April 1960) is a British costume designer. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design fifteen times, winning three awards for the films ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998), '' The Aviator'' (2004), and ''The Young Victoria'' (2009). She has also received fifteen BAFTA Award nominations, winning for ''Velvet Goldmine'' (1998), ''The Young Victoria'', and ''The Favourite'' (2018). Powell has been a frequent collaborator with directors Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes, having designed the costumes for seven of Scorsese's films and four of Haynes's. Early life Powell was born in London in 1960, and grew up in Brixton and Clapham. Her father worked in casinos, while her mother was a secretary. Powell learned to sew from her mother on a Singer sewing machine, drew pictures of clothes, designed and made outfits for her dolls, and started making her own clothes from a young age. She also developed an interest in film and theatre from an early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Family
''Modern Family'' is an American family sitcom television series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for 11 seasons, from September 23, 2009, to April 8, 2020. It follows the lives of three diverse family set-ups in suburban Los Angeles, linked by patriarch Jay Pritchett. Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own "modern families." ''Modern Family'' employs an ensemble cast and is presented in a mockumentary style, with the characters frequently speaking directly to the camera in confessional interview segments. The series was renewed for an eleventh and final season on February 5, 2019, which premiered on September 25, 2019. The series finale aired on April 8, 2020. ''Modern Family'' was acclaimed by critics throughout its first few seasons. Its critical reception became more mixed as it progressed, but it maintained a loyal fan base throughout its 11 seasons and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With The Stars
''Dancing with the Stars'' is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing'', which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to 60 territories. Versions have also been produced in dozens of countries across the world. As a result, the series became the world's most popular television programme among all genres in 2006 and 2007, according to the magazine ''Television Business International'', reaching the Top 10 in 17 countries. The show pairs a number of well known celebrities with professional ballroom dancers, who each week compete by performing one or more choreographed routines that follow the prearranged theme for that particular week. The dancers are then scored by a panel of judges. Viewers are given a certain amount of time to place votes for their favorite dancers, either by telephone or (in some countries) online. The couple with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Love
''Big Love'' is an American drama television series that aired on HBO from March 12, 2006 to March 20, 2011. It stars Bill Paxton as the patriarch of a fundamentalist Mormon family in contemporary Utah that practices polygamy, with Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin portraying his wives. The series charts the family's life in and out of the public sphere in their Salt Lake City suburb, as well as their associations with a fundamentalist compound in the area. It features key supporting performances from Amanda Seyfried, Grace Zabriskie, Daveigh Chase, Matt Ross, Mary Kay Place, Bruce Dern, Melora Walters, and Harry Dean Stanton. The series premiered in the United States on March 12, 2006, following the sixth-season premiere of the HBO series ''The Sopranos''. ''Big Love'' was a success for HBO, running for five seasons before concluding its run on March 20, 2011. ''Big Love'' received widespread critical acclaim, and earned several major awards and nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glee (TV Series)
''Glee'' (stylized as ''glee'') is an American musical film, musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015. It centers on the glee club called the New Directions at the fictional William McKinley High School which competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding human sexuality, sexuality, Race (human classification), race, family, teen relationships and teamwork. The initial twelve-member cast included Matthew Morrison as club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester, Jane Lynch as scheming cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Jessalyn Gilsig as Will's wife Terri Schuester, Terri, and the eight original club members, including Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray, a popular cheerleader whose biggest struggle is her teenage pregnancy; Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel, a gay boy who feels co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Eyrich
Lou A. Eyrich ( ; born New Ulm, Minnesota) is a costume designer best known for her work in the television series ''Glee'' and '' American Horror Story: Asylum.'' In 2012, she was awarded a Career Achievement Award in Television from the Costume Designers Guild. In 2010 and 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Costumes for a Series category for her work on ''Glee,'' work that was also given awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012 by the Costume Designers Guilde for in the Outstanding Contemporary Television Series. Her work on '' American Horror Story: Asylum'' received an award from the Costume Designers Guild in the Outstanding Made for TV Movie or Mini Series category in 2013, and her work on '' American Horror Story: Freak Show'' was nominated in the same category in 2015. More recently, Eyrich designed the costumes for the FX series ''Feud,'' which depicts the Hollywood rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis between 1963 and 1978. Eyrich is a surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Don't Know Jack (film)
''You Don't Know Jack'' is a 2010 American made-for-television biopic written by Adam Mazer and directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Al Pacino, John Goodman, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon, and Brenda Vaccaro. The film dramatizes the efforts of former Oakland County, Michigan, pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Pacino) to help the terminally ill and the profoundly disabled end their lives. The outspoken Kevorkian becomes a polarizing figure and he is often referred to as "Dr. Death" in the press. He is assisted by his sister Margo Janus (Vaccaro), his longtime friend and medical technician Neal Nicol (Goodman), and Janet Good (Sarandon), who founded the eastern Michigan chapter of the Hemlock Society. By accepted accounts, he aided 130 people to die. Kevorkian is unsuccessfully tried four times, but after taking an unprecedented direct role in the August 1998 death of his final patient, Thomas Youk, he is convicted of second degree murder and is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in pris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Ryack
Rita Ryack is a costume designer who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 73rd Academy Awards for her work in ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. She was also nominated for a Tony Award at the 37th Tony Awards for '' My One and Only'', and was nominated for the award again in 2014, for '' Casa Valentina''. She received a further nomination at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards for the film '' You Don't Know Jack''. Career Rita Ryack was born in Houston, Texas. She received her BFA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and later her MFA from Yale School of Drama. She began her work in the entertainment induesty as a cartoon animator for Lisberger Studios in Boston. Her first design job for the Broadway musical My One and Only, for which she earned her first Tony nomination. Throughout the years she has done costume design for a wide range of productions such as films like Hairspray, Casino, and Apollo 13, many on and off Broadway theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pacific (miniseries)
''The Pacific'' is a 2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010. The series is a companion piece to the 2001 miniseries '' Band of Brothers'' and focuses on the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War. Whereas ''Band of Brothers'' followed the men of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through the European Theater, ''The Pacific'' centers on the experiences of three Marines ( Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone) who were in different regiments ( 1st, 5th, and 7th, respectively) of the 1st Marine Division. ''The Pacific'' was spearheaded by Bruce C. McKenna (co-executive producer), one of the main writers on ''Band of Brothers.'' Hugh Ambrose, the son of '' Band of Brothers'' author Stephen Ambrose, served as a project consultant. ''The Pacific'' miniseries features the 1st Marine Division's bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Grandin (film)
''Temple Grandin'' is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, a woman with autism whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs ''Emergence'' and '' Thinking in Pictures''. The film premiered on HBO on February 6, 2010, and won several awards including five Primetime Emmy Awards, and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild prizes for Danes. Plot Temple Grandin is an uncommunicative child who is prone to tantrums and is diagnosed with autism. The medical consensus at that time was that autism was a form of schizophrenia resulting from insufficient maternal affection. Despite recommendations to place her in an institution, Grandin's mother hires therapists and works to help her daughter adapt to social interaction. As a teenager, Temple travels to her aunt and uncle's ranch to work. She obse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legacy
In law, a legacy is something held and transferred to someone as their inheritance, as by will and testament. Personal effects, family property, marriage property or collective property gained by will of real property. Legacy or legacies may refer to: Arts, media and entertainment Comics * " Batman: Legacy", a 1996 Batman storyline * '' DC Universe: Legacies'', a comic book series from DC Comics written by Len Wein * ''Legacy'', a 1999 quarterly series from Antarctic Press * ''Legacy'', a 2003–2005 series released by Dabel Brothers Productions * Legacy, an alternate name for the DC supervillain Wizard who leads the Injustice Society IV team * Legacy (Marvel Comics), an alias used by Genis-Vell, better known as Captain Marvel * Legacy Virus, a fictional virus from the Marvel Universe * Marvel Legacy, a comic book line introduced in 2017 * '' Star Wars: Legacy'', a 2006 series from Dark Horse * '' X-Men: Legacy'', a 1991 series from Marvel Comics Film * ''Legacy'', a 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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