23 Days Until Oscar - Your Vote For Costume Design?
Friday, February 3, 2017 at 10:30AM This year's costume design lineup is a mix of three two time nominees (Johnston, previously nominated for Lincoln, Boyle, previously nominated for The Queen, and Zophres, previously nominated for True Grit), one of Oscar's all time favorites (three time winner Atwood), and the new-to-Oscar Madeline Fontaine from France who designed the costumes of Jackie and was previously best known for costuming French pictures like Amelie and Yves Saint Laurent.
Who would you vote for and who do you think might win?
This category doesn't feel entirely easy to predict this year. La La Land will surely win at least a handful of Oscars but will Costume Design be one of them? Zophres does simplicity beautifully but Oscar voters tend to prefer Most to Best. Johnston probably wins the "most beautiful costumes" prize for the very Old Hollywood stylish Allied but she's the only nominee whose film has no support from other branches so she seems unlikely.
Reader Comments (35)
My mind says Zophres, my gut says Fontaine. Hard to resist those Jackie period costumes.
Mary Zophres costumes are precise and a highlight of La La Land to me, so I want to say she'll get her Oscar. But my gut says they will go with Madeline Fontaine for Jackie.
Consolata Boyle in Florence Foster Jenkins would have my vote.
Johnston for turning Pitt & Cortillard into 40s MOVIE STARS!!!
Esp that flowy satin dress....so gorgeous & sensuous!!
I'd go with Fontaine for both should and will win. The last few years, there does seem to be a trend of "spreading the wealth," and it has been less likely for bigger films to go completely unrewarded. So if the'yre not going to award Jackie with a Best Actress prize, this is the place they'd be able to recognize it.
The fact that Mad Max won last year over more seemingly traditional Oscar winners (Cinderella) - I'm predicting La La Land.
My vote is Fontaine.
Sometimes designers get carried away making period outfits look fierce and flattering by today's standards, or so immaculate that they're not realistic. I loved the creases in Jackie's satin dresses (from sitting) and how that pink suit looked a little frumpy to the modern eye—because it does! Some of it wasn't perfectly fitted, etc. Very real.
It's a bold move to make Jackie Kennedy look (not just vintage and glamorous) but dated in the ways she *should* look dated. She didn't rely on 1:1 replicas and she didn't do "Jackie Kennedy translated for 2016." It was an honest, objective rendering of what Jackie's wardrobe must have looked like at the time. She wasn't subjectively reimagined as more impeccable than she was at 34, with what we know about her later Jackie O style.
I for one would be totally fine with ANY of these lovely ladies winning. I'm not entirely sure Atwood needs another Oscar, but there's something to recommend the costuming in each of these films.
Johnston and Zophres are contenders, and I give Fontaine an outside shot.
Fontaine for Jackie.
Gotta go with Fontaine.
Fontaine.
But Atwood would be nice for me to.
Would definitely pick Fontaine for Jackie as my personal vote. I'm really praying La La Land doesn't totally sweep, so I'm going to say Fontaine nabs the Oscar too.
Fontaine definitely deserves it, but I'm bracing for an out-of-control La La Land sweep.
I agree with V. -- the costumes are a huge part of what made La La Land special.
Fontaine, but La La Land will win.
I'd vote for Zophres, but this is my favorite category of nominees. Part of the love I have for La La Land was seeing what they were going to wear next. Anyways I do believe that the costumes for the other nominees are all wonderful. If I'm honest my second favorite costumes were from Fantastic Beasts.
1. Fontaine
2. Atwood (there are good reasons why she's a default nominee)
3. Johnston
4. Boyle
5. Zophres
Zophres deserves it, imo. Beautiful, memorable design. The yellow dress is my favorite work this year.
I'm pulling for Fontaine's eye for detail in Jackie, though I have no problem with Zophres winning for her big bold strokes in La La Land. Kubo and the Two Strings would have been my pick to win, but Debra Cook didn't get in for it.
Since this category is always sucker for period pieces, i say Florence Foster Jenkins, and it'd be deserving, beause Boyle's work is tremendously good
Fontaine - JACKIE
Amazing work!
"La La Land"
Mary Zophres for La La Land. She needs something for all of those years of hard work. Especially w/ the Coen Brothers as she is one of their key collaborators.
I think La La Land misses this one. My gut is saying Fontaine.
Fontaine for Jackie. No contest but that LLL express may not stop until the acting categories. Someday people will be rolling their eyes about Moonlight not winning Best Picture (and being nominated next to mediocrities like HACKsaw Ridge and Hidden Figures and Lion and fluff like LLL).
Fontaine!
It's still going to be hard to beat last year's perfect win.
ABCA -- Anyone But Colleen Atwood.
Sorry I used to love her to bits but her work lately has been... shall we say, uninspired. Harry Potter 9 included, ugh.
I think LLL will take this and cinematography but not production design. Zophres has never won so that might put her over the edge here, in a BP nominee.
J A C K I E
Zophres, but I'll pretend she is winning for hew wondrous work in Hail Ceaser
My Heart: Madeline Fontaine
My Head: Mary Zophres
Mary zophres for la la land
If voters are watching JACKIE to get a look at Natalie's performance, I suspect they'll come away from it wanting to reward these costumes. I suppose the same could be said for FLORENCE, but the film has been out so long I'm not sure anyone's going to watch it again. The costumes in LA LA LAND aren't very memorable, are they?
I'm going to predict Fontaine for JACKIE.
I agree with Mark the First, anyone but Colleen Atwood. Now I love her work but her designs in Fantastic Creatures are nothing special in fact she seemed to just phone it in. The one I want to win is Allied but I am sure that Jackie will take home the Oscar as it has already won the Satellite and the Critic's Choice Awards.
I'm just looking at the sketches and final costumes for Fantastic Beasts and there's "phoned in" about them. In fact, most of those looks are amazing. The only reason I'm not rooting for Atwood is the so-called fatigue, but she would be totally deserving once again this year. I really want Fontaine to win, though.