‘Fantastic Beasts’ Nominated for Costume Designers Guild Award

Jan 13, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

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The Costume Designers Guild recognized Award-winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, for creating the exquisite 1920s New York City fashion of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Atwood is nominated twice this year in the “Excellence in Fantasy Film” category for her work on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Fantastic Beasts. Atwood has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design 11 times, winning three times for Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood

As Leaky reported here from a Pottermore interview with Atwood just prior to the premiere of Fantastic Beasts, her success can be attributed to her commitment to the integrity of her costumes and her remarkable attention to detail.

“She’s always on the set making sure they’re perfect…She is utterly devoted to the way fabric falls on her subjects.”

According to another recent LA Times article on Atwood’s designs:

“Her enhanced versions of period clothing amplify character traits — menace, flamboyance, innocence. That’s the costume designer’s kind of magic, a design sleight of hand that reveals secrets of personality lurking in the cloth.”

Regarding her own creative process on this J.K. Rowling’s film, Atwood said:

“I read the script and I see the worlds that I’m going to be filtering through as the story progresses…In this case, it was New York and all sorts of levels of society so we researched the Lower East Side and Upper West Side, Hell’s Kitchen and all the immigrant populations there, the elegance and the aristocrats of New York. I was familiar with the period. I did Chicago a long time ago and it’s sort of the same era. I reread a couple of [F Scott] Fitzgerald books, which are always fun to go back to because he’s very descriptive about the frenzy and the romance of the period. It has so much heart that it’s helped me, and this story has so much heart.”

Newt Scamander in New York City

Atwood and her department rented, purchased, or made up to 5,000 costumes for the stars and approximately 3,500 extras on set over the filming of Fantastic Beasts. In addition to the wizarding wardrobe, numerous genuine vintage items, such as flapper dresses, overcoats, and 1920s accoutrements, were acquired. When necessary, they were created from scratch.

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, the winner of one of the CDG Awards categories, Excellence in Contemporary, Period or Fantasy Film, went on to win the Oscar for costume design during the past ten years. Four times it went to the winner of the period film category, and twice the Oscar was awarded to the fantasy film winner.

The 19th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony is scheduled for February 21, 2017 and will be hosted by This Is Us star Mandy Moore.

Click here to read the November 2016 Pottermore article on Colleen Atwood. Click here for an LA Times article describing the aesthetic of each of the main Fantastic Beasts characters.

See below for the complete list of nominees:

Excellence in Contemporary Film

“Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” – Rebecca Hale

“Captain Fantastic” – Courtney Hoffman

“La La Land” – Mary Zophres

“Lion” – Cappi Ireland

“Nocturnal Animals” – Arianne Phillips

Excellence in Period Film

“The Dressmaker” – Marion Boyce, Margot Wilson

“Florence Foster Jenkins” – Consolata Boyle

“Hail, Caesar!” – Mary Zophres

“Hidden Figures” – Renee Ehrlich Kalfus

“Jackie” – Madeline Fontaine

Excellence in Fantasy Film

“Doctor Strange” – Alexandra Byrne

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” – Colleen Atwood

“Kubo and the Two Strings” – Deborah Cook

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” – Colleen Atwood

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” – David Crossman, Glyn Dillion

Outstanding Contemporary Television Series

“American Horror Story: Roanoke” – Lou Eyrich, Helen Huang

“Empire” – Paolo Nieddu

“Grace & Frankie” – Allyson B. Fanger

“House of Cards” – Johanna Argan, Kemal Harris

“Transparent” – Marie Schley

Outstanding Period Television Series

“The Crown” – Michele Clapton

“Penny Dreadful” – Gabriella Pescucci

“Stranger Things” (series) – Kimberly Adams, Malgosia Turzanska

“Westworld” (pilot) – Trish Summerville

“Westworld” (Series) – Ane Crabtree

Outstanding Fantasy Television Series

“Game of Thrones” – Michele Clapton, April Ferry

“The Man in the High Castle” – J.R. Hawbaker

“Once Upon a Time” – Eduardo Castro

“Sleepy Hollow” – Mairi Chisholm

“The Walking Dead” – Eulyn C. Womble

Excellence in Short Form Design

Beyoncé: “Hold Up” – B. Åkerlund

Dos Equis: “The Most Interesting Man in the World – Mission to Mars” – Julie Vogel

Dos Equis: “The New Most Interesting Man in the World Traverses the Sand and the Serengeti” – Liz Botes

H&M: “Come Together” featuring Adrien Brody, directed by Wes Anderson – Milena Canonero

Pepsi: “Momotaro” Episode Four, featuring Jude Law — Ami Goodheart

 





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