on the set of THE CURRENT WARCutting right to the chase tonight. Here's what I'm predicting for Oscar's Costume Design category in this first round of punditry
• The Current War (Michael Wilkinson)
• The Greatest Showman (Ellen Mirojnick)
• Murder on the Orient Express (Alexandra Byrne)
• Victoria & Abdul (Consolata Boyle)
• Wonderstruck (Sandy Powell)
Sandy Powell is always a good bet of course with 12 past nominations and 3 wins and she'll obviously be having a great time with the dual time frames and actressing of Julianne Moore. The other designers are less regular with the Academy but they've all been nominated with the exception of Ellen Mirojnick. But Mirojnick is no slouch having designed iconic pieces seen in films like Basic Instinct, Showgirls, and recently she won the Emmy for Soderbergh's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra. She's got one of the year's (presumably) showiest gigs : Hugh Jackman's PT Barnum musical The Greatest Showman.
Ali Fasal stars opposite Dame Judi Dench in VICTORIA AND ABDUL
But that's just scratching the surface of what will surely be lots of fine threads in the movies this year from many talented designers. After the jump, a Beauty Break of Costume Design possibilities this year...
SOME COSTUME HEAVY MOVIES TO LOOK FORWARD TO...
THE BEGUILED - costumes by Stacey Battat (Still Alice, The Bling Ring)
WONDERSTRUCK - costumes by Sandy Powell (abundant Martin Scorsese & Todd Haynes classics)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - costumes by Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
MARY MAGDALENE - costumes by Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina, Atonement)
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN - costumes by Odile Dicks Mireaux (Brooklyn, An Education)
BATTLE OF THE SEXES - costumes by Mary Zophres (La La Land, True Grit)
DARK TOWER - costumes by Trish Summerville (Gone Girl, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
WOMAN WALKS AHEAD -costumes by Stephanie Collie (Layer Cake, London Has Fallen)
WONDER WOMAN - costumes by Lindy Hemming (Topsy Turvy, The Dark Knight)
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - costumes by Renée April (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Arrival)
MY COUSIN RACHEL - costumes by Dinah Collin (The Ghost Writer, The Bourne Supremacy)
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS - costumes by Olivier Bériot (Lucy, The Diving Bell and Butterfly)
ON CHESIL BEACH - costumes by Keith Madden (The Woman in Black)
MARSHALL - costumes by Ruth E Carter (Selma, Amistad)
first stabs at predictions
CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN
SCORE, SOUND
VISUAL EFFECTS, MAKEUP
ANIMATED FEATURE