35 days til Oscar

Edith Head is our icon of the day. She was nominated for 35 Oscars for Best Costume Design with an astounding run from 1948 through 1966 wherein she was nominated every consecutive season. It helped that they used to split the category into black & white / color (thus allowing 10 nominees per year)...

We've long wondered if maybe they ought to split them again. This time into Period/Fantay and Contemporary. Otherwise modern films just aren't recognized.  It will be a crying shame to watch Hustler's Aughts fashions denied in just a matter of days over less inspired period work. 

WHICH OF EDITH HEAD'S NOMINATIONS ARE YOUR FAVOURITE?

• The Emperor's Waltz (1948)
• The Heiress (1949) ★
• Samson and Delilah (1950) ★
• All About Eve (1950) ★
• A Place in the Sun (1951) ★
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• Carrie (1952)
• Roman Holiday (1953) ★
• Sabrina (1954) ★
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Rose Tattoo (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• The Proud and the Profane (1956)
• Funny Face (1957)
• The Buccanr (1958)
• The Five Pennies (1959)
• Pepe (1960)
• The Facts of Life (1960) ★
• Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
• My Geisha (1962)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• A New Kind of Love (1963)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
• What a Way to Go! (1964)
• A House is Not a Home (1964)
• Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• The Oscar (1966)
• Sweet Charity (1969)
• Airport (1970)
• The Sting (1973) ★
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
• Airport '77 (1977)

Comments

[MJ]

Tough to narrow down such a sterling body of work, but I’d go with All About Eve & The Heiress of the nominated bunch (w/ Vertigo as my ultimate pick).

[Tom G]

That peacock dress from Samson and Delilah was incredible.

[James from Ames]

I haven’t seen enough to pick a favorite, but am perennially thankful for the general male shirtlessness in Ten Commandments. Why hello, John Derek ...

[Travis]

Roman Holiday, but also The Heiress and All About Eve

[Claran]

Her win for Sabrina is considered controversial now. Audrey had wore most o the frocks in tt film designed by Givenchy, but as he was a newbie then, he was not credited along w Head n was omitted in the studio submission to the Academy.

Audrey was so outraged by this snub, she makes sure tt Givenchy was properly credited in all het subsequent films.

Thus, he shares the Funny Face nom w Head in 1957.

[Edward L.]

Legend.

[Jenny]

The Slender Thread (1965). Just for being mentioned at all.

[Till]

Till

[markgordonuk]

Airport 77 for Lee Grant's jewellry.

[Dave in Hollywood]

The Ten Commandments and What A Way To Go are in a way ALL about the costumes. I wonder who she lost to for those?

[RobMiles]

One word - VERTIGO