AWARDS ORIGINALS

BEST COSTUME DESIGN, MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

 

Awards Spotlight: Inside Llewyn Davis’ Mary Zophres on Being “The Luckiest Costume Designer in Hollywood”

Joel and Ethan Coen have worked with Zophres exclusively since Fargo in 1995. Their collaboration has thus far led to Zophres’s first Oscar nomination for True Grit in 2011.With her masterly work in the Coens’ Inside Llewyn Davis, in which she captures a sartorial snapshot of the 1950s transitioning into the 1960s, she’s being discussed for another one. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: American Hustle’s Michael Wilkinson on Designing Costumes with 70′s Glamour & “Sinatra-Esque Appeal”

As Zack Snyder’s go-to costume designer, Wilkinson redesigned Superman’s iconic costume in this year’s Man of Steel, and it’s also his job to outfit Ben Affleck as he suits up. Wilkinson is responsible for creating the costumes in American Hustle, a real-life story set against the backdrop of the late ‘70s, bringing a sense of reality to the proceedings. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘The Invisible Woman’ Costume Designer Michael O’Connor on Fabricating the World of Dickens, “It’s Like a Dream.”

British costume designer Michael O’Connor won for his work on The Duchess in 2009, and was nominated again in 2012 for Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre. Along the way, he’s designed costumes for films as diverse as The Last King of Scotland, Dredd, and the upcoming Suite Francaise. He’s now on the awards radar for his work on director and star Ralph Fiennes’ visually sumptuous, 19^th century love story, The Invisible Woman. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Key Makeup Dept. Head Dave Anderson Talks Klingons, Delivering Under Pressure & “Watermelon Head”

Anderson, himself a two-time Oscar winner for The Nutty Professor and Men in Black, discusses his work on the Star Trek sequel as he and his 87-person staff made each and every member of Starfleet look like dynamite, including a little-known crew member who holds a special place in Anderson’s heart. (SSN)

Oscar Analysis Part One: Fox Films Blended Box Office & Award Sensibility to Sweet Success

From the 2010 to 2012 Oscars, 20^th Century Fox was nominated for a total of 36 awards. But then along comes 2013, a year in which Fox racked up an astonishing 31 nominations, the most of any studio and almost as many as the previous three years combined. (SSN)

OTHER ORIGINALS

 

Rest in Fictional Peace – The Top 6 Characters We’ll Miss on TV

(Spoilers alert!) Once a nuclear-option plot twist, the death of a major character has suddenly become commonplace, with at least a dozen lead or central roles getting the axe in just the past few months. SSN looks at the deaths of major characters this season. (SSN)

On The Set For 12/9/13: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Sequel' Starts

SSN’s weekly report on the latest films to start and wrap production. (SSN)