A Century of Film

Costume Design

Costumes have been important since the early days of cinema.  Imagine what some of the classic silent films like Intolerance or Hunchback of Notre Dame would have looked like without good costumes.  But once Technicolor arrived and things could really pop on-screen costumes went to a whole new level.  So it’s completely ridiculous that the Academy waited until 1948 before giving out an award for the category; they missed out entirely on the career of one of film’s greatest designers in Adrian and missed the chance to heap another award on Gone with the Wind (even if my own award goes to Wizard of Oz).

But, the Academy did finally come around in 1948 even if other awards groups would take much longer.  Since then, they’ve often done a good job (read the note after my Top 5) and think of some of the costumes through history that have made a film so memorable, from the brilliant work in Amadeus to the green dress in Atonement.

My Top 5 Costumes in Film History:

  1. Amadeus
  2. Dangerous Liaisons
  3. Barry Lyndon
  4. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  5. Marie Antoinette

This is the rare category where I don’t have to spend any time debating what my #1 pick is all-time.  It’s interesting that all five of these films won the Oscar (as, of course, they all deserved to) but all five of them lost at the BAFTAs which I find to be really strange.

The other 9 Point Films (chronological):

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Children of Paradise
  • La Belle et la bete
  • Seven Samurai
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Tom Jones
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • The Godfather
  • Chinatown
  • The Godfather Part II
  • Kagemusha
  • Ragtime
  • Fanny & Alexander
  • Ran
  • A Room with a View
  • The Last Emperor
  • The Princess Bride
  • Henry V
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • Glory
  • Dick Tracy
  • Howards End
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Interview with the Vampire
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Hamlet
  • Titanic
  • Elizabeth
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Topsy-Turvy
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Moulin Rouge
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Gangs of New York
  • Hero
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Aviator
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • Perfume – The Story of a Murderer
  • Anna Karenina

note:  I rate all aspects of film on a 9 point scale.  They also correspond to the 100 point scale for Best Picture.  Films above *** (76-99) all land on the scale.  1 point is for 76-79, just worth mentioning.  2 points is for 80-83, a weak mention, 3 points is for 84-87, near great, 4 points is for 88-89 (which is ****), a solid nominee, 5 points is for 90-91, a very solid nominee, 6 points is for 92-93, a weak winner, a 7 points is for 94-95, a worthwhile winner, 8 points is 96-97, the kind of winner you can’t complain about even if it’s not your #1 choice and 9 points is for 98-99, the very best of all-time.  The above list are my 9 point films for Sound through 2011, listed chronologically.

The Designers

Adrian

For over a decade Adrian was the primary costume designer for MGM, including the Nighthawk winning work in The Wizard of Oz as well as 12 other Nighthawk nominees, several of which are listed below.  But he left MGM in 1941 and did very little film work after that and the problem is that the Oscars, as mentioned above, didn’t start giving an award for Costume Design until 1948.  So he didn’t receive a single Oscar nomination but he’s third in Nighthawk points, earning more points in the 30s than any designer in any decade since.
Key Films:  The Wizard of Oz, Pride and Prejudice, Marie Antoinette, The Great Waltz

Edith Head

Famous enough that They Might Be Giants wrote a song about her and Brad Bird modeled the great Edna Mode upon her, Head was worshipped by the Academy.  She worked for Paramount for 40 years and earned an Oscar nomination in the first 19 years the category existed.  She dominated the category at the Oscars to the extent that by the 11th year of the category (1958) she would already have more points than any other designer in history still through the present and by 1973 would have over twice as many points as any other designer has yet earned.  That said, she worked mostly in gowns, which I don’t give as many points to, so while she does well at the Nighthawks (top 5 for points, weighted points and absolute points), she’s not as dominant as she was at the Oscars (and she was mostly done before the other groups started giving awards).
Key Films:  The Heiress, The Sting, The Man Who Would Be King, Carrie

Irene Sharaff

Winner of five Oscars and second all-time in Oscar points (which still leaves her with less than half of Head’s total).  She missed out at the Oscars because she did great work just before the category began (she earns seven Nighthawk nominations from 1942 to 1946).  She dominates the Nighthawk Awards.  She only wins once (Gaslight) but earns a whopping 14 nominations.
Key Films:  Gaslight, The King and I, Hello Dolly, Brigadoon

Walter Plunkett

He never won a Nighthawk and his one Oscar was for An American in Paris but he almost certainly would have won the Oscar for Gone with the Wind if the category had existed.  He earns 11 Nighthawk nominations in all as well as 10 Oscar nominations.
Key Films:  Gone with the Wind, Singin in the Rain, Lust for Life, Show Boat

Phyllis Dalton

Greatly under-appreciated by the Academy in spite of winning two Oscars (Doctor Zhivago, Henry V), earning just one other nom (Oliver).  But she also did work for such great costumes as Lawrence of Arabia, Princess Bride, Much Ado About Nothing and Dead Again.
Key Films:  GoodFellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, The Aviator

Colleen Atwood

Atwood and Powell have been the two contenders for best costume designer at work over the last 20 years.  Through 2011, Atwood is in the Top 10 at the Nighthawks, 7th at the Oscars, 2nd at the BAFTAs and 1st at the CDG (by a mile).  She won three Nighthawks in just six years from 2005 to 2010.
Key Films:  Memoirs of a Geisha, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, Chicago, Sleepy Hollow

Sandy Powell

Powell has also win three Nighthawks and she and Atwood won back to back in 2009 and 2010.  Through 2011, Powell is third at the Nighthawks, 6th at the Oscars, 1st at the BAFTAs and tied for 2nd at the CDG.  What’s more, neither designer is showing any signs of slowing.  It’s a question of which will finally be the first designer to reach 330 Oscars points and finally cut Head’s lead down to less than a factor of two.
Key Films:  Interview with the Vampire, Aviator, Young Victoria, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York

The Academy Awards

Summary:

Costumes took a surprisingly long time to be acknowledged by the Academy.  It wasn’t until 1948 that they finally thought to give it a category (by which point one of the first great costume designers, Adrian, had already stopped working in film), though they immediately split it and gave two awards, which they continued to do with the exceptions of 1957 and 1958 until 1966.  It started as a smaller category (two nominees each in 1948 and 1949, three each in 1950) before becoming a more regular category in 1951.

Costume Design has always been a category dominated by a few individuals and less open to the general work of others.  Of the 389 films nominated by the Academy, they have only nominated 179 different designers, a rate below every category except Cinematography and Score.  This is partially because the category mostly honors a single nominee, partially because few costume designers earn a single Oscar nomination with no other nominations (less than 40% – the fifth lowest category) and partially because of the dominance of a few individuals.

Edith Head, of course, dominated so much that she earned a nomination in each of the first 19 years of the category (her streak stopped when the categories were combined in 1967) and earned as many points just in the 1950s as any other designer has earned in Oscar history.  In fact, by 1958, Head already had more points that any other designer has even today and in 1970 she reached a point of more than double the points of any other designer, which is still the case today.

Today, of course, the category is all about the rivalry between Sandy Powell and Colleen Atwood.  Those two designers have, by 2011, already been nominated against each other six times.  In a bizarre bit of confluence, in all those six of those years one of those two won the Oscar (three each) but in the other combined six years that one has been nominated without the other, neither has won an Oscar.

While there were some big Oscar films before the category began (Gone with the Wind likely would have won, giving it a record ninth Oscar and 14th nomination) only two really big Oscar films (550+ points) have failed to earn a Costume Design nomination: On the Waterfront and Forrest Gump.

More can be found on the history of the category here.

Directors:

Four directors have won three Oscars each: Cukor, Fellini, Minnelli and Wyler.  Cukor’s eight nominations for his films leads the way.

Franchises:

The Godfather Part II would be the first sequel to earn a nomination.  The next year, The Four Musketeers and Funny Lady would earn nominations when the originals had not.  Airport 77 would inexplicably earn a nomination.  Several other sequels would also earn nominations before Return of the King finally became the first sequel to win the Oscar (ironically, when Fellowship had not).

Genres:

Drama has been by the most dominant genre, with just over half the wins and almost exactly half the nominations (one more than half).  Comedy and Musical are both in the teens for both noms and wins (Comedy is higher in wins while Musical is higher in noms).  No other genre has more than 5% of the wins or noms.  Fantasy and Horror are the only other genres with even multiple wins while Kids, Suspense and Western have never won.  Every genre has at least four nominations.

Best Picture:

Only twenty films have won both Picture and Costume Design in 64 years.  That number looks even less impressive when you consider that eight of them were in the first 19 years when it still had two winners a year (though All About Eve is really the only winner to benefit from that).  After that there was a 15 year stretch with only one winner (The Sting) and there have been nine (87-96) and eight (03-11) year gaps since then.  Another 13 Picture winners have earned Costume Design nominations.  In total, 106 films have been nominated for both Picture and Costume Design.

Foreign Films:

This has been a strong category for Foreign films starting with Gate of Hell winning Costume Design in 1954.  In total, 31 Foreign films have earned Costume Design nominations and seven of them winning the Oscar with three of them also winning Foreign Film (Gate of Hell, 8 1/2, Fanny and Alexander).

Single Nominations:

Though a lot of films have been nominated for Costume Design with no other nominations (92 which is an average of about 1.5 per year), only three films have won Costume Design without another nomination: Death on the Nile, Adventures of Priscilla, Marie Antoinette.  Most of the Oscar winners (67 out of 81) earn a nomination for Art Direction and 40 films have won both awards.

Other Categories:

Voters must like leading ladies in costumes because Actress has far more crossover than the other acting categories with six films winning both, 15 winning Actress with a Costume Design nom and a total of 77 films nominated in both categories.  But it’s the look of the film that really matters to voters.  The biggest crossovers by far are Art Direction (206 – over half of the films nominated for Costume Design with 40 winning both) and Cinematography (145 with 24 winning both awards).  Aside from Animated Film (no crossover obviously), the least is in Foreign (six films though three won both and five won Foreign) and Sound Editing (eight films nominated for both, three won both and the only film that was nominated for both and didn’t win either is True Grit).

The Academy Awards Top 10:

  1. Edith Head  –  645
  2. Irene Sharaff  –  300
  3. Charles LeMaire  –  285
  4. Jean Louis  –  225
  5. Dorothy Jeakins  –  225
  6. Sandy Powell  –  195
  7. Helen Rose  –  180
  8. Colleen Atwood  –  180
  9. Walter Plunkett  –  165
  10. Bill Thomas  /  Milena Canonero  –  165

note:  Wins are worth 30 points and nominations are worth 15.

Top 5 Oscar Winners:

  1. Amadeus
  2. Dangerous Liaisons
  3. Barry Lyndon
  4. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  5. Marie Antoinette

note:  This might be the only category in which my Top 5 All-Time all won the Oscar.

Worst 5 Oscar Winners:

  1. The Facts of Life
  2. Solid Gold Cadillac
  3. The Night of the Iguana
  4. I’ll Cry Tomorrow
  5. The Bad and the Beautiful

Worst 5 Oscar Nominees:

  1. Airport 77
  2. Airport
  3. The Swarm
  4. The Facts of Life
  5. Mother is a Freshman

Top 3 Oscar Years (Black and White):

  1. 1949  (Heiress, Prince of Foxes)
  2. 1953  (Roman Holiday, From Here to Eternity, Actress, Dream Wife, President’s Lady)
  3. 1955  (I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Ugetsu, Pickwick Papers, Queen Bee, Rose Tattoo)

Top 3 Oscar Years (Color):

  1. 1964  (My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Becket, Unsinkable Molly Brown, What a Way to Go)
  2. 1956  (King and I, Around the World in 80 Days, War and Peace, Giant, 10 Commandments)
  3. 1965  (Doctor Zhivago, Agony and the Ecstasy, Sound of Music, Greatest Story Ever Told, Inside Daisy Clover)

Top 5 Oscar Years (single category):

  1. 1997  (Titanic, Oscar and Lucinda, Wings of the Dove, Amistad, Kundun)
  2. 2002  (Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Pianist, Frida)
  3. 1992  (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Howards End, Enchanted April, Malcolm X, Toys)
  4. 1993  (The Age of Innocence, Schindler’s List, Remains of the Day, Orlando, Piano)
  5. 2001  (Moulin Rouge, Fellowship of the Ring, Gosford Park, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Affair of the Necklace)

Top 3 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (Black and White):

  1. 1965  –  100  (Darling, Ship of Fools, Slender Thread, Morituri, Rage to Live)
  2. 1949  –  90.9  (Heiress, Prince of Foxes)
  3. 1955  –  81.8  (I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Ugetsu, Pickwick Papers, Queen Bee, Rose Tattoo)

note:  The difference between this list and the previous one is that the first one is a flat total based on my 9 point scale.  In this one, it’s comparing my top five films to the ones the Oscars actually nominated.  So, in the first one, it’s how good are the nominees.  In this one it’s how good are the nominees compared to what else was eligible.

Top 3 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (Color):

  1. 1964  –  96.7  (My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Becket, Unsinkable Molly Brown, What a Way to Go)
  2. 1965  –  82.8  (Doctor Zhivago, Agony and the Ecstasy, Sound of Music, Greatest Story Ever Told, Inside Daisy Clover)
  3. 1961  –  80.0  (West Side Story, Flower Drum Song, Babes in Toyland, Pocketful of Miracles, Back Street)

Top 5 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (single category):

  1. 2008  –  100  (Duchess, Revolutionary Road, Australia, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Milk)
  2. 1997  –  97.6  (Titanic, Oscar and Lucinda, Wings of the Dove, Amistad, Kundun)
  3. 2001  –  97.3  (Moulin Rouge, Fellowship of the Ring, Gosford Park, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Affair of the Necklace)
  4. 2009  –  97.1 (Young Victoria, Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Bright Star, Nine, Coco Before Chanel)
  5. 2010  –  97.0 (Alice in Wonderland, King’s Speech, Tempest, True Grit, I Am Love)

Worst 3 Oscar Years (Black and White):

  1. 1964  (Night of the Iguana, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, House is Not a Home, Kisses for My President, Visit)
  2. 1966  (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Morgan, Gospel According to Matthew, Mandragola, Mister Buddwing)
  3. 1951  (A Place in the Sun, Streetcar Named Desire, Kind Lady, Mudlark, Model and the Marriage Broker)

Worst 3 Oscar Years (Color):

  1. 1950  (Samson and Delilah, Black Rose, That Forsyte Woman)
  2. 1952  (Moulin Rouge, Greatest Show on Earth, Hans Christian Anderson, With a Song in My Heart, Merry Widow)
  3. 1960  (Spartacus, Can-Can, Sunrise at Campobello, Midnight Lace, Pepe)

Worst 5 Oscar Years (single category):

  1. 1978  (Death on the Nile, Days of Heaven, Wiz, Caravans, Swarm)
  2. 1958  (Gigi, Buccaneer, Some Came Running, Bell Book and Candle, Certain Smile)
  3. 1977  (Star Wars, Julia, Little Night Music, Other Side of Midnight, Airport 77)
  4. 1971  (Nicholas and Alexandra, Mary Queen of Scots, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death in Venice, What’s the Matter with Helen)
  5. 1957  (Les Girls, Funny Face, Pal Joey, Raintree Country, Affair to Remember)

Worst 3 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (Black and White):

  1. 1964  –  0  (Night of the Iguana, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, House is Not a Home, Kisses for My President, Visit)
  2. 1950  –  8.3  (All About Eve, Born Yesterday, Magnificent Yankee)
  3. 1966  –  14.2  (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Morgan, Gospel According to Matthew, Mandragola, Mister Buddwing)

Worst 3 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (Color):

  1. 1950  –  20.0  (Samson and Delilah, Black Rose, That Forsyte Woman)
  2. 1949  –  37.5  (Adventures of Don Juan, Mother is a Freshman)
  3. 1952  –  41.7  (Moulin Rouge, Greatest Show on Earth, Hans Christian Anderson, With a Song in My Heart, Merry Widow)

Worst 5 Oscars Years by Oscar Score (single category):

  1. 1958  –  33.3  (Gigi, Buccaneer, Some Came Running, Bell Book and Candle, Certain Smile)
  2. 1977  –  34.4  (Star Wars, Julia, Little Night Music, Other Side of Midnight, Airport 77)
  3. 1978  –  45.0  (Death on the Nile, Days of Heaven, Wiz, Caravans, Swarm)
  4. 1957  –  50.0 (Les Girls, Funny Face, Pal Joey, Raintree Country, Affair to Remember)
  5. 1969  –  54.5 (Anne of the Thousand Days, Hello Dolly, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Sweet Charity, Gaily Gaily)

Top 5 Films to win the Oscar (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  2. West Side Story
  3. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  4. Ran
  5. The Age of Innocence

Worst 5 Films to win the Oscar  (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. Cleopatra
  2. Nicholas and Alexandra
  3. Fellini’s Casanova
  4. Restoration
  5. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Worst 5 Films to earn an Oscar nomination (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. The Swarm
  2. 102 Dalmations
  3. The Other Side of Midnight
  4. When Time Ran Out
  5. A Little Night Music

Years in Which the Worst of the Nominees Won the Oscar:

  • 1955 (BW):  I’ll Cry Tomorrow over Ugetsu, Pickwick Papers, Queen Bee, Rose Tattoo
  • 1955 (C):  Love is a Many-Splendored Thing over Guys and Dolls, To Catch a Thief, Virgin Queen, Interrupted Melody
  • 1960 (BW):  Facts of Life over Virgin Spring, Never on Sunday, Seven Thieves, Rise and Falls of Legs Diamond
  • 1981:  Chariots of Fire over Ragtime, French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reds, Pennies from Heaven

Oscar Scores By Decade:

  • 1940’s:  50.0 (C)  /  76.2  (BW)
  • 1950’s:  61.5 (C)  /  36.5  (BW)
  • 1960’s:  69.0 (C)  /  33.0  (BW)
  • 1970’s:  68.5
  • 1980’s:  73.2
  • 1990’s:  86.1
  • 2000’s:  83.6
  • 2010’s:  92.3
  • All-Time:  76.0  /  38.5  (BW)

The BAFTA Awards

Summary:

This award would start in 1964 with some other Tech categories.  It would also be a British only award and it would be broken down into color and black & white.  Then for two years, there was no distinction and there was just one award.  Then there was one more year of a split award.  Finally in 1968, the category, like the other Tech categories became a regular category open to all and that’s when I really start counting it.  From 1968 to 1999 with three exceptions it would be a four nominee category.  It had only three nominees in 1981 and five in 1993.  It also had five in 1972 when it had three winning films with costumes all by the same designer (Anthony Mendleson).  From 2000 to the present it has been a regular five nominee category.  The BAFTAs have also been odd for, in my opinion, often nominating but not giving the award to the most amazing work of the era (see my Top 5 at the top of the post).  Interestingly, of the six films with the most points in BAFTA history, none won the BAFTA for Costume Design and only three were nominated (King’s Speech, Schindler’s List, Gandhi).

Franchises:

Four Musketeers would be the first sequel to earn a nomination.  After not giving the award to Fellowship (another odd choice – passing it over for Gosford Park instead of Moulin Rouge), Two Towers was the first sequel to win the award.  Several other sequels have earned nominations but no other ones have won the award through 2011.

Genres:

Drama dominates with just under half the winners (24 out of 52) and a little less among nominees (100 out of 211).  Suspense and Westerns are the only genres that haven’t won the award.  Kids (2), Suspense (2) and Western (1) are the only genres with less than 5 nominees.

Best Picture:

Best Picture winners do okay with getting nominations for Costume Design (16 times in 44 years) but they don’t win the award.  As many Best Picture winners won Costume Design in the 80s (Chariots of Fire, Room with a View, Last Emperor) as outside the 80s (A Man for All Seasons, GoodFellas, The Artist).  Only 67 of the 211 Costume Design nominees earned a Picture nom.

Single Nominees:

This is not particularly common.  Only The Marquise de O has won the award with no other nominations.  Of the 25 films to earn a Costume Design nom with no other noms, 9 of them were from 1964 to 1967 when it was a British category only (and two of those years had double the nominees).  Only three films since 1998 have earned a nomination with no other noms (Merchant of Venice, Bright Star, Jane Eyre).

Foreign Films:

Seventeen Foreign films have earned a nomination and since 1982 when the BAFTAs added Best Foreign Film, every one of them was also nominated there.  Before that all of the Foreign nominees won the BAFTA for Costume Design (Mademoiselle, Death in Venice, Marquise de O, Fellini’s Casanova, Kagemusha) with five others winning the award after that including Crouching Tiger and Pan’s Labyrinth, the only two to win Costume Design and Foreign Film.

Other Categories:

It’s not surprising that the biggest overlap is with Art Direction (126 – well over half the nominees).  Cinematography overlaps with almost half the nominees (104).  Since 1982, when the BAFTAs introduced the Makeup award, 86 of the 132 Costume Design nominees have also been nominated for Makeup.  In fact, in that time 70 films were nominated for Costume Design, Makeup and Art Direction.

The BAFTA Top 10:

  1. Sandy Powell  –  195
  2. Colleen Atwood  –  165
  3. Milena Canonero  –  135
  4. Jenny Beavan  –  135
  5. Shirley Russell  –  105
  6. Danilo Donati  –  90
  7. John Bright  –  90
  8. Phyllis Dalton  –  75
  9. Gabriella Pescucci  –  75
  10. Jacqueline Durran  –  75

Top 5 BAFTA Winners:

  1. Memoirs of a Geisha
  2. A Room with a View
  3. The Last Emperor
  4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Worst 5 BAFTA Winners:

  1. Braveheart
  2. Waterloo
  3. Yanks
  4. Death in Venice
  5. The Hireling

Worst 5 BAFTA Nominees:

  1. Jesus Christ Superstar
  2. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  3. Tootsie
  4. Valentino
  5. Braveheart

Top 3 BAFTA Years  (4 Nominees):

  1. 1996  (Richard III, Hamlet, English Patient, Evita)
  2. 1985  (Cotton Club, Amadeus, Passage to India, Legend)
  3. 1997  (Mrs Brown, Titanic, Wings of the Dove, L.A. Confidential)

Top 3 BAFTA Years  (5 Nominees):

  1. 1993  (Piano, Schindler’s List, Much Ado About Nothing, Dracula, Orlando)
  2. 2002  (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gangs of New York, Chicago, Frida, Catch Me if You Can)
  3. 2001  (Gosford Park, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Planet of the Apes)

Years in Which the Worst of the Nominees Won the BAFTA:

  • 1968:  Romeo and Juliet over Lion in Winter, Oliver, Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 1970:  Waterloo over Anne of the Thousand Days, Cromwell, Ryan’s Daughter
  • 1975:  Day of the Locust over Barry Lyndon, Man Who Would Be King, Four Musketeers
  • 1979:  Yanks over Agatha, Europeans, Alien
  • 1982:  Blade Runner over Gandhi, Reds
  • 1992:  Strictly Ballroom over Howards End, Last of the Mohicans, Chaplin
  • 1993:  Piano over Dracula, Schindler’s List, Much Ado About Nothing, Orlando
  • 1995:  Braveheart over Sense and Sensibility, Madness of King George, Restoration
  • 2004:  Vera Drake over Aviator, House of Flying Daggers, Finding Neverland, Merchant of Venice

The Broadcast Film Critics Awards  (Critics Choice)

Summary:

Like most of the Tech awards at the BFCA, this award only finally came into existence in 2009.  They’ve stuck to the Consensus so far with the first two winners (Young Victoria, Alice in Wonderland) also winning everything else and the third one winning the Oscar and BAFTA (Artist).

Costume Designers Guild

Summary:

Like several of the Tech guilds, the Costume Designers waited quite late (1998) before finally giving it out an award.  They then decided to be a bit strange about it as well.  First, there is their odd early disconnect from the Academy (in the first four years of the CDG Awards not a single Oscar winner even earned a nomination, double odd when you consider that after the first year there were two categories).  Second, was their category choice.  It began with a single award, expanded to a second award the next year but grouped together “Period” and “Fantasy” while allowing Contemporary to be separate.  What’s more, their nominee numbers were inconsistent (in three of the first five years with two awards there were five Contemporary nominees but all the others had just four).  Then in 2006 they went with three categories, moving Fantasy to its own separate genre but they were also inconsistent in how the categories were applied.  In 2008, for instance, Dark Knight won the Fantasy award while Iron Man was nominated in the Contemporary award.  In 2006, two films from the Contemporary category earned Oscar noms (The Queen, Devil Wears Prada) which is two more than all the other years combined.

One last thing to note: while the Oscars have equally loved the work of Colleen Atwood and Sandy Powell, the CDG has been much more one-sided.  From 1998 to 2008, Atwood won two Oscars and earned four other noms while Powell also won two Oscars while earning three other noms.  But in that same time period, at the CDG, Atwood won five awards (with two other noms) while Powell had to make do with one nom (for her Oscar winning work on The Aviator).

CDG Top 5

  1. Colleen Atwood  –  225
  2. Judianna Makovsky  –  75
  3. Ngila Dickson  –  75
  4. Julie Weiss  –  75
  5. Penny Rose  /  Sandy Powell  /  Arianne Phillips  –  75

The Nighthawk Awards

note:  Because my awards go, retroactively, all the way back through 1912, there are a lot more nominees and winners than in the other awards.  But I don’t always have a full slate of nominees and some years I don’t have any nominees.

Directors:

Kurosawa’s films lead with 10 nominations and 4 wins.  David Lean matches the four wins while George Cukor is closest with 9 nominations.

Franchises:

Lord of the Rings won three awards in a row.  Star Wars won while two other films earned noms.  Sequels began earning nominations as early as 1960 (Ivan the Terrible Part II) but it would take until 2002 for one to win the award.

Genres:

Drama wins just over half the awards (44 out of 85) with no other genre winning more than seven.  Every genre wins at least once (though once is all for Mystery (Chinatown), Sci-Fi (Star Wars), Suspense (Gaslight) and Western (McCabe & Mrs Miller)).  Drama has 186 of 417 total nominations with Musicals next with 56.  Kids and Sci-Fi are the lowest with three each and all three of the Sci-Fi films are Star Wars films.

Best Picture:

Of the 85 Picture winners, 24 of them win Costume Design.  The only gaps longer than seven years are up to 1939 (Wizard of Oz is the first to do so) and from 1985 to 1995.  Another 23 Picture nominees win Costume Design while 15 Picture winners earn Costume Design noms and 50 films earn nominations for both.  Interestingly, the most plentiful group of Picture winners / CD nominees is in the gap from 85 to 95 when five films (including four in a row from 87-90) do it.

Foreign Film:

There are 17 Foreign winners of Costume Design (seven of them either Kurosawa or Bergman films), starting in 1929, though only Crouching Tiger since 1985.  Another 63 Foreign films earn noms with the high point from 52 to 79 (39 noms plus 8 of the 17 winners).

Single Nominations:

A whopping 75 films have earned Costume Design noms but no other noms, a rate of nearly one per year.  The peak was the mid 70s with 12 films doing it from 1973 to 1978 including one of the two winners to do so (Fellini’s Casanova).  The only other winner without another nomination is Young Victoria.

Other Categories:

Some 254 films have earned Art Direction noms, well over half the list with 51 films managing to win both awards.  Only Disraeli, La Marseillaise, Fellini’s Casanova and Young Victoria manage to win Costume Design without at least a nomination in Art Direction.  Cinematography is next (153) followed by Picture.

My Top 10

  1. Irene Sharaff  –  225
  2. Adrian  –  210
  3. Sandy Powell  –  195
  4. Walter Plunkett  –  180
  5. Edith Head  –  180
  6. Phyllis Dalton  –  165
  7. Milena Canonero  –  135
  8. Jenny Beavan  –  135
  9. Colleen Atwood  –  135
  10. Orry-Kelly  –  120

My Top 10 (weighted)

  1. Irene Sharaff  –  413
  2. Edith Head  –  374
  3. Walter Plunkett  –  334
  4. Adrian  –  315
  5. Sandy Powell  –  280
  6. Jenny Beavan  –  263
  7. Colleen Atwood  –  235
  8. Phyllis Dalton  –  230
  9. Rene Hubert  –  215
  10. Dorothy Jeakins  –  215

My Top 10  (absolute points)

  1. Jenny Beavan  –  445
  2. Irene Sharaff  –  424
  3. Sandy Powell  –  415
  4. Edith Head  –  401
  5. Walter Plunkett  –  371
  6. Colleen Atwood  –  335
  7. John Bright  –  277
  8. Phyllis Dalton  –  273
  9. Gabriella Pescucci  –  261
  10. Milena Canonero  –  260

Top 5 Films to win the Nighthawk (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. Children of Paradise
  3. The Godfather
  4. Chinatown
  5. Citizen Kane

Worst 5 Films to win the Nighthawk (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. Fellini’s Casanova
  2. Disraeli
  3. The Robe
  4. Dick Tracy
  5. The Young Victoria

Worst 5 Films to earn a Nighthawk nomination  (based on quality of film not costumes):

  1. Ludwig
  2. Cleopatra  (1963)
  3. Nicholas and Alexandra
  4. Fellini’s Casanova
  5. All This and Heaven Too

Top 5 6th Place Finishers at the Nighthawks:

  1. Kundun
  2. The Crucible  (1996)
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  4. Nicholas Nickleby  (2002)
  5. The Remains of the Day

The Nighthawk Winners:

  • 1925-26:  The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • 1927-28:  Ben-Hur
  • 1928-29:  The Man Who Laughs
  • 1929-30:  Disraeli
  • 1930-31:  Dracula
  • 1931-32:  Frankenstein
  • 1932-33:  The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • 1934:  The Scarlet Empress
  • 1935:  The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 1936:  A Tale of Two Cities
  • 1937:  La Marseillaise
  • 1938:  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • 1939:  The Wizard of Oz
  • 1940:  The Thief of Baghdad
  • 1941:  Citizen Kane
  • 1942:  The Magnificent Ambersons
  • 1943:  The Phantom of the Opera
  • 1944:  Gaslight
  • 1945:  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • 1946:  Children of Paradise
  • 1947:  Great Expectations
  • 1948:  La Belle et La Bete
  • 1949:  The Heiress  (Oscar)
  • 1950:  Sunset Blvd.
  • 1951:  Oliver Twist
  • 1952:  Moulin Rouge  (Oscar)
  • 1953:  The Robe  (Oscar)
  • 1954:  Gate of Hell  (Oscar)
  • 1955:  Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi
  • 1956:  Seven Samurai  (Oscar)
  • 1957:  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • 1958:  Smiles of a Summer Night
  • 1959:  Ben Hur  (Oscar)
  • 1960:  Spartacus  (Oscar)
  • 1961:  Yojimbo  (Oscar)
  • 1962:  Lawrence of Arabia
  • 1963:  Tom Jones
  • 1964:  Mary Poppins  (Oscar)
  • 1965:  Doctor Zhivago  (Oscar)
  • 1966:  A Man for All Seasons  (Oscar)
  • 1967:  Bonnie and Clyde  (Oscar)
  • 1968:  The Lion Winter  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1969:  Oh, What a Lovely War!  (BAFTA)
  • 1970:  Women in Love  (BAFTA)
  • 1971:  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • 1972:  The Godfather  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1973:  Cries and Whispers  (Oscar)
  • 1974:  Chinatown  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1975:  Barry Lyndon  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1976:  Fellini’s Casanova  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1977:  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1978:  The Chess Players
  • 1979:  Picnic at Hanging Rock  (BAFTA)
  • 1980:  Kagemusha  (BAFTA)
  • 1981:  Ragtime  (Oscar)
  • 1982:  Gandhi  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1983:  Fanny & Alexander  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1984:  Amadeus  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1985:  Ran  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1986:  A Room with a View  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1987:  The Last Emperor  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1988:  Dangerous Liaisons  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1989:  Henry V  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1990:  Dick Tracy  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1991:  Bugsy  (Oscar)
  • 1992:  Bram Stoker’s Dracula  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1993:  The Age of Innocence  (Oscar)
  • 1994:  Interview with the Vampire  (BAFTA)
  • 1995:  Sense and Sensibility  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1996:  Hamlet  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1997:  Titanic  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1998:  Elizabeth  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 1999:  Topsy-Turvy  (Oscar)
  • 2000:  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 2001:  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  (Oscar, BAFTA)
  • 2002:  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  (CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2003:  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2004:  The Aviator  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2005:  Memoirs of a Geisha  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2006:  Marie Antoinette  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2007:  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2008:  The Duchess  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA)
  • 2009:  The Young Victoria  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA, BFCA)
  • 2010:  Alice in Wonderland  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA, BFCA)
  • 2011:  The Artist  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA, BFCA)

Consensus Awards

Most Awards (not including the Nighthawk):

  • The Young Victoria  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA, BFCA)
  • Alice in Wonderland  (Oscar, CDG, BAFTA, BFCA)

Costume Design wouldn’t have four awards until 2009 and the first two years all four groups agreed.  Before that, the CDG had only started in 1998 and for the first four years they bizarrely didn’t even nominate the Oscar winner.  So, from 1998 to 2008 only two films managed to win all three awards:

  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • The Duchess

The BAFTAs had begun in 1968.  But agreement between the Oscars and the BAFTAs wasn’t very common with just nine films winning both awards in 30 years.  It’s notable that while all four of the above films won the Nighthawk only three of the following nine films won the Nighthawk.

  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Fellini’s Casanova
  • Death on the Nile
  • Chariots of Fire
  • A Room with a View
  • The Last Emperor
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Consensus Chart

note:  The chart below I imported from Excel and I hope it isn’t too confusing.  It’s about as big as I could make to still have it fit.  It just fits out the nominees for the major groups from 2009 to 2011.  Because the CDG has three categories, I only include the nominees that also earn a nomination from some other group.

YEAR FILM AA CDG BAFTA BFCA TOT
2009 Young Victoria 30 30 30 30 120
2009 Nine 15 15 15 45
2009 Bright Star 15 15 15 45
2009 Coco Before Chanel 15 15 15 45
2009 Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 15 30 45
2009 Where the Wild Things Are 15 15
2009 Inglourious Basterds 15 15
2009 Education 15 15
2009 Single Man 15 15
2010 Alice in Wonderland 30 30 30 30 120
2010 King’s Speech 15 30 15 15 75
2010 True Grit 15 15 15 15 60
2010 Tempest, The 15 15 30
2010 I Am Love 15 15
2010 Black Swan 30 15 15 60
2010 Made in Dagenham 15 15
2011 Artist 30 15 30 30 105
2011 Hugo 15 15 15 15 60
2011 Jane Eyre 15 15 15 15 60
2011 W.E. 15 30 45
2011 Anonymous 15 15
2011 Help 15 15 30
2011 My Week with Marilyn 15 15 30
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 15 15

Lists

  • Best Oscar Winner Snubbed by the BAFTAs:  The Age of Innocence
  • Best BAFTA Winner Snubbed by the Oscars:  Kagemusha
  • Best Oscar Nominee Snubbed by the BAFTAs:  Ragtime
  • Best BAFTA Nominee Snubbed by the Oscars:  Interview with the Vampire
  • Best Film Snubbed by the Oscars and BAFTAs but Nominated by CDG:  Good Night and Good Luck
  • Best Film Snubbed by all four groups:  Perfume – The Story of a Murderer
  • Worst Oscar Winner:  Facts of Life
  • Worst BAFTA Winner:  Braveheart
  • Worst CDG Winner:  Blades of Glory
  • Average Nighthawk Winner  (9 point scale):  7.70
  • Average Oscar Winner  (9 point scale):  6.03
  • Average BAFTA Winner  (9 point scale):  5.52
  • Average Nighthawk 2nd Place  (9 point scale):  6.62
  • Average Nighthawk Nominee  (9 point scale):  6.15
  • Average Oscar Nominee  (9 point scale):  4.34
  • Average BAFTA Nominee  (9 point scale):  5.56
  • Total Oscar Score:  76.00
  • Average Oscar Winner Rank:  2.50
  • Average Oscar Winner Rank Among Nominees:  1.63

See It Only for the Costumes

Editing is a key component of a film.  As a result, it’s rare for a film to earn points in Editing without points in major categories like directing or writing or even acting.  Of the over 16,000 films I have seen that were released through 2011, these two earn a better than 4 for Costume Design but no other points.  The second film is especially notable for its costumes since everything else about it is simply awful.

  1. Russian Ark  (2002, ***)
  2. Ludwig  (1973, *.5)

Since 2011

Oscar Notes:  In 2016, Colleen Atwood finally broke the trend by winning an Oscar when Sandy Powell wasn’t nominated.  But Powell has taken the lead over Atwood because even though she hasn’t won a fourth Oscar yet, she’s had five nominations since 2011 including two each in 2015 and 2018.  The two haven’t been nominated in the same year since 2010 but one or the other has been nominated in 18 of the last 27 years.  Mad Max became the second sequel to win an Oscar while two more franchise films have also won (Fantastic Beasts, Black Panther).  Drama is now slightly below 50% of the nominations with only 14 of the 40 since 2011.  Thanks to Mad Max and Black Panther, Action has tripled its Oscar total with its first Oscars since 1954.  Only two Best Picture winners have even earned Costume Design noms since 2011 and neither won the award (12 Years a Slave, Shape of Water).  Grandmaster is the only Foreign nominee since 2011.  The single nominations have slowed up with just one a year from 2012 to 2016 and none since then.  Just over half the nominees also earned Art Direction nominations and half the winners also won Art Direction (the other half of the Art Direction winners did earn Costume Design noms).  The Sound Editing crossover has doubled with seven more films nominated for both and Mad Max winning both.  The 2017 nominees (Phantom Thread, Beauty and the Beast, Darkest Hour, Victoria & Abdul, Shape of Water) is the second best bunch all-time though it’s not a perfect 100 score.  Mad Max is the latest worst of the nominees to win the award.

The Academy Awards Top 10:

  1. Edith Head  –  645
  2. Irene Sharaff  –  300
  3. Charles LeMaire  –  285
  4. Sandy Powell  –  270
  5. Colleen Atwood  –  240
  6. Jean Louis  –  225
  7. Dorothy Jeakins  –  225
  8. Milena Canonero  –  195
  9. Helen Rose  –  180
  10. Jenny Beavan  –  180

BAFTA Notes:  Mad Max became the second sequel to win the BAFTA.  Since 2011, Costume Design has crossed over with Art Direction and Makeup 21 times each but only 12 films earned all three nominations.  The only Best Picture winner to even earn a Costume Design nomination is La La Land.  No Foreign Film has earned another nom.  But single nominations have gone up with six films in the eight years.

The BAFTA Top 10:

  1. Sandy Powell  –  285
  2. Colleen Atwood  –  210
  3. Jacqueline Durran  –  180
  4. Milena Canonero  –  165
  5. Jenny Beavan  –  165
  6. Shirley Russell  –  105
  7. Danilo Donati  –  90
  8. John Bright  –  90
  9. Phyllis Dalton  –  75
  10. Gabriella Pescucci  /  Catherine Martin  /  Alexandra Byrne  –  75

BFCA Notes:  The BFCA has mostly been notable for consensus since 2011.   Its first six winners also won the BAFTA and five won the Oscar (all but Jackie) and only Love & Friendship managed a nomination without a nom from another group.  They’ve been a bit more on their own the last two years, giving the award to Black Panther (which the BAFTAs didn’t nominate) and Dolemite (which only earned a CDG nom to go with it).

CDG Notes:  The CDG has now admired Powell’s work more (she and Atwood tied with 105 points to lead the decade) but they’ve gone away from the Oscars certainly with only four winners the same out of eight with Fantastic Beasts the first Oscar winner to lose the CDG to a non-Oscar nominee and Little Women becoming the first Oscar winner since 2001 not to even earn a CDG nom.  La La Land did become the first Contemporary nominee since 2006 to earn an Oscar nom.  It’s worth noting that at least one Oscar nominee every year has failed to earn a CDG nomination with the exceptions of 2006 and 2012.

Top 10 Points:

  1. Colleen Atwood  –  300
  2. Sandy Powell  –  150
  3. Arianne Phillips  –  135
  4. Alexandra Byrne  –  120
  5. Judianna Makovsky  –  120
  6. Michael Kaplan  –  105
  7. Milena Canonero  –  90
  8. Mark Bridges  /  Lindy Hemming  –  90
  9. Trish Sommerville  /  Jenny Beavan  –  90
  10. Michael Wilkinson  /  Ellen Mirojnick  –  90

Some Interesting Statistics Comparing the CDG to the Oscars, Starting with 1999:

  • # of CDG Contemporary Nominees:  102
  • # that earned Oscar Noms:  3
  • # of CDG Fantasy Nominees:  62
  • # that earned Oscar Noms:  12
  • # that Won the Oscar:  4  (one didn’t win the CDG)
  • # of CDG Period Nominees:  98  (including Period / Fantasy era through 2005)
  • # that earned Oscar Noms:  53
  • # that Won the Oscar:  13
  • # that Won the Oscar but not the CDG:  6
  • # that Won the CDG but didn’t earn an Oscar Nom:  1  (Hidden Figures)
  • # of Oscar Winners to win the CDG:  10
  • # of Oscar Winners to earn a CDG Nom:  7
  • # of Oscar Winners not nominated by the CDG:  4
  • # of Oscar Nominees to win the CDG:  18
  • # of Oscar Nominees nominated by the CDG:  33
  • # of Oscar Nominees not nominated by the CDG:  33

Nighthawk Notes:

Top 10 Points:

  1. Sandy Powell  –  270
  2. Irene Sharaff  –  225
  3. Adrian  –  210
  4. Walter Plunkett  –  180
  5. Edith Head  –  180
  6. Colleen Atwood  –  180
  7. Phyllis Dalton  –  165
  8. Milena Canonero  –  165
  9. Jenny Beavan  –  150
  10. Richard Taylor  –  135

My Top 10 (weighted)

  1. Irene Sharaff  –  413
  2. Sandy Powell  –  392
  3. Edith Head  –  374
  4. Walter Plunkett  –  334
  5. Colleen Atwood  –  327
  6. Adrian  –  315
  7. Jenny Beavan  –  282
  8. Phyllis Dalton  –  230
  9. Milena Canonero  –  226
  10. Rene Hubert  /  Dorothy Jeakins  –  215

My Top 10  (absolute points)

  1. Sandy Powell  –  583
  2. Colleen Atwood  –  493
  3. Jenny Beavan  –  480
  4. Irene Sharaff  –  424
  5. Edith Head  –  401
  6. Walter Plunkett  –  371
  7. Jacqueline Durran  –  307
  8. Milena Canonero  –  290
  9. John Bright  –  277
  10. Phyllis Dalton  –  273

9 point Costumes Since 2011:

  • Lincoln
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Greatest Showman
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Favorite
  • Mary Poppins Returns
  • Little Women
  • Rocketman
  • Aladdin

The Nighthawk Winners:

  • 2012:  Anna Karenina  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2013:  The Great Gatsby  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2014:  The Grand Budapest Hotel  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2015:  Crimson Peak  (CDG)
  • 2016:  Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2017:  Phantom Thread  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2018:  The Favourite  (Oscar, BAFTA, CDG, BFCA)
  • 2019:  Little Women  (Oscar, BAFTA, BFCA)

Chart / Consensus Notes:

For a few years, the four groups continued to mostly agree with three films winning all four awards (Anna Karenina, Grand Budapest Hotel, Mad Max).  But that’s gone now with Black Panther becoming the first Oscar winner to fail to earn a BAFTA nom since 1999 followed by Little Women becoming the first Oscar winner to fail to earn a CDG nom since 2001.

2012 Anna Karenina 30 30 30 30 120
2012 Les Miserables 15 15 15 15 60
2012 Lincoln 15 15 15 15 60
2012 Snow White and the Huntsman 15 15 15 45
2012 Mirror Mirror 15 30 45
2012 Hobbit 15 15 30
2012 Cloud Atlas 15 15 30
2012 Great Expectations 15 15
2013 Great Gatsby 30 15 30 30 105
2013 American Hustle 15 15 15 15 60
2013 12 Years a Slave 15 30 15 60
2013 Saving Mr Banks 15 15 15 45
2013 Invisible Woman 15 15 30
2013 Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug 15 15 30
2013 Grandmaster 15 15
2013 Behind the Candelabra 15 15
2014 Grand Budapest Hotel 30 30 30 30 120
2014 Into the Woods 15 30 15 15 75
2014 Maleficent 15 15 15 45
2014 Mr Turner 15 15 15 45
2014 Inherent Vice 15 15 15 45
2014 Theory of Everything 15 15 30
2014 Imitation Game 15 15 30
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road 30 30 30 30 120
2015 Danish Girl 15 30 15 15 75
2015 Carol 15 15 15 15 60
2015 Cinderella 15 15 15 15 60
2015 Brooklyn 15 15 15 45
2015 Revenant 15 15
2016 Jackie 15 15 30 30 90
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 30 15 15 15 75
2016 La La Land 15 30 15 15 75
2016 Florence Foster Jenkins 15 15 15 15 60
2016 Allied 15 15 15 45
2016 Love & Friendship 15 15
2017 Phantom Thread 30 15 30 30 105
2017 Shape of Water, The 15 30 15 15 75
2017 Beauty and the Beast 15 15 15 15 60
2017 Wonder Woman 30 15 45
2017 I Tonya 30 15 45
2017 Blade Runner 2049 15 15 30
2017 Darkest Hour 15 15 30
2017 Victoria & Abdul 15 15
2018 Favourite, The 15 30 30 15 90
2018 Black Panther 30 15 30 75
2018 Mary Poppins Returns 15 15 15 15 60
2018 Mary Queen of Scots 15 15 15 15 60
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody 15 15 15 45
2018 Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The 15 15 30
2019 Little Women 30 30 15 75
2019 Jojo Rabbit 15 30 15 60
2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 15 15 15 15 60
2019 Irishman 15 15 15 45
2019 Dolemite is My Name 15 30 45
2019 Rocketman 15 15 30
2019 Downton Abbey 15 15 30
2019 Joker 15 15
2019 Judy 15 15

See it for the Costumes:

I don’t know that I would say to see the film just because of the costume (although it is, along with Mary Shelley, one of only two post-2011 films to earn points for costumes but nothing else), but I think there is actually no dress that I love more in film history, even more than Natalie Wood’s blue dress in Gypsy or Kiera’s emerald dress in Atonement, than the one that Emma Stone wears in Gangster Squad.