Sandy Powell was summoned to the podium twice Thursday night at the 12th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton.Powell was awarded the prize for excellence in period film for her work in Apparition's "The Young Victoria," in which she dressed Emily Blunt as the young queen just assuming her throne.
Sandy Powell picked up her third Academy Award for The Young Victoria, Jean-Marc Vallée’s lavish adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel, starring Emily Blunt. It is Powell's fourth award for the film, including the Costume Design gong at last month's Baftas.
Powell, who won her first two Academy Awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Aviator (2004), joked as she collected her Oscar: "I've already got two of these at home so I'm feeling greedy."
She dedicated the gong to designers on low budget and contemporary films, saying: "This one's for you but I'm going to take it home tonight, thank you."
Powell studied Theatre Design at London’s Central School of Art, but left midway through the course to design in fringe theatre, before moving into film. Her break in cinema came in Derek Jarman’s 1986 film Caravaggio, and she went on to work on such films such as the Oscar-winning The Crying Game, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Departed.
In an interview
in 2008, Powell told The Times that exploring different time periods was her favourite part of the job. “Since the internet, it is now possible to cover a wide area without leaving your desk," she added. "However, it’s always better to look at the real thing. For Young Victoria, I was lucky enough to see and touch some of Queen Victoria’s clothes, including her wedding dress.”Powell, who has forged a continuing collaboration with the director Martin Scorcese, is also the designer behind his latest thriller, Shutter Island, currently on release, and is soon to begin work on his next project, a biopic of Frank Sinatra.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter/ TimesOnline)
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