Black Swan – Amy Westcott
Burlesque – Michael Kaplan
Inception – Jeffrey Kurland
The Social Network – Jacqueline West
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Ellen Mirojnick
The Fighter – Mark Bridges
The King’s Speech – Jenny Beavan
True Grit – Mary Zophres
EXCELLENCE IN FANTASY FILM
Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood
The Tempest – Sandy Powell
TRON: Legacy – Michael Wilkinson & Christine Bieselin Clark
I'm most chagrined to see Julie Weiss' wonderful costuming of Get Low completely ignored. If it couldn't score here, maybe I should let it go from my predictions. But that begs the question: Why only three nominees for period? Did they really not consider entries like Get Low and The Wolfman (among the year's best imo) good enough to bump the nominee count up to five?
Anyway, it looks like Alice in Wonderland, The King's Speech, The Tempest, and True Grit are leading the way, but who to put in that fifth Oscar slot? Might we finally have the first contemporary costume nominee since The Devil Wears Prada? If so, I'm cheering for Black Swan all the way!
Meanwhile, that Fantasy category is a sad state of affairs. Not only are the three nominees pretty lowsy movies (which is beside the point, anyway), but I didn't even find the costumes in them that good. Jany Temime's work in this year's Harry Potter is much more deserving if you ask me.
