Archive for Friday, January 18, 2008
Style points for film, TV designers
The costume designers of the comedy “Blades of Glory,” the gritty western “3:10 to Yuma” and the romantic epic “Atonement” are among the nominees for the 10th annual Costume Designer Guild Awards announced Thursday.
Vying in the contemporary film category are Julie Weiss for “Blades of Glory,” Olivier Bériot for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Mary Claire Hannan for “Into the Wild,” Monique Prudhomme for “Juno” and Louise Frogley for “Ocean’s Thirteen.”
Nominees for period film are Jacqueline Durran for “Atonement,” Alexandra Byrne for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” the late Marit Allen for “La Vie en Rose,” Colleen Atwood for “Sweeney Todd” and Arianne Phillips for “3:10 to Yuma.”
Garnering nominations in the fantasy film category are Mona May for “Enchanted,” Ruth Myers for “The Golden Compass,” Jany Temime for “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Penny Rose for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” and Michael Wilkinson for “300.”
In the TV movie/miniseries category, the guild nominated Mario Davignon for “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” Andrea Galer for “Jane Eyre,” and Marion Boyce and Debra McGuire for “The Starter Wife.”
Vying for contemporary television series are Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko for “Big Love,” Randall Christensen for “Dancing With the Stars,” Amy Westcott for “Entourage,” Juliet Polcsa for “The Sopranos” and Eduardo Castro for “Ugly Betty.”
Period/fantasy TV series nominees are Robert Blackman for “Pushing Daisies,” April Ferry for “Rome” and Joan Bergin for “The Tudors.”
The awards will be handed out at a gala hosted by Anjelica Huston at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Feb. 19.
- Greetings from the energized GOP base
- CT scans can be better medicine for doctors than for patients
- Sarah Palin's appeal to working-class women may be limited
- How to determine your bank's financial health
- In Mexico, a police victory against smuggling brings deadly revenge
- Before Rielle Hunter was linked to John Edwards, she searched for enlightenment -- not scandal.
- L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard Temple rebuilds on past glory
- California's community colleges having a swell time
- Sarah Palin's style: the issue at hand
- Yes, there are options in treating cancer
- Andy Murray upsets Rafael Nadal to reach U.S. Open final
- Police: Gary Coleman hit man with truck in Utah
- Russia ships to join Venezuela naval exercises in Caribbean
- Luck is what the Dodgers make of it
- Hurricane Ike pounds Caribbean, worries U.S.
- Task force cracks down on South L.A. trash dumpers
- Sarah Palin to sit down with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson
- It isn't getting old for Serena
- Belarus teen staying with Petaluma family is focus of diplomatic tussle
- Sarah Palin's leadership style has admirers and critics
