Best Costume Design
| Academy Award for Best Costume Design | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Joe I. Tompkins | Cross Creek | Nominated | First black person (male or female) to be nominated for Best Costume Design. |
| 1989 | Harlem Nights | Nominated | ||
| 1992 | Ruth E. Carter | Malcolm X | Nominated | First black woman to be nominated for Best Costume Design. |
| 1997 | Amistad | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Sharen Davis | Ray | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Nominated | ||
Read more about this topic: List Of Black Academy Award Winners And Nominees
Famous quotes containing the words costume and/or design:
“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Westerners inherit
A design for living
Deeper into matter—
Not without due patter
Of a great misgiving.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)