The Academy Award for Best Costume Design honours achievement in costume design for film and is given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was first presented at the ceremony held in March 1949 for films of the previous year, long after the awards began, reflecting the growing recognition of costume as a craft. For its first two decades it was split into separate categories for black-and-white and colour films, and the two were merged in 1967. The first winners were Roger K. Furse for Hamlet and Dorothy Jeakins and Karinska for Joan of Arc. Edith Head won the award eight times, more than any other person, and it often favours elaborate period productions.
Before and after
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1949Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 1949Golden Lion
- 1949Publication of Aegukka
- 1949Academy Award for Best Costume Design
- 1949Publication of The Second Sex
- 1949North Atlantic Treaty
- 12 January 1949Birth of Haruki Murakami
- from 25 January 1949 to 28 June 1991Founding of COMECON
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 12 March 1947 to 25 December 1991Cold War
- from 3 April 1948 to 1 December 1951Marshall Plan
- 10 December 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 26 July 1953Cuban Revolution
- from 14 October 1962 to 28 October 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 26 December 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The era
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