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Award for Costume Design
This year is all about the historical costume both recent and a little further back.
I am going to assume that the costumes in Australia designed by Catherine Martin are pretty accurate for the time. World War 2 fashions are pretty universal.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button designed by Jacqueline West had a lot of costumes and had to move through time from the early 1900 to clothes of a much more recent vintage. It looked right. I didn't feel that any of the clothes were out of place.
The Duchess designed by Michael O'Connor is that large historical costume drama that the Academy seems to love so. It was OK but some of the pieces were not on the money
I find it funny that Milk designed by Danny Glicker is now considered historical since it took place over 30 years ago. Yes folks those 70s clothes you still have in your closet are now considered truly vintage but if those don't come back I won't be crying. I, to this day, loathe polyester and was glad to see it gone.
Revolutionary Road designed by Albert Wolsky was pretty typical of the 50s. It looked the period but nothing really stood out.
I find this one hard to call. I think Milk deserves it but I think Button or the Duchess are more to the Academy's liking
Awards in Make up
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button make-up design by Greg Cannom owed more to the visual effects that let Button age backwards than the make-up. Once it was Pitt, I had seen that sort of thing a million times including Dustin Hoffman in "Little Big Man."
The Joker in The Dark Knight designed by John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan was terrifying indeed. Two-Face was, again, more of a visual effect than a make-up job. The rest of the characters were kind of there but nothing new or that impressive.
If I were to give this award out, it would go hands down to Hellboy II: The Golden Army with make-up by Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz. Between the fairy land and the members of the B.P.R.D. are done wonderfully. And most of it was make-up not make-up as set up for a visual effect.
Award for Visual Effects
Speaking of Visual Effects, this is a very hard category to judge. We have two comic book films and a man who is living backwards going head to head.
Iron Man looked like it leapt off the comic page. I really liked the work that went into making us believe that a man in an iron suit could fly. The final confrontation between the villain and the hero was a knock down drag out that was amazing to watch.
Dark Knight finds itself as a bit of a disadvantage since we have seen it before in the previous film. Sure the explosions were bigger and the car was cooler but we expected that. There was nothing really new here.
My pick for the win would be The Curious Case of Benjamin Button if for no other reason than it was different. There were tons of visual effects in that film that you just didn't notice when you were watching the film but found yourself thinking later "how did they do that?" And there was some groundbreaking work which will probably become industry standard in a couple of years.
Tomorrow will be the rest of my picks.
I am grateful for being able to figure out an electronics puzzle.
This year is all about the historical costume both recent and a little further back.
I am going to assume that the costumes in Australia designed by Catherine Martin are pretty accurate for the time. World War 2 fashions are pretty universal.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button designed by Jacqueline West had a lot of costumes and had to move through time from the early 1900 to clothes of a much more recent vintage. It looked right. I didn't feel that any of the clothes were out of place.
The Duchess designed by Michael O'Connor is that large historical costume drama that the Academy seems to love so. It was OK but some of the pieces were not on the money
I find it funny that Milk designed by Danny Glicker is now considered historical since it took place over 30 years ago. Yes folks those 70s clothes you still have in your closet are now considered truly vintage but if those don't come back I won't be crying. I, to this day, loathe polyester and was glad to see it gone.
Revolutionary Road designed by Albert Wolsky was pretty typical of the 50s. It looked the period but nothing really stood out.
I find this one hard to call. I think Milk deserves it but I think Button or the Duchess are more to the Academy's liking
Awards in Make up
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button make-up design by Greg Cannom owed more to the visual effects that let Button age backwards than the make-up. Once it was Pitt, I had seen that sort of thing a million times including Dustin Hoffman in "Little Big Man."
The Joker in The Dark Knight designed by John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan was terrifying indeed. Two-Face was, again, more of a visual effect than a make-up job. The rest of the characters were kind of there but nothing new or that impressive.
If I were to give this award out, it would go hands down to Hellboy II: The Golden Army with make-up by Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz. Between the fairy land and the members of the B.P.R.D. are done wonderfully. And most of it was make-up not make-up as set up for a visual effect.
Award for Visual Effects
Speaking of Visual Effects, this is a very hard category to judge. We have two comic book films and a man who is living backwards going head to head.
Iron Man looked like it leapt off the comic page. I really liked the work that went into making us believe that a man in an iron suit could fly. The final confrontation between the villain and the hero was a knock down drag out that was amazing to watch.
Dark Knight finds itself as a bit of a disadvantage since we have seen it before in the previous film. Sure the explosions were bigger and the car was cooler but we expected that. There was nothing really new here.
My pick for the win would be The Curious Case of Benjamin Button if for no other reason than it was different. There were tons of visual effects in that film that you just didn't notice when you were watching the film but found yourself thinking later "how did they do that?" And there was some groundbreaking work which will probably become industry standard in a couple of years.
Tomorrow will be the rest of my picks.
I am grateful for being able to figure out an electronics puzzle.
