'Curse' pulls off upset at costume guild kudos
"Wow!" gasped the audience tonight at the Costume Designers Guild Awards when "Curse of the Golden Flower" beat "Dreamgirls," "Marie Antoinette," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "The Illusionist" for best costumes in a period film.
But I think the night's biggest winner of all was emcee Jane Kaczmarek, who presided with authority, warmth, humor and a contagious sense of the giddies, making everybody feel like they were having fun at the banquet hall of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Her best gag: when she showed a photo of what she wore at the last Emmys "when I lost for the seventh time." Appropriately, it was red, like a slain kudos warrior.
PERIOD FILM
"Cuse of the Golden Flower" - Chung Man Yee
CONTEMPORARY FILM
"The Queen" - Consolate Boyle
FANTASY FILM
"Pan's Labyrinth" - Lala Huerte
Photo: Ceremony emcee Jane Kaczmarek confessed to the costume designers how proud she was that she fit so nicely into her designer dress tonight that she didn't have to wear her "industrial-sized girdle from Sears." (L.A. Times photo by Tom O'Neil)
TV SERIES - PERIOD/FANTASY
"Rome" - April Ferry
TV SERIES - CONTEMPORARY
"Ugly Betty" - Eduardo Castro
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE OR MINI SERIES:
"Elizabeth I" – Mike O’Neill
COMMERCIAL COSTUME DESIGN
"Target Branding Circle" – Jennifer Rade
This means someone won an award for Ugly Betty's ponchos! Rock on!
Posted by: rupert | February 19, 2007 at 05:23 PM
WHY would the crowd Gasp. at "Curses" win?? The costumes were amazing. Its too bad the Academy was too narrow minded to have included in actress and F. Film.
Posted by: frar | February 18, 2007 at 07:56 AM
Yeah, yeah... And everyone last year was voting for Felicity Huffman... You have to understand that a few members aren't the Academy. I have friends, too, and they're voting for The Departed for best picture... Actually I've heard about many voting for "Letters" or "The Queen", but the Academy has about 6.000 members and ten or fifteen members aren't a sign of a win for a film... And by the way, Babel is the film some like but many hate... That's a problem... That's how Brokeback lost... And don't try to make the race more and more interesting... It's interesting enough... The Departed wins best picture. It's a bold choice and maybe the most interesting since The Silence of the Lambs...
Posted by: Orson | February 18, 2007 at 12:10 AM