Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005

2005 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2005 Costume Designers Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 19, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Meryl Streep in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (top); Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (bottom)
 

Best Costume Design – Fantasy/Period Film
* Colleen Atwood Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Alexandra Byrne The Phantom of the Opera
Sharen Davis Ray
Sandy Powell The Aviator
Janty Yates DeLovely
Best Costume Design – Contemporary Film
Milena Canonero Ocean’s Twelve
* Milena Canonero The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor Alfie
Catherine Thomas Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Melissa Toth Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Costume Design – Contemporary [...]

Art Directors Guild Awards 2005

2005 Art Directors Guild Awards
2005 Art Directors Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 12, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (top); Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci in The Terminal (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
Best Production Design – Period or Fantasy – Feature Film
The Aviator – Dante Ferretti
Finding Neverland – Gemma Jackson
The Incredibles – Lou Romano
* Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Rick Heinrichs
The Phantom of the Opera – Anthony Pratt
Best Production Design – Contemporary – Feature Film
Collateral – David Wasco
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Dan Leigh
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Mark Friedberg
Million Dollar Baby – Henry [...]

LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Jim Carrey

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Direction: Brad Silberling
Screenplay: Robert Gordon, from Daniel Handler’s books The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Jude Law, Timothy Spall, Catherine O’Hara, Billy Connolly, Dustin Hoffman, Craig Ferguson, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, Jaimie Harris
 

 

Three of Daniel Handler’s Gothic tales about three siblings on the run from a ruthless and greedy relative are given the Hollywood treatment in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Not surprisingly, the US$100,000,000+ film boasts first-rate production values, with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s lenses perfectly capturing (and enhancing) the eerie Gothic-ness of production designer Rick Heinrichs‘ preternatural creations.
On the other hand, as befits most Hollywood fare, both [...]