Costume Designers Guild Awards 2008

2008 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2008 Costume Designers Guild award nominations: January 16, 2008
2008 Costume Designers Guild award winners: Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 19, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd (top); Nicole Kidman in The Golden Compass (middle); Blades of Glory (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
EXCELLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM:
* Blades of Glory — Julie Weiss
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Olivier Bériot
Into the Wild — Mary Claire Hannan
Juno — Monique Prudhomme
Ocean’s Thirteen — Louise Frogley
EXCELLENCE IN PERIOD FILM:
Atonement — Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age — Alexandra Byrne
La Vie en Rose — Marit Allen (posthumous)
* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Colleen Atwood
3:10 to Yuma — Arianne Phillips
EXCELLENCE FANTASY [...]

Art Directors Guild Awards 2008

2008 Art Directors Guild Awards
2008 Art Directors Guild Award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 16, 2008.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

FEATURE FILMS
PERIOD FILM
AMERICAN GANGSTER PD: Arthur Max
ATONEMENT PD: Sarah Greenwood
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE PD: Guy Hendrix Dyas
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET PD: Dante Ferretti
* THERE WILL BE BLOOD PD: Jack Fisk
FANTASY FILM
* THE GOLDEN COMPASS PD: Dennis Gassner
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX PD: Stuart Craig
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END PD: Rick Heinrichs
RATATOUILLE PD: Harley Jessup
300 PD: James Bissell
CONTEMPORARY FILM
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM PD: Peter Wenham
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY PD: Michel Eric, Laurent Ott
THE KITE RUNNER PD: Carlos Conti
MICHAEL CLAYTON PD: Kevin Thompson
* [...]

THE GOLDEN COMPASS and Catholic Censors

Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter in The Golden Compass

Via Tim Drake’s "U.S. Bishops Withdraw Controversial Movie Review" in the National Catholic Register:
"’The aggressively anti-religious, anti-Christian undercurrent in The Golden Compass is unmistakable and at times undisguised,’ [Denver Archbishop Charles] Chaput wrote in a column in the Dec. 12 issue of the Denver Catholic Register. ‘The wicked Mrs. Coulter alludes approvingly to a fictional version of the doctrine of original sin. When a warrior Ice Bear — one of the heroes of the story — breaks into the local Magisterium headquarters to take back the armor stolen from him, the exterior walls of the evil building are covered with Eastern Christian icons. And for Catholics in our own world, of [...]