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Annie Hadley
Annie Hadley (born Dorothy Ann Brown; 1939–2010) was a costumer for British and Hollywood film and theatre. In her role as chief cutter, Hadley was responsible for tailoring costumes for five films that won Best Costume Academy Awards. Hadley's frequent collaborator, the costume designer Sandy Powell, described Hadley as her "partner in crime". Training and early businesses Annie Hadley was born in 1939 in Sheffield, England. Aged sixteen she enrolled at Sheffield School of Art, where she met Colin Hadley. The couple married in 1958, and by 1965 had four daughters. In 1961 they had moved to Brighton, where Colin was studying at Brighton College of Art, and in 1965 Annie started an haute couture college course, gaining qualifications in pattern cutting and sewing high fashion garments. After graduation, Annie established "Best Bib & Tucker", a childrenswear boutique selling her own designs. After a couple of years, she closed the shop and started Annie Hadley Ready-to-Wear, wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Powell (costume Designer)
Sandy Powell (born 7 April 1960) is a British costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards. She has been the recipient of various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship in 2023. Powell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to costume design. Powell is best known for her collaborations with directors Derek Jarman, Neil Jordan, Todd Haynes and Martin Scorsese. She has received 15 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won three times for ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998), ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'' (2004), and ''The Young Victoria'' (2009). She has also been nominated for the BAFTA Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Liaisons
''Dangerous Liaisons'' is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'', itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It stars Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Peter Capaldi and Keanu Reeves. ''Dangerous Liaisons'' was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 21, 1988. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise for the performances by Close and Pfeiffer and the screenplay, production values, costumes and soundtrack. Grossing $34.7 million against its $14 million budget, it was a modest box-office success. It received seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design. Plot In pre-Revolution Paris, the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Burrows
Rosemary Burrows, also known as Rosie Burrows, was a costume designer, wardrobe mistress and costume supervisor for British films, including many in the Hammer Horror series and James Bond franchise. She has over 100 credits from 1958 to 2005, and was recognised for her creativity and efficiency with budgets; one colleague at Hammer remembered, "her creative mind was utterly boundless". Career Rosemary Burrows studied pottery at Berkshire College of Art before getting a job at Hammer's Bray studios, where she was paid £11 per week as assistant to Wardrobe Mistress Molly Arbuthnot. The first film she worked on was ''The Camp on Blood Island'' (1958). Frequent Hammer actor Peter Cushing has described working at the Bray studios with "dear Rosemary Burrows and Mrs Arbuthnot, who looked after the wardrobe department, at the same time dispensing endless and most welcome cups of tea". After Arbuthnot's retirement, Burrows took on the role of Wardrobe Mistress and Wardrobe Super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladiator (2000 Film)
''Gladiator'' is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson from a story by Franzoni. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman general who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena, determined to avenge the murders of his family and the emperor. The screenplay, initially written by Franzoni, was inspired by the 1958 Daniel P. Mannix novel '' Those About to Die''. The script was acquired by DreamWorks Pictures, and Scott signed on to direct the film. Principal photography began in January 1999 and wrapped in May of that year. Production was complicated by the script being rewritten multiple times and by the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janty Yates
Janty Yates (born 1950) is a British costume designer for film and television. In 2001, she won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for ''Gladiator'' (2000). She has also received nominations for BAFTA Awards, Satellite Awards, and Saturn Awards. She is a frequent collaborator with English director Ridley Scott, having worked with him fourteen times . Career Janty Yates worked in the fashion industry prior to her career in film and television. Yates' first credited work was in the wardrobe department on the 1981 film '' Quest for Fire''. Her first credited role as a costume designer was for the 1993 British comedy '' Bad Behaviour'', and she worked on a further six films in that role for the rest of the decade. In 2000, her work on Ridley Scott's ''Gladiator'' earned her her first career awards, including the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society award for Best Costume Design, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award for Best Costume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films. Parker was known for using a wide range of filmmaking styles and working in differing genres. He directed musicals, including ''Bugsy Malone'' (1976), ''Fame (1980 film), Fame'' (1980), ''Pink Floyd – The Wall'' (1982), ''The Commitments (film), The Commitments'' (1991) and ''Evita (1996 film), Evita'' (1996); true-story dramas, including ''Midnight Express (film), Midnight Express'' (1978), ''Mississippi Burning'' (1988), ''Come See the Paradise'' (1990) and ''Angela's Ashes (film), Angela's Ashes'' (1999); family dramas, including ''Shoot the Moon'' (1982), and horrors and thrillers including ''Angel Heart'' (1987) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Rose
Penny Rose is a British costume designer who has worked in the film industry since the 1970s. Rose has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design three times for the films '' Evita'' (1996), '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003), and '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (2006). Career Rose's costume design career began in the West End theatres of London, following time spent on various theatre projects as a teenager in Windsor. She studied stage management while attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Due to her fluency in Italian, she acquired a job as an assistant and buyer for the high fashion label Fiorucci in Milan, which introduced her to important people in the fashion and film industries. One of her first film collaborations was with the director Alan Parker, when they worked together on the 1982 film ''Pink Floyd – The Wall''. She again joined Parker on his directional projects '' The Road to Well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evita (1996 Film)
''Evita'' is a 1996 American biographical musical drama film based on the 1976 Evita (album), concept album produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a Evita (musical), 1978 musical. The film depicts the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33. Directed by Alan Parker, and written by Parker and Oliver Stone, ''Evita'' stars Madonna as Eva, Jonathan Pryce as Eva's husband Juan Perón, and Antonio Banderas as Ché, an everyman who acts as the film's narrator. Following the release of the 1976 album, a film adaptation of the musical became mired in development hell for more than fifteen years, as the rights were passed on to several major studios, and various directors and actors considered. In 1993, producer Robert Stigwood sold the rights to Andrew G. Vajna, who agreed to finance the film through his production company Cinergi Pictures, with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Buena Vista Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England. It is approximately west of central London. The studio has been the base for many productions over the years from large-scale films to television programmes, commercials, and pop promos, including the ''James Bond'' and '' Carry On'' film franchises. History Pinewood Studios was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, a large Victorian country house which was purchased by Canadian financier, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Chiswick, Lt. Col. Grant Morden (1880–1932). He added refinements such as a ballroom, a Victorian-style Turkish bath, and an indoor squash court. Due to its seclusion, it was used as a discreet meeting place for high-ranking politicians and diplomats; the agreement to create the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed there. In 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot (1874–1945) bought the land and turned it into a country club. The ballroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Knight
''First Knight'' is a 1995 medieval historical drama film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Sean Connery as King Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere and Ben Cross as Malagant. The film follows the rogue Lancelot's romance with Lady Guinevere of Leonesse, who is to marry King Arthur of Camelot, while the land is threatened by the renegade knight Malagant. The film is noteworthy within Arthurian cinema for its absence of magical elements, its drawing on the material of Chrétien de Troyes for plot elements and the substantial age difference between Arthur and Guinevere. Plot King Arthur of Camelot, victorious from his wars, has dedicated his reign to promoting justice and peace and now wishes to marry. However, Malagant, a former Knight of the Round Table, desires the throne for himself. Lancelot, a vagabond and skilled swordsman, duels in small villages for money. He attributes his skill to his lack of concern whether he li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a state university system, system of Public university, public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. The system has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IU Indianapolis. The flagship campus of Indiana University is Indiana University Bloomington. Campuses Core campuses *Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington) is the flagship campus of Indiana University. The Bloomington campus is home to numerous premier Indiana University schools, including the College of Arts and Sciences, the Hutton Honors College, the Jacobs School of Music, an extension of the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Indiana University School of Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, which includes the former School of Library and Information Science (now Department of Library and Information Science), School of Optometry, the Indiana University School of Public and Enviro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
