| Edith Head | |
|---|---|
| |
| 35 Nominations / 8 Wins | |
| Role | Costume Designer |
| Born | October 28, 1897 |
| San Bernardino, California | |
| Died | October 24, 1981 |
Edith Head is an American costume designer who was nominated for 35 awards and won eight, more than any other designer and any woman in any category in Oscar history. In 1924, despite lacking art, design, and costume design experience, she was became a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures. She began designing costumes for silent films and, by the 1930s, had established herself as one of Hollywood's leading costume designers. She worked at Paramount for 43 years until she went to Universal Pictures in 1967, possibly prompted by her extensive work for director Alfred Hitchcock, who had moved to Universal, in 1960.
Wins[]
- 22nd Academy Awards, 1950
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Heiress (shared with Gile Steele)
- 23rd Academy Awards, 1951
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Samson and Delilah (shared with Charles LeMaire, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling)
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — All About Eve (shared with Charles LeMaire)
- 24th Academy Awards, 1952
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — A Place in the Sun
- 26th Academy Awards, 1954
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Roman Holiday
- 27th Academy Awards, 1955
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Sabrina [1]
- 30th Academy Awards, 1961
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Facts of Life (shared with Edward Stevenson)
- 46th Academy Awards, 1974
- Best Costume Design — The Sting
Nominations[]
- 21st Academy Awards, 1948
- Best Costume Design (Color) — The Emperor Waltz (shared with Gile Steele)
- 22nd Academy Awards, 1949
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Heiress (shared with Gile Steele)
- 23rd Academy Awards, 1950
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — All About Eve (shared with Charles LeMaire)
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Samson and Delilah (shared with Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling)
- 24th Academy Awards, 1951
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — A Place in the Sun
- 25th Academy Awards, 1952
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Carrie (1952)
- Best Costume Design (Color) — The Greatest Show on Earth (shared with Dorothy Jeankins and Miles White)
- 26th Academy Awards, 1953
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Roman Holiday
- 27th Academy Awards, 1954
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Sabrina
- 28th Academy Awards, 1955
- Best Costume Design (Black and White — The Rose Tattoo
- Best Costume Design (Color) — To Catch a Thief
- 29th Academy Awards, 1956
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Proud and Profane
- Best Costume Design (Color) — The Ten Commandments (shared with Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg)
- 30th Academy Awards, 1957
- Best Costume Design — Funny Face (shared with Hubert de Givenchy)
- 31st Academy Awards, 1958
- Best Costume Design — The Buccaneer (shared with Ralph Jester and John Jensen)
- 32nd Academy Awards, 1959
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Career
- Best Costume Design (Color) — The Five Pennies
- 33rd Academy Awards, 1960
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Facts of Life (shared with Edward Stevenson)
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Pepe
- 34th Academy Awards, 1961
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Pocketful of Miracles (shared with Walter Plunkett)
- 35th Academy Awards, 1962
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Best Costume Design (Color) — My Geisha
- 36th Academy Awards, 1963
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Love with the Proper Stranger
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — Wives and Lovers
- Best Costume Design (Color) — A New Kind of Love
- 37th Academy Awards, 1964
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — A House Is Not a Home
- Best Costume Design (Color — What a Way to Go! (shared with Moss Mabry)
- 38th Academy Awards, 1965
- Best Costume Design (Black and White) — The Slender Thread
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Inside Daisy Clover (shared with Bill Thomas)
- 39th Academy Awards, 1966
- Best Costume Design (Color) — The Oscar
- 42nd Academy Awards, 1969
- Best Costume Design — Sweet Charity
- 43rd Academy Awards, 1970
- Best Costume Design — Airport
- 46th Academy Awards, 1973
- Best Costume Design — The Sting
- 48th Academy Awards, 1975
- Best Costume Design — The Man Who Would Be King
- 50th Academy Awards, 1977
- Best Costume Design — Airport '77 (shared with Burton Miller)
Notes[]
- ↑ Although Head won the Oscar for Best Costumes, most of Audrey Hepburn's "Parisian" ensembles were, in fact, designed by Hubert de Givenchy and chosen by the star herself. However, since the outfits were actually made in Edith Head's Paramount Studios costume department, some felt that doing so created enough of a technicality to nominate Head, instead of Givenchy. And, indeed, since she refused to have her name alongside Givenchy's in the credits, she was given credit for the costumes, even though the Academy's votes were obviously for Hepburn's attire. Head did not refuse the Oscar, however.