Look at me being really close to finishing a project. And in such semi-consistent doses, too!
Best Costume Design
- Michael Wilkinson for American Hustle, for the too-many-to-count miracle-numbers worked on Adams, alone, as well as the constant button rearranging on Cooper's part-detective, part-disco hothead; nearly everyone looks like they're playing a role in the best way possible.
- Suzy Benzinger for Blue Jasmine, for her distinguished efforts in distilling the looks of wealthy New York socialites and California bohemians and making both familiar Allen tropes seem less generic and built more from a character than they have since Bullets Over Broadway.
- Stacey Battat for The Bling Ring, for terrifically rendered and appropriate choices for the characters as well as its easy-target satire, finding model-shoot-ready garments for both the celebrities' stolen fashion items and the "normal" clothes. Bonus points for the courtroom apparel.
- Francois Barbeau & Xavier Dolan for Laurence Anyways, for warmly suggesting real emotions, real complications, and real people beneath the (gorgeously designed) period-specific affectation, even though I wish a little more effort had gone into Laurence's overall look.
- Mabolaji Dawodu for Mother of George, for playing into the film's visual motifs so beautifully and preserving the tonal reticence from which its observations emerge, adding just as many richly arranged textures to its characters as its exquisite cinematography does.
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 12 Years a Slave, Behind the Candelabra, Blancanieves, Fill the Void, The Grandmaster, The Great Gatsby, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Lovelace, No
Missed: The Invisible Woman. *sniffle* Another great letdown of 2013 is that I never saw Oprah's track suit in Lee Daniels' The Butler.
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