Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Last updated
Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Born (1943-12-26) December 26, 1943 (age 81)
OccupationCostume designer
Children2; including James Laxton [2]

Aggie Guerard Rodgers (born December 26, 1943) [3] is an American costume designer. [4] She is perhaps best known for creating the costumes for the Star Wars original film trilogy's final installment, Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as the fantasy horror comedy film Beetlejuice (1988). [5]

Contents

At the 58th Academy Awards, she was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for the film The Color Purple (1985). [6]

Selected filmography

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1973 American Graffiti George Lucas
1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Miloš Forman
1976 Alex & the Gypsy John Korty
1977 Three Warriors Kieth Merrill
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman
1979 More American Graffiti Bill L. Norton
1983 Return of the Jedi Richard Marquand with Nilo Rodis-Jamero
aka Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension W. D. Richter
1985 Cocoon Ron Howard
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Tim Burton
Warning Sign Hal Barwood
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg
1987 The Witches of Eastwick George Miller
Fatal Beauty Tom Holland
Leonard Part 6 Paul Weiland
Batteries Not Included Matthew Robbins
1988 Beetlejuice Tim Burton
My Stepmother Is an Alien Richard Benjamin
1989 In Country Norman Jewison
1990 I Love You to Death Lawrence Kasdan
1991 Late for Dinner W. D. Richter
Grand Canyon Lawrence Kasdan
1992 Forever Young Steve Miner
1993 Benny & Joon Jeremiah S. Chechik
The Fugitive Andrew Davis
1995 Wings of Courage Jean-Jacques Annaud
Something to Talk About Lasse Hallström
Mr. Holland's Opus Stephen Herek
1996 Jack Francis Ford Coppola
1997 Inventing the Abbotts Pat O'Connor
The Rainmaker Francis Ford Coppola
1998 Holy Man Stephen Herek
1999 The Hurricane Norman Jewison
2001 Evolution Ivan Reitman
Rock Star Stephen Herek
2002 Life or Something Like It
2003 Holes Andrew Davis
2004 The Assassination of Richard Nixon Niels Mueller
Raise Your Voice Sean McNamara
2005 Rent Chris Columbus
2006 Believe in Me Robert Collector
2008 Pig Hunt James Isaac
2009 La Mission Peter Bratt
2010 Leonie Hisako Matsui
2011 The Double Michael Brandt
2012Tales of Everyday Magic Michael A. Goorjian
2013 Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler
2015 Quitters Noah Pritzker
The Boat Builder Arnold Grossman
2016 Pushing Dead Tom E. Brown
2017American Paradise Joe Talbot Short film
Phoenix Forgotten Justin Barber
2020 Bad Therapy William Teitler
Love Is Love Is Love Eleanor Coppola Segments: "Sailing Lesson" and "Late Lunch"
2023Avenue of the Giants Finn Taylor

Awards and nominations

AwardYearCategoryWorkResultRef.
Academy Awards 1985 Best Costume Design The Color Purple Nominated [6]
Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005 Excellence in Period Film Rent Nominated [7]
2014 Career Achievement AwardHonored [8]
Saturn Awards 1983 Best Costume Design Return of the Jedi Won [9]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sandy Powell (costume designer)</span> English costume designer

Sandy Powell is an English costume designer. In a career spanning over three decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three 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.

Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across film and television. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and two Emmy Awards.

The 8th Costume Designers Guild Awards, given on February 26, 2006, honored the best costume designs in film and television for 2005. Winners highlighted in bold.

Alexandra Byrne is an English costume designer and set designer. Much of her career has focused on creating costumes for period dramas. These films include Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Finding Neverland (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), The Aeronauts (2019), and Emma. (2020). She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design six times, winning once for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ruth E. Carter</span> American costume designer

Ruth E. Carter is an American costume designer for film and television. She is best known for her collaborations with Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Ryan Coogler. During her film career, Carter has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Lee's biographical film Malcolm X (1992), Steven Spielberg's historical drama film Amistad (1997), and winning twice for Coogler's Marvel superhero films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). She was the first African-American to win and be nominated for Best Costume Design and the first Black woman to win multiple Academy Awards in any category. Her other film credits include Do the Right Thing (1989), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Love & Basketball (2000), Serenity (2005), The Butler (2013), Selma (2014), Marshall (2017), Dolemite Is My Name (2019), and Coming 2 America (2021).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catherine Martin (designer)</span> Australian designer and producer (born 1965)

Catherine Martin luhrmann is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and producer. She is known for her frequent collaborations with her husband, Baz Luhrmann. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards, and a Tony Award.

Jacqueline Durran is a British costume designer. In a career spanning over two decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and blockbusters. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, a British Academy Television Award, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milena Canonero</span> Italian designer and producer (born 1946)

Milena Canonero is an Italian costume designer, production designer, and film producer. In a career spanning over five decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards. She has been the recipient of various honorary awards, including the Honorary Golden Bear in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Wolsky</span> American costumer designer

Albert Wolsky is an American costume designer. He has worked both on stage shows as well as for film, and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design seven times, winning two awards for his work on the films All That Jazz (1979) and Bugsy (1991).

Lindy Hemming is a Welsh costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and blockbusters. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for the film Topsy-Turvy (1999).

Arianne Phillips is an American costume designer. Phillips was recognized for her work on the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris, earning her a Tony award nomination for Best Costume Design. Phillips has a long-standing relationship with Madonna, with collaborations including photos shoots, music videos and designing tour costumes for six world tours over the past two decades. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times, for James Mangold's Walk the Line (2005), Madonna's directorial debut, W.E. (2011), and for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Phillips has also received a three BAFTA Award nominations for Tom Ford’s A Single Man (2009), Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and James Mangold's A Complete Unknown.

Jacqueline West is an American fashion and costume designer. In a career spanning over three decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across small-scale productions as well as blockbusters. Her work appears in such acclaimed films as Quills (2000), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), Argo (2012), The Revenant (2015), Dune (2021), its sequel Dune: Part Two (2024), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times.

Michael O'Connor is an English costume designer. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times, winning for The Duchess (2008).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jenny Beavan</span> English costume designer (born 1950)

Jenny Beavan is an English costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award. Beavan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Zophres</span> American costume designer

Mary Zophres is an American costume designer. In a career spanning over three decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across independent films and blockbusters. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design four times.

Janty Yates 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 as of 2021.

Ruth Myers is an English costume designer. In a career spanning over five decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across film and television. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Costume Design for the films The Addams Family (1991) and Emma (1996).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anthea Sylbert</span> American costume designer (1939–2024)

Anthea Sylbert was an American film producer and costume designer, who was active during the "modern era" of American film. She was nominated twice for Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, first at the 47th Academy Awards for Chinatown (1974), and then at the 50th Academy Awards for her work on Julia (1977). In addition, she had more than ten credits as producer or executive producer, including for such works as CrissCross (1991) and the television film Truman (1995), the latter of which earned Sylbert an Emmy. At the 7th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards in 2005, Sylbert was an honoree, receiving the Lacoste Career Achievement award for film.

The Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film is one of the annual awards given by the Costume Designers Guild.

Marci Rodgers is an American costume designer for film, television and stage. She is best known for her work on Till, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, High Flying Bird and BlacKkKlansman.

References

  1. "Aggie Guerard Rodgers Biography". Fandango . Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  2. "Producer's Corner: Adele Romanski — The Myth of the American Sleepover by Serena Donadoni". Women and Hollywood. July 25, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  3. "Annie Guerard Rodgers". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  4. "Is Oscar sewn up for her?". The San Francisco Examiner . San Francisco, California. February 6, 1986. p. 19. Retrieved April 10, 2022 via Newspapers.com. Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  5. Randolph, Elizabeth (March 30, 2023). "Inside 'Beetlejuice' Fashion and Why We're Still Obsessed With It After 35 Years". Distractify.com. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
  6. 1 2 "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  7. "Costume Guild reveals noms". Variety . January 11, 2006. Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  8. Lewis, Hilary (January 14, 2015). "Costume Designers Guild Awards: Emmy Rossum to Host, Richard Linklater Getting Honorary Award". The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on December 25, 2024. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  9. "1983 | 11th Saturn Awards". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on February 13, 2006. Retrieved July 22, 2018.