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Occupation | Costume designer |
Holly Waddington is a British costume designer. [1] She won an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for fantasy comedy film Poor Things (2023).
Holly Waddington grew up in Lancashire. After moving to London, she trained at and worked for Angels Costume House as a ladies' period costume designer. [2] Waddington has a degree in Fine Art from Oxford University's Ruskin School of Art. [3]
This is a list of the winners and nominees of the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 2006, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Animated Film at an annual ceremony.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a 2023 American animated superhero film based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. A reboot of the Turtles film series, it was directed by Jeff Rowe and co-directed by Kyler Spears, from a screenplay and story written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Rowe, with Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit also credited to the former and Brendan O'Brien the latter. The film stars an ensemble voice cast with Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon as the four Turtles—Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael—and follows the group as they go on a hunt for a mysterious crime syndicate and face an army of mutants. The story explores themes of family, acceptance, and conformity.
Maestro is a 2023 American biographical romantic drama film that centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre. It was directed by Bradley Cooper, from a screenplay he wrote with Josh Singer. It was produced by Cooper, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Fred Berner and Amy Durning. The film stars Carey Mulligan as Montealegre alongside Cooper as Bernstein; Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, and Sarah Silverman appear in supporting roles.
All of Us Strangers is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, it follows Adam (Scott), a screenwriter preoccupied with memories of the past as he develops a relationship with mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal). It is the second feature adaptation of the novel, after the Japanese film The Discarnates (1988).
Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. It focuses on Bella Baxter, a fetus in the body of an adult woman in Victorian London who is saved from her mother's suicide via brain transplant and embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery.
Beef is an American comedy-drama television miniseries created by Korean-American director Lee Sung Jin for Netflix. It stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as Danny Cho and Amy Lau, two strangers whose involvement in a road rage incident escalates into a prolonged feud. Appearing in supporting roles are Joseph Lee, Young Mazino, David Choe, and Patti Yasutake.
May December is a 2023 American drama film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, it stars Natalie Portman as an actress who travels to meet and study the life of Gracie, the controversial woman she is set to play in a film—a woman infamous for the 23-year-long relationship with her husband Joe, which began when he was 13 years old and she was 36.
American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise. It stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David.
20 Days in Mariupol is a 2023 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Mstyslav Chernov.
American Symphony is a 2023 American biographical documentary film, written, shot, and edited by Matthew Heineman. It explores a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste, his music career, and his wife's struggle with leukemia.
The 29th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2023. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Chelsea Handler, marking her second consecutive year hosting the ceremony.
The 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, is the 2024 edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which took place from February 7 to February 17, 2024, at Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards, honoring excellence in film, television, and short form costume design for 2023, were held on February 21, 2024, at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles. The nominations were announced on January 4, 2024.
The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Costume Design is one of several categories presented by the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), an association of professional film critics, who work in print, broadcast and online media, based in Chicago. Since the 32nd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2019), the award has been presented annually. The first Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Costume Design went to Jacqueline Durran for her work on Little Women. The most recent recipient of this award is Holly Waddington for the film Poor Things. British costume designer Jacqueline Durran has the most nominations (3) and the most wins (2). Both Ruth E. Carter and Jacqueline West have two nominations, but no wins. Alexandra Byrne, Shirley Kurata, and Holly Waddington have one win from one nomination.
Dave Crossman also known as David Crossman, is a British costume designer for film and television. He is best known for his work on Napoleon, The Batman, 1917 and Rogue One.