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- ↑ Powers, Lindsay (20 January 2011). "Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees Announced". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ↑ "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
- ↑ "The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
