Anthony Powell, the British costume dressmaker whose a few years-long career yielded three Academy Awards, died Sunday at age 85.
“My supreme friend, my mentor, Anthony Powell passed away final evening,” fellow dressmaker Scott Traugott launched on Fb Monday. We now have lost a ultimate dressmaker, a professional gentleman. I turn into so honored to appear at in his shadow on many productions. A light-weight has dimmed in our universe. He taught me so well-known, and helped me so well-known. I will in actual fact glide over him. The entire lot turn into prompt with a indubitably humorous Hollywood memoir.”
The Costume Designers Guild also confirmed the tips in a assertion Monday on Fb: “Legendary English costume dressmaker Anthony Powell passed away final weekend. He’ll be famend in a exiguous, non-public gathering attributable to COVID restrictions and is survived by two nieces,”
A grasp of length detail, he earned his Oscars for “Travels With My Aunt” (1972), the Agatha Christie adaptation “Loss of life on the Nile” (1978) and “Tess” (1979). He purchased extra nominations for 2 more story-oriented films, Steven Spielberg’s 1991 take on Peter Pan, “Hook” and for Disney’s reside-motion 2000 movie “102 Dalmatians.”
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His characteristic credit also embrace “Papillon” (1973), “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” (1976), “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) and “101 Dalmatians” (1996) and the British survey caper “The Avengers” (1998) with Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery.
His most most modern conceal credit came in in 2006 for the Renée Zellweger-led Beatrix Potter biopic “Omit Potter.”
Powell, who received his beginning up designing costumes for British theater, also won a Tony Award for his work on the 1963 revival “Faculty for Scandal” and earned any other nomination in 1995 designing the robes for Glenn Finish in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard.”
