For those who harbored hopes that Wes Anderson’s animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox might be eligible for a costume prize, it isn’t. My pal Jane in the Academy would happily vote for it—even if it was shot in stop-motion. But when we looked up the credits, we saw no designer. I checked with Fox Searchlight, and they confirm that there’s no official costume designer for the film.
That’s because all the costumes were conceptualized by Anderson, reports Searchlight, “and then the production used real seamstresses to sew each and every tiny costume.”
Anderson himself was the main designer, because he came up with most of the ideas for how each character should be dressed. But that’s not going to sit well with costume designers in the Academy or the costume design guild awards.
by Anne Thompson, posted to Awards, Oscars, Genres, Animation, Studios, Fox Searchlight on December 17, 2009 at 2:04pm PST | Permalink | Comments (2)
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