Just like with Oscar ballots I'm weighting these with #1 as my top choice and so on down the list.
1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Jacqueline Durran
Tinker is the only film to make my ballots in all the visual categories. The costumes are like every other element of the film: perfectly detailed without being showy, enhancing the power of the story without calling attention to itself. With so much to keep straight in the story the costumes give a lot of information in a little time.
2. The Skin I Live In - Paco Delgado and Jean Paul Gaultier
Skin wins on boldness and originality. I had never seen anything like these costumes before. And for a horror film without thunder and lightning a lot of the disturbing vibes originate from those unsettling face masks, tiger costumes, and body suits.
3. Meek's Cutoff - Vicki Farrell
Quality over quantity. Each costume is a pitch-perfect compliment to the characters and convincingly worn and authentic.
4. Hugo - Sandy Powell
Scorsese gives Powell a golden opportunity to strut her stuff and she delivers a bonanza of elaborate, eye-catching costumes suitable for a candy-coloredd children's story. Like the rest of Hugo, subtle it isn't, but it's hard to deny the visual treat.
5. Midnight in Paris - Sonia Grande
More Worthy Costumes
Young Adult had a lot of fun with Charlize with as a stylish fish out of water in a sea of suburban flannel and T-shirts. Coriolanus was a fantastic mash-up of military reality and Shakespearean theatricality. Jane Eyre gave a gothic flair to the same old corsets and bonnets. The Artist had fun with old Hollywood style, especially during the film-within-a-film sequences. Drive’s scorpion jacket got all the attention, but every character has a strong, distinctive look. A Dangerous Method buttoned up all the sexual tension in some memorably ornate clothes.
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