Best Costume Design Academy Award winners

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Albert Wolsky, Alexandra Byrne, Anthony Powell (designer), Antonella Cannarozzi, Bhanu Athaiya, Catherine Martin, Colleen Atwood, Deborah Lynn Scott, Dorothy Jeakins, Edith Head, Eiko Ishioka, Elois Jenssen, Emi Wada, Franca Squarciapino, Gabriella Pescucci, Jenny Beavan, John Mollo, John Truscott, Lindy Hemming, Lizzy Gardiner, Marcel Vertès, Margaret Furse, Marik Vos-Lundh, Marjorie Best, Mark Bridges (costume designer), Mary Wills, Michael O'Connor (costume designer), Milena Canonero, Orry-Kelly, Piero Gherardi, Renié, Richard Taylor (filmmaker), Sandy Powell (costume designer), Sanzo Wada, Theodor PiStek (costume designer), Theoni V. Aldredge, Walter Plunkett, Yvonne Blake. Excerpt: Edith Head (October 28, 1897 - October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, more than any other woman. She was born Edith Claire Posener in San Bernardino, California, the daughter of Jewish parents, Max Posener and Anna E. Levy. Her father, Max Posener, was a naturalized American citizen from Prussia, who came to the United States in 1876. Her mother was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of an Austrian father and a Bavarian mother. There is nothing to document if Max and Anna ever married or where they met. Just before Edith's birth, Max Posener opened a haberdashery in San Bernardino which failed within a year, and the stock and fixtures were liquidated. In 1905 Anna married mining engineer Frank Spare, originally from Pennsylvania. The family moved frequently as Spare's jobs moved, and the only place whose name Head could later recall from her early years was Searchlight, Nevada. Frank and Anna Spare passed Edith off as their mutual child. As Frank Spare was a Catholic, Edith ostensibly became one as well. She received a bachelor of arts degree in letters and sciences with honors in French from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1919 and earned a master of arts degree in romance languages from Stanford University in 1920. She became a language teacher with her first position at Bishop's School in La Jolla teaching French as a replacement. After one year, she took a position teaching French at the Hollywood School for Girls. Wanting a slightly higher salary, she told the school that she could also teach art, even though she had only briefly studied the discipline in high school. To improve her drawing skills, which at this point were rudimentary, she took evening art classes at the Chouinard Art College. On July 25, 1923, she married Charles Head, the brother of one of her Chouinard classmates, Betty Head. The marriage ended in divorce in 1936 after a number of years of separation, although she continued to be kn