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the Woods’ o filmgoers care if a movie takes liberties rival in the crucial final stages of an Oscars cam- with facts? More critically in awards season, paign. “Your competition is often responsible for Dcan doubts about the truth of a film torpe- pulling the tapestry out from under your feet,” he top Costume do Academy hopes? Or do Oscars voters not really told AFP. Tom O’Neil, of the award season ranking mind as long as they get a good story? For several and analysis website Goldderby.com, is more of the pictures eyeing Oscars glory on Sunday, in nuanced. Members of the Academy of Motion Designers Guild theory based on real events, those are vital ques- Picture Arts and Sciences “are very tolerant of liber- tions. ties screenwriters take and of the fact that a role Director Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr can get sanitized,” he said. “I don’t think the Awards movie “Selma” is accused of misrepresenting presi- ‘American Sniper’ controversy could hurt Bradley dent Lyndon Johnson as an enemy of the civil Cooper,” its main star, he added, saying: “It could rights icon. Some critics have slammed “American even help him. Voters might want to help an Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s movie about elite US American hero if they feel he’s under attack.” sharpshooter Chris Kyle-credited with killing at least 160 people in Iraq-for allegedly glorifying a mass murderer. Other recent films which generated ‘Help viewers escape’ Mindy Kaling arrives at the polemics included “Zero Dark Thirty,” which com- “The Theory of Everything,” about British astro- 17th Costume Designers Guild peted for the Oscars in 2013. Some accused it of physicist Stephen Hawking, is another accused of Awards at the Beverly Hilton making a heroine out of a CIA agent who practiced taking liberties-this time with chronology and mis- Hotel. — AP torture, while others said it helped re-elect portraying his relationship with his first wife Jane. President Barack Obama. That was the year that the O’Neil said: “It’s a love story that’s being told, peo- Best Picture Oscar went to “Argo,” about a bold CIA ple are rooting for this story,” so it probably didn’t he Costume Designers Guild Awards may come costume designers: We’re all pretty full of ourselves, operation to rescue six US diplomats trapped in impact the movie’s awards season prospects. But too late to influence the Oscars race, but they we think we can do everything, but I don’t know one Iran by the 1979 hostage crisis. he added: “The controversy over Lyndon Johnson Tmanaged to confirm what already seems to be director who thinks he can be a costume designer. in ‘Selma’ may have hurt that film. clear: “Birdman” is the film to beat. Albert Wolsky won We’re in awe of your talents.” He finished with a thank American hero attacked “They can tinker with facts but you need to know the contemporary film category for Alejandro you to his regular costume designer, Kari Perkins, not- The film, directed by Ben Affleck, was accused of who’s the hero and who’s the villain.” Oscars voters Gonzalez Inarritu’s backstage tale, while legends ing that “Boyhood” was a period story that was con- playing fast and loose with the facts, notably failing don’t like it when a character’s historical role or per- Colleen Atwood and Milena Canonero took prizes for temporary when it was shot. “It’s a very inexpensive to give credit for the major role Canada had in sonality is transformed from one to the other, he “Into the Woods” (fantasy film) and “The Grand way to do a period piece,” he quipped. “You just shoot securing the US diplomats’ freedom. In earlier years said. But Nunan said that some playing with the Budapest Hotel” (period film). it and wait a long time.”Deborah Nadoolman Landis Oliver Stone’s “JFK” in 1991 and Ron Howard’s 2001 facts-though not too much-was inevitable. “A “Birdman” has a broad swath of awards support received the inaugural Edith Head Award for the movie “A Beautiful Mind” also fueled controversy. motion picture has to take some liberties, otherwise from numerous guilds, but “The Grand Budapest Advancement and Education of the Art of Costume “It doesn’t help a movie to have controversy it won’t win the viewers emotionally,” he said. “The Hotel” is hot on its heels among design orgs. In the TV Design. Her husband of 40 years, director John Landis, over it,” said Tom Nunan, who produced the Oscar cinema experience is meant to entertain and help categories, oft-honored “American Horror Story: Freak introduced her and recounted how in 1997 she invit- Best Picture “Crash” and who teaches at the UCLA viewers escape the real world,” he added. — AFP Show” took honors for made-for/miniseries. “True ed a group of designers to their home and suggested School of Theatre, Film and Television. Moreover, “it Detective” was honored as top contemporary TV an annual dinner for costume designers, reasoning is not a coincidence that those controversies are series, and Michele Clapton won for “Game of costume designers rarely see each other and the happening now,” when it could help to eliminate a Thrones” in the period/fantasy TV series category. event would build solidarity. That was the genesis of Colleen Atwood, winner for “Into the Woods” in the the CDGA Awards banquet. fantasy film category, recounted a fitting the day Before the show, Deborah Landis told Variety she before where an actor was complaining in front of the relished the chance to see old friends such as “The mirror, saying “I was thinking it would be more color- Grand Budapest Hotel” designer Milena Canonero, ful.” “I told him ‘I was thinking it would be for a 32-inch who spends much of her time in Europe nowadays. waist, not a 38,’” she said, sending the audience into a Said Landis, “It’s really about having a drink and a roar of laughter-and approval. But she also thanked good laugh with your friends and professional col- her director Rob Marshall for making her feel appreci- leagues.” At the podium, she thanked a long list of ated and valued on the film-something that doesn’t supporters and influencers, including “Angie Jones at always happen. the NBC costume department. who co-signed a car Harrison Ford gave a heartfelt presentation of San loan one week after I started because I’d be working Francisco-based designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers, the somewhere in three years.” She reminded the gather- 2015 career achievement honoree, with whom he did ing that Edith Head was a founder of the Guild, and five films. He quoted her saying “I am very interested said “When you are negotiating for your next project, in the common man.” “As a common man, I am very be brave. Consider: What would Edith do?” glad for that interest,” said Ford. “She said ‘My movies Naomi Watts, Lacoste Spotlight honoree, was the last do look like me.’ So it’s not surprising her movies have to the podium. “Just watching the clips,” she quipped, “I such genuine beauty and resonance.” Ford recounted am really glad I have it in my contract I get to keep all the how on “The Conversation,” he didn’t get the part he clothes. There are so many good outfits in there.” She auditioned for, but Francis Coppola wrote in a part of recalled her mother sewing clothes at home, then “Young Man” for him, with two scenes. “Aggie and I becoming a costume designer herself. “That had to have conspired to put me in a $900 billiard green Brioni suit fueled my passion to become an actress, because I saw it and a $500 pair of fancy-ass Italian shoes.” On set, so close-up,” she said. — Reuters Coppola asked to see him in his costume. “Francis looked at his investment,” said Ford, “And I had four more scenes.” “That’s what you people do,” he said. “You do what cannot be done.”

‘In awe of your talents’ Receiving the Distinguished Collaborator Award, Bradley Cooper and director Clint Eastwood on the set during the making of the Oscar nominated film Richard Linklater said “I’m here as a director to tell all ‘American Sniper’.

HBO renews ‘Pirates’ and ‘X-men’ Oliver for 2 get production boosts more seasons ’Days’ and ‘Ahoys’ were probably exchanged aplen- again producing, with Espen Sandberg and Joachim BO says it has picked up two more sea- ty today on the set of Disney’s “Pirates of the Ronning (the team behind “Kon-Tiki”) directing a script by sons of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” ‘G Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” which has Jeff Nathanson (“Catch Me If You Can”). “Pirates of the which puts to rest any thought that commenced production in Queensland, Australia. The fifth Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is slated to bow in the- H film in the franchise brings Johnny Depp and Javier Bardem aters July 7, 2017. Oliver would return to Comedy Central to replace Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” Oliver down under for plenty of swashbuckling. Shooting will take Kodi Smit-McPhee has been cast as Nightcrawler in just began the second season at HBO of his crit- place both on location in Queensland and in the Village Bryan Singer’s “X-Men: Apocalypse” opposite Jennifer ically acclaimed comedy show. HBO said it has Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast. Depp returns to the Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Michael Fassbender. “Excited agreed to air 35 new episodes each in 2016 and role of Captain Jack Sparrow, who in this film will be targeted to welcome @kodismitmcphee to the cast of 2017. by the villainous Captain Salazar (Bardem) as Sparrow #XmenApocalypse as young #Nightcrawler,” Singer said in a Michael Lombardo, president of HBO pro- searches for Poseidon’s trident in hopes of fending off “dead- posting to his Instagram account on Tuesday night.Smit- gramming, said Tuesday that Oliver’s “unique ly ghost pirates,” per a press release from the studio. McPhee’s credits include “The Road,” the lead voice in the ability to deliver socially significant commen- Orlando Bloom returns to the series to shiver more tim- animated “ParaNorman” and “Dawn of the Planet of the tary week after week, along with his innate bers after skipping the fourth installment, “Pirates of the Apes.” In the X-Men universe, Nightcrawler is a mutant with comedic brilliance, puts John in a class by him- Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” Bloom will reprise his role as adhesive hands and feet and the ability to teleport. self.” Oliver came to HBO’s attention when he Will Turner, and Turner’s relationship with his son (played by newcomer Brenton Thwaites) is rumored to loom large in subbed for Stewart at “The Daily Show” during Kodi Smit-McPhee the summer of 2013. Stewart announced last the plot of “Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Jerry Bruckheimer is week he was leaving “The Daily Show.” — AP