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Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head Film Editing - Warren Low Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
Apr 14, 2020 · April 14, 2020. 1956 Academy Awards – Costume Design (Color) Winner. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Charles Le Maire. A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s Communist revolution. Amazon. 1956 Academy Awards – Costume Design (Color) Nominees.
On February 17, 1957, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted to instruct Price Waterhouse & Co. “…to list five nominations, and in the event that one of these is declared ineligible under the By-Law provision, four nominations would appear on the final ballot.”
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given out at the 21st Academy Awards, held on March 24, 1949. The award had two subcategories, one for films in black and white and one for films in color.
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope.
1956's Costume Design Oscar Winners The 1956 Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957 and hosted by Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm in the RKO Theatre in Hollywood, California. The ceremonies were also televised from NBC Century Theatre in New York City.
Edith Claire Head (née Posenor, [1] October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design [3] between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history.
