Awards & Winners

Alvin Colt

Date of Birth 05-July-1916
Place of Birth Louisville
(Kentucky, United States of America, Jefferson County, Area code 502)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Costume Designer
Alvin Colt was an American costume designer. Colt worked on over 50 Broadway shows. His first job was in a theatrical fabric house, he also worked on painting scenery during the summer. On the Town was the first Broadway show he worked on in 1944. His major Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls, Top Banana, Fanny, Finian's Rainbow, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Destry Rides Again, Wildcat, Here's Love, The Crucible, The Goodbye People, Sugar, Lorelei, Jerome Robbins' Broadway and Waiting in the Wings for producer Alexander H. Cohen, with whom he had a long working relationship. Alvin won a Tony Award in 1955 for Pipe Dream. The last official show he worked on was in 2001 for If you ever leave me...I'm going with you! Mr. Colt also designed for TV and film. Among his screen credits are costume designs for the films Top Banana, Stiletto and Li'l Abner and for the TV productions of The Enchanted Nutcracker, Kiss Me Kate, The Adams Chronicles, CBS: On the Air, Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood and many years of the Tony Awards. Alvin also designed the children's musical Treehouse Trolls Birthday Day for Goodtimes Entertainment. He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002.

Awards by Alvin Colt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alvin Colt.

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design - Variety or Music Program Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design - Variety or Music Program NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama or Comedy Series The Adams Chronicles

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Costume Design - Drama Special The Adams Chronicles

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Greenwillow

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Li'l Abner
Tony Award for Best Costume Design The Sleeping Prince

1956


Tony Award for Best Costume Design
Honored for : Pipe Dream

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Pipe Dream
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Phoenix '55
Tony Award for Best Costume Design The Lark