Edith Head - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	28-October-1897
Place of Birth	San Bernardino (San Bernardino County, California, United States of America, Area code 909)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Edith Claire Posener, The Doctor, Queen of the shirtwaisters, Edith Claire Posener
Profession	Costume Designer
Quotes	A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, starting with The Heiress and ending with The Sting. This is still a record in its category. Born and raised in California, Head managed to get a job as a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures, without any relevant training. She first acquired notability for Dorothy Lamourâ€™s trademark sarong dress, and then became a household name after the Academy Awards created a new category of Costume Designer in 1948. Head was considered exceptional for her close working relationships with her subjects, with whom she consulted extensively, and these included virtually every top female star in Hollywood. After 43 years she left Paramount for Universal, possibly because of her successful partnership with Hitchcock, and also adapted her skills for television.

Awards by Edith Head

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edith Head.

1977

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Airport '77

1976

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design	The Man Who Would Be King

1975

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Man Who Would Be King

1973

Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Honored for : The Sting

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Sting

1970

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Airport

1969

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Sweet Charity

1966

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Oscar

1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Inside Daisy Clover
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Slender Thread

1964

Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	What a Way to Go!
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	A House Is Not a Home

1963

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	A New Kind of Love
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Love with the Proper Stranger
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Wives and Lovers

1962

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	My Geisha

1961

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Pocketful of Miracles

1960

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : The Facts of Life

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Pepe
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Facts of Life

1959

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Five Pennies
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Career

1958

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Buccaneer

1957

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Funny Face

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Ten Commandments
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Proud and Profane

1955

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	To Catch a Thief
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Rose Tattoo

1954

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : Sabrina

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Sabrina

1953

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : Roman Holiday

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Roman Holiday

1952

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Greatest Show on Earth
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Carrie

1951

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : A Place in the Sun

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	A Place in the Sun

1950

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : All About Eve

Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Honored for : Samson and Delilah

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	Samson and Delilah
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	All About Eve

1949

Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Honored for : The Heiress

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	The Heiress

1948

Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Costume Design	The Emperor Waltz

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