10th ANNUAL COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS
WINNERS FOR THE 10th ANNUAL COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS
Excellence in Contemporary Film:
Julie Weiss – "Blades of Glory"
Excellence in Period Film:
Colleen Atwood – "Sweeney Todd"
Excellence in Fantasy Film:
Ruth Myers – "Golden Compass"
Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Miniseries:
Mario Davignon – "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
Outstanding Contemporary TV Series:
Eduardo Castro – "Ugly Betty"
Outstanding Period/Fantasy TV Series:
Robert Blackman – "Pushing Daisies"
Excellence in Commercial Costume Design:
Deborah Ferguson – "Capitol One, Princess Kiss"
Career Achievement in Film:
Ruth Myers
Lacoste Career Achievement in Television:
Ray Aghayan
Swarovski President's Award:
Paula Wagner
Hall of Fame:
Marit Allen
Distinguished Director/ Producer Award:
James Mangold and Cathy Konrad
10th ANNUAL COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS – HONOREES
Anjelica Huston – 10th Annual CDG Awards Host
ANJELICA HUSTON is an Academy Award-winning actress and critically acclaimed director. Raised in Ireland, Huston is part of the third generation of a renowned cinematic legacy. Huston has made extraordinary characters come to life with her memorable performances in films as diverse as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Dead, The Addams Family, Grifters, The Witches, The Crossing Guardand The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and on television in The Mists of Avalon, Buffalo Girls and Lonesome Dove. Huston received an Academy Award for her role in Prizzi's Honor, directed by her father, John Huston. Huston won a Golden Globe Award for her role in HBO's original movie Iron Jawed Angels. She made her directorial debut in 1996 with Bastard Out Of Carolina and was nominated for a Director's Guild of America Award and an Emmy Award for her work on the controversial drama. Additionally, she has received the Women in Film Crystal Award and the MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts. She supports numerous charities, organizations and institutions, including The Freedom Campaign, Global Green USA, Planet Hope, Project Angel Food, The Library Foundation and Amnesty International. Huston most recently appeared in an acclaimed cameo in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and currently can be seen in NBC's hit series Medium opposite Patricia Arquette.
Paula Wagner – Co-Owner, Chief Executive Officer, United Artists Entertainment, LLC
The Swarovski President's Award
PAULA WAGNER, a co-owner of United Artists Entertainment, LLC (along with Tom Cruise and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.), also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all its day-to-day operations. She and Cruise, her longtime business partner, took charge of United Artists in November 2006, with the aim of reviving the venerable studio founded nearly 90 years ago by movie legends Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith. Since then, the reborn studio has released its first film, the political thriller Lions for Lambs, directed by Robert Redford and co-starring Redford, Meryl Streep, and Cruise, and will release its second film, the World War II thriller Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Cruise, in 2008.
Wagner came to United Artists after 15 years at Creative Artists Agency as one of the entertainment industry's top talent agents and 13 years as co-owner of Cruise/Wagner Productions, which she and Cruise founded in 1993. While at C/W, she and Cruise produced a wide range of pictures that earned numerous awards, widespread critical praise, and global box office success. The first film released under the C/W banner was the international hit Mission: Impossible, the success of which brought the company the 1997 Nova Award for Most Promising Producers in Theatrical Motion Pictures. Cruise/Wagner Productions went on to produce such critically acclaimed films as Without Limits, Shattered Glass, Narc, The Others, Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown, The Last Samurai, and Ask the Dust, not to mention such international blockbusters as Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (which Wagner executive produced) and Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III, which Wagner produced. In all, in the decade that separated Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible III, films produced by Cruise/Wagner Productions earned more than $3 billion in worldwide box office receipts.
In 2001 Wagner was honored by Premiere magazine with the Women in Hollywood Icon Award. The following year she was featured in Bravo's Women on Top, a documentary profiling exceptional women in entertainment. In 2004, she and Cruise were honored by Daily Variety as "Billion-Dollar Producers." That same year Wagner and Cruise received the UCLA/Producers Guild of America Vision Award. In 2006 Wagner was the recipient of the Excellence in Producing Award at Sarasota Film Festival and served as the President of the First-Time Directors Jury at the Venice Film Festival.
Wagner serves on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her Bachelors in Fine Arts. She is a member of the American Cinematheque's Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Wagner also serves on the board of Interlochen Center for the Arts and the National Film Preservation Foundation through the Library of Congress. In 2006 Wagner marked her fourth year as co-chair of the Hollywood Film Festival.
James Mangold – Writer/Director
Distinguished Director/Producer Award
With seven feature films to date, including the award winning Walk the Line, Heavy, and Girl, Interrupted, JAMES MANGOLD is a director known for making sophisticated ensemble films in a wide range of genres, while keeping constant the powerful themes, original characterizations, sterling performances and striking imagery that have come to define and unify his work.
Mangold's most recent film is the classic western 3:10 To Yuma, another story of inner and moral struggles set in the rugged landscape of the American West during construction of the transcontinental railroad. Starring Christian Bale and Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe and based on the Elmore Leonard short story, Yuma is co-written and directed by Mangold. The film opened in the Fall of 2007 to critical acclaim and box office success. He also directed the pilot episode of the television drama Men In Trees starring Anne Heche that ABC debuted in the Fall of 2006. This fun and sexy ensemble drama continues to capture audiences and has gained in popularity in its primetime slot. Both projects are produced by Mangold and Cathy Konrad's production company, Tree Line Film.
The son of renowned painters, Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, James was raised in New York's Hudson Valley. He graduated in film and acting from California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Alexander Mackendrick ( Sweet Smell of Success, The Ladykillers). He broke into the film business at the age of 21 as the recipient of a prestigious writer director deal with Disney. After a few years in Hollywood he decided to go to Columbia University's film school, where he began writing the film Heavy while studying under Oscar winning director Milos Forman. Heavy went on to win the Director's Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and was selected to represent the United States at Director's Fortnight in the Cannes Film Festival.
Following the critical success of Heavy, Mangold began production on his second film Cop Land, an Urban Western set in modern day New Jersey starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta and Jeanine Garafalo. The film was accepted into the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival and premiered in the U.S. to strong reviews. It was on this film that he began his enduring creative partnership with Producer Cathy Konrad (Kids, Beautiful Girls, Citizen Ruth, Scream and all of Mangold's subsequent films).
Mangold continued his tradition of documenting the inner struggles of conflicted individuals by adapting Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted for the screen. The film went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and Oscar for Angelina Jolie's performance as Lisa, the charming sociopath who befriends the protagonist played by Winona Ryder. He then went on to make the romantic comedy Kate and Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman and the mind-bending thriller Identity starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta.
Walk the Line, an enormous success with critics and audiences alike, starred Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as the legendary music couple Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Both actors performed their own vocals for the movie, and took home Golden Globes for their performances and the film also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. At the Oscars the film received five nominations and Witherspoon won for Best Performance by an Actress. A project long in the works—Mangold and Konrad began work on it a decade ago—it was developed with the assistance and collaboration of John and June Carter Cash until their deaths in 2003.
Cathy Konrad – Producer
Distinguished Director/Producer Award
CATHY KONRAD has produced 17 feature films. She is widely recognized in the industry for launching new filmmakers and writers, and for her choices in material, which are both artistically progressive and commercially viable.
Cathy Konrad and James Mangold's most recent film is the remake of the classic western, 3:10 To Yuma, starring Christian Bale and Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe and based on the Elmore Leonard short story. Yuma was released by Lionsgate in the Fall of 2007 and met with critical acclaim. They are starting pre-production on Mute Witness, a remake of the British indie thriller, set up at Spyglass. Other recent projects include Men In Trees starring Anne Heche that ABC debuted in the Fall 2006. This fun and sexy ensemble drama continues to capture audiences and has gained in popularity in its primetime slot. Men In Trees is produced by Mangold and Cathy Konrad's production company, Tree Line Film.
In 2005 Konrad and her partner, writer/director James Mangold, completed Walk the Line (Twentieth Century Fox), a biopic about the turbulent life of music legend Johnny Cash and his lifelong romance with singer songwriter, June Carter. Mangold co-wrote and directed, and Konrad produced under their production banner Tree Line Film. Walk the Line, an enormous success with critics and audiences alike, starred Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as the legendary music couple Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Both actors performed their own vocals for the movie, and took home Golden Globes for their performances and the film also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. At the Oscars the film received five nominations and Witherspoon won for Best Performance by an Actress. A project long in the works—Mangold and Konrad began work on it a decade ago—it was developed with the assistance and collaboration of John and June Carter Cash until their deaths in 2003.
2002 saw the release of the psychological thriller Identity starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Ray Liotta, Clea DuVall and Alfred Molina as travelers stranded in a desert storm. The film topped the box office its opening weekend, and went on to gross over $90 million worldwide.
In 2001 Konrad produced both The Sweetest Thing starring Cameron Diaz and Kate and Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, and directed by Mangold. She was also the executive producer of LIFT, an urban drama starring Kerry Washington, which debuted at Sundance and premiered on Showtime.
In 1999 Konrad produced Girl, Interrupted, which won Angelina Jolie an Academy Award as best supporting actress, and also completed the final installment of the highly successful Scream trilogy, (all three of which were produced by Konrad and directed by Wes Craven). Scream and its sequels have grossed more than $350 million dollars worldwide, making it the most lucrative horror franchise of all time.
Other films Konrad has produced include Kids, the controversial and critically acclaimed debut film by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, directed by Gary Fleder and written by Scott Rosenberg, Alexander Payne's debut film Citizen Ruth, Beautiful Girls directed by Ted Demme and written by Rosenberg, Wide Awake written and directed by M. Night Shamalyan, Teaching Mrs. Tingle written and directed by Kevin Williamson, and Cop Land written and directed by Mangold, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta.
Ruth Myers
Lacoste Career Achievement in Film Award
Two-time Academy Award Nominated Costume Designer RUTH MYERS was brought up in Manchester, England. She trained at St. Martin's School of Art in London, then went to work at the Royal Court Theatre on a student grant, followed by a year working in repertory. Ms. Myers next returned to the Royal Court, contributing to at least 15 productions, including John Osborne's Hotel in Amsterdam and Time Present, and David Hare's Stag.
Myers first professional assignment was sewing sequins all night long for the great costume designer Anthony Powell. During this period, she worked as an assistant to the legendary Sophie Devine, aka "Motley," who created the costumes for many of the early classic English films, including director David Lean's Great Expectations. With Devine's encouragement, Ms. Myers started to design for the theater and then for low-budget English films beginning in 1967 with Smashing Time (now famous for its era-defining Mod look), A Touch of Class, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class and The Twelve Chairs. Gene Wilder persuaded her to come to America where she collaborated with him on The World's Greatest Lover, The Woman in Red and Haunted Honeymoon.
Ms. Myers met her late husband, noted Production Designer Richard MacDonald, while designing Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman. As a couple they enjoyed a dynamic partnership on films that include Sydney Pollack's The Firm, Fred Schepsi's Plenty and The Russia House, Norman Jewison's And Justice For All, Ken Russell's Altered States, Jack Clayton's Something Wicked This Way Comes, Lawrence Kasdan's The Accidental Tourist and Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family, for which Ms. Myers received an Academy Award nomination in 1992.
Since 1993, she has designed more than 30 films, including Curtis Hanson's acclaimed L.A. Confidential. Myers collaborated with director Douglas McGrath on Jane Austen's Emma, for which she earned her second Academy Award nomination, Nicholas Nickelby and Infamous, going on to design Taylor Hackford's Proof of Life, Mimi Leder's Deep Impact and John Curran's The Painted Veil. Her most recent film projects are the fantasy adventure The Golden Compass directed by Chris Weitz, and the forthcoming City of Ember directed by Gil Kenan.
In 2003 Ms. Myers designed the pilot episode of HBO's Carnivale. She created the look for the continuing series and garnered an Emmy for her costume design of "carny" life during the dustbowl of 1934.
Ray Aghayan
The Career Achievement in Television Award
Born in Tehran, Iran into an Armenian family, it was a long journey to Hollywood for RAY AGHAYAN. His creative spark was evident quite early in life. His mother, a society couturier in Tehran, would often ask for her precocious son's input. At fourteen he designed the glamorous mourning clothes for the wife of the Shah of Iran, Queen Fawzia. Always a fan of Hollywood and its mythical glamour, a seventeen year old Aghayan somehow persuaded his mother to let him move to Los Angeles by himself to pursue his dream of becoming a movie star! Arriving in Hollywood, he soon realized that maybe "Movie Star" wasn't going to happen right away. After several years of studying acting and directing, he began producing, directing and, of course, designing the costumes for his own productions. Needing steady work, he decided to accept the job as costume designer at NBC Television and soon was designing the most prestigious dramas and musical variety shows on the air. In 1963 he was chosen as the designer for The Judy Garland Show and Judy Never Looked So Good.
Aghayan was instrumental in persuading The Television Academy to officially recognize the contribution of costume designers. Along with Bob Mackie, Ray won the first ever Emmy Award in 1967 for Costume Design for Alice Through the Looking Glass. He went on to be nominated for nine Emmy Awards and has won three statuettes.
Partnered with Bob Mackie, Ray designed the opening of Hallelujah Hollywood at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas which encompassed a mere 940 costumes. He designed the costumes for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and from 1968 to 2001, over a dozen Academy Award presentations. Aghayan has designed television specials starring Julie Andrews, Fred Astaire, Pearl Bailey, Lucille Ball, Diahann Carroll, Carol Channing, Cyd Charisse, Bill Cosby, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lola Falana, Mitzi Gaynor, Betty Hutton, The Jackson Five, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Shirley MacLaine, Jim Nabors, Juliette Prowse, Diana Ross, Dinah Shore, The Smothers Brothers, Danny Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Leslie Uggams, Raquel Welch, and Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans.
Aghayan was nominated for an Oscar for Costume Design for Gaily Gaily, and for Lady Sings the Blues and Funny Lady (both with Bob Mackie). His other films include Dr. Doolittle starring Rex Harrison, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, The Art of Love, Hannie Caulder, and Do Not Disturb, The Glass Bottom Boat, and Caprice, all starring Doris Day. On Broadway Aghayan was nominated for a Tony award for Best Costume Design for Applause. He designed Vintage 60, The Egg and I (with Bob Mackie) the costumes for the revival of On The Town (1971) and for Carol Channing in Lorelei.
Ray Aghayan also worked as a producer for series and telefilms. It took him nine years to bring the novel Consenting Adult to television. Written by Laura Z. Hobson, this was the story about a gay son coming out to his family that became a landmark made-for-television movie in 1985.
Swarovski – official sponsor of the 10th Annual CDG Awards
