Costumes & Make Up of the Academy Awards

Program Objectives: Costumes & Make Up of the Academy Awards

1. To enhance student interest in and knowledge about the motion picture development and production process
2. To encourage students to use critical thinking as they learn how visual effects work
3. To engage students in an exploration of film as an art form and a medium of communication
4. To help students become more media literate

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There are three categories of nominations below:

1. Costume Design     2. Makeup        3. Both Costume and Makeup

Directions: Review each category one at a time, and choose three movies from each of them that you are most interested in viewing. You do not have to watch the entire movie, instead you will be viewing video clips from each of them. 

1. Let me know which movies you are interested from each category in the comment box. Then I will post the video clips from them for you to work with.

2. Activity One - 

The following films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design, are available on DVD, and may be suitable for your students: (• indicates winners): • All That Jazz (1979); The Addams Family (1991); Malcolm X (1992); Beloved (1998); Sleepy Hollow (1999); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); 102 Dalmatians (2000); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001); Seabiscuit (2003); • The Aviator (2004); Troy(2004); Ray (2004); Pride & Prejudice (2005); Walk the Line (2005); Dreamgirls (2006); •Marie Antoinette (2006); The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

The following films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Makeup, are available on DVD, and may be suitable for your students (■ indicates winners): ■ An American Werewolf in London (1981); ■ Mask (1985); ■ The Fly (1986); ■ Harry and the Hendersons (1987); ■ Beetlejuice (1988); Edward Scissorhands (1990); ■ Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country (1991); ■ Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); ■ Men in Black (1997); Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999); A Beautiful Mind (2001); Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); ■ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); Cinderella Man(2005); Click (2006); ■ Pan’s Labyrinth (2006).

These features have been nominated for both Costume Design and Makeup, are available on DVD and may be appropriate for your students (• indicates Costume Design winners; ■ indicates Makeup winners): • Gandhi (1982); •■ Amadeus (1984); The Color Purple(1985); Coming to America (1988); The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989); •Cyrano de Bergerac (1990); ■ Dick Tracy (1990); •■ Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); ■Braveheart (1995); • Titanic (1997); ■ Elizabeth (1998); • Shakespeare in Love (1998); •■Topsy-Turvy (1999); ■ Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000); • Moulin Rouge(2001);
■ Frida (2002); •■ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); ■ Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).