Gold Derby has conducted exclusive video chats with five of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design over the last few months. How will they do when the winners are announced on Sunday, February 24? Follow the links below to be taken to their full interviews.
Alexandra Byrne (“Mary Queen of Scots”): Costume designer Byrne returned to the Oscar race with this historical drama about the conflict between Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). Byrne’s last film about the famed monarch, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007), earned her a victory in this category. She previously competed for “Hamlet” (1996), “Elizabeth” (1998) and “Finding Neverland” (2004). (Click here to be taken to her full interview)
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Eugenio Caballero (“Roma”): Production designer Caballero competes for his work on Alfonso Cuaron‘s semi-autobiographical drama about growing up in Mexico City during the 1970s and the maid (Yalitza Aparicio) who helped raise him. A past Oscar winner for “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006), Caballero also contended at BAFTA, Critics’ Choice and the Art Directors Guild Awards for his work on this film. (Click here to be taken to his full interview)
Fiona Crombie (“The Favourite”): Production designer Crombie received her first Oscar nomination for this eccentric period piece about the rivalry between a noblewoman (Rachel Weisz) and a servant (Emma Stone) for the affections of frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). Her work has brought her victories at the BAFTAs and Art Directors Guild Awards, and she was also nominated at Critics’ Choice. (Click here to be taken to her full interview)
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Barbara Enriquez (“Roma”): Set decorator Enriquez earned her first Oscar nomination for Cuaron’s foreign-language memory piece. Alongside Caballero, she also picked up bids from the Art Directors Guild, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the BAFTAs. (Click here to be taken to her full interview)
Mary Zophres (“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”): Costume designer Zophres received her third Oscar nomination for this anthology of western stories from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. She previously competed for her work on another Coen cowboy flick, “True Grit” (2010), and then again for “La La Land” (2016). “Scruggs” brought her an additional bid at the BAFTAs. (Click here to be taken to her full interview)
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Be sure to check out how our experts rank this year’s Oscar contenders. Then take a look at the most up-to-date combined odds before you make your own 2019 Oscar predictions. Don’t be afraid to jump in now since you can keep changing your predictions until just before winners are announced on February 24.
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