Every week up until the Oscars, I'll be featuring the nominees in the various visual categories. This week, I'll be looking at the nominees for best costumes, and today's featured movie is The Queen.
Like any biographical drama, The Queen faces the challenge of reflecting the style and dress of actual people at a precise time in history. The costumes in The Queen accurately and naturally portray the Royal Family in 1997 London, so that they are a seamless (ha ha) aspect of the storytelling and not a distraction. In this case, it's not so much that the costumes are dazzling, as in Marie Antoinette or Dreamgirls, but that they are so normal that you never doubt the authenticity of the story.
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Nuovegioie
Mulberry
Luella
Loved Helen Mirren's SAG Award acceptance speech when she said she cried when she first saw the wardrobe that she had to wear. It is the ordinariness of those costumes that makes this such a great choice for this award. Loved the Scottish scenes, especially the tweeds, the kilts, the practical walking shoes and the scarves. And of course her hats and the ever present purse in her city "dress" wardrobe.
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