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Colleen Atwood

Costume & Make-Up

Born November 25, 1948 · Yakima, Washington, USA

Biography

Colleen Atwood (born September 25, 1948) is an American costume designer. Atwood has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design twelve times, winning four times - for the films Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016); the latter is the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award. She has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2017
  • Costume Designers Guild AwardExcellence in Fantasy Film · 2015
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2011
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2011
  • Costume Designers Guild AwardExcellence in Fantasy Film · 2011
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  • Costume Designers Guild AwardExcellence in Period Film · 2008
  • Emmy Award · 2007
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2006
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2006
  • Costume Designers Guild AwardExcellence in Period Film · 2006
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2003
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2000
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2017 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2015 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2013 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2011 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2011 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2010 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2008 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2006 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2006 · nominated
  • Emmy Award · 2006 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2005 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2003 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 2000 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Costume Design · 2000 · nominated
  • Costume Designers Guild Award · 2000 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 1999 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 1995 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Wednesday

2022Costume Design

The Silence of the Lambs

1991Costume Design

Masters of the Air

2024Costume Design

Big Fish

2003Costume Design

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

2006Costume Design

Philadelphia

1993Costume Design

Edward Scissorhands

1990Costume Design

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005Costume Design

Gattaca

1997Costume Design

Ed Wood

1994Costume Design

One Battle After Another

2025Costume Design

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016Costume Design

Little Women

1994Costume Design

Torch Song Trilogy

1988Costume Design

Lady and the Tramp

2019Costume Design

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007Costume Design

Sleepy Hollow

1999Costume Design

Chicago

2002Costume Design

Lorenzo's Oil

1992Costume Design

The Tick

2016Costume Design

Big Eyes

2014Costume Design

In Time

2011Costume Design

Manhunter

1986Costume Design

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

2024Costume Design

Hidden

2015Costume Design

That Thing You Do!

1996Costume Design

Bombshell

2019Costume Design

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018Costume Design

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016Costume Design

Mission: Impossible III

2006Costume Design

A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004Costume Design

Fallen

1998Costume Design

Wyatt Earp

1994Costume Design

Pain Hustlers

2023Costume Design

Freak Show

2017Costume Designer

Public Enemies

2009Costume Design

Rush

1991Costume Design

Out of the Darkness

1985Costume Designer

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022Costume Design

Dumbo

2019Costume Designer

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland

2010Costume Design

Mumford

1999Costume Design

For Keeps?

1988Costume Designer

Tomb Raider

2018Costume Design

Mars Attacks!

1996Costume Design

The Little Mermaid

2023Costume Design

The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016Costume Design

The Tourist

2010Costume Design

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2025Costume Design