Poor Things has gotten off to a strong start at tonight’s 96th Oscars. In a mini-upset, the absurdist comedy directed by Yorgas Lanthimos and starring and produced by Emma Stone has taken statuettes for Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling and Costume Design.
See the winners acceptance speeches above and below. RELATED: The Script’s The Thing: Read All Of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Screenplays James Price and Shona Heath, along with set decorator Zsuzsa Mihalek, was the production design team behind the Searchlight Pictures film.
Price, Heath and Mihalek bested the teams behind Oppenheimer (production design: Ruth De Jong; set decoration: Claire Kaufman); Barbie (production design: Sarah Greenwood; set decoration: Katie Spencer); Killers of the Flower Moon (production design: Jack Fisk; set decoration: Adam Willis) and Napoleonproduction design: Arthur Max; set decoration: Elli Griff). RELATED: 2024 Oscar Winners Photo Gallery The Poor Things team also took the Art Directors Guild’s Fantasy film award for production design last month and Oppenheimer took the ADG’s Period film award. RELATED: Deadline’s Oscars Live Blog Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston were honored in the Makeup & Hairstyling category, besting MUAHS Awards winner Maestro and the teams behind Golda, Oppenheimer and Society of the Snow. RELATED: Security Snafus Complicate Oscar Arrivals Holly Waddington took the Oscar for Costume Design, beating Jacqueline Durran for Barbie, Jacqueline West for Killer of the Flower Moon, Janty Yates and Dave Crossman for Napoleon and Ellen Mirojnick for Oppenheimer. RELATED: All The Best Picture Oscar Winners – Photo Gallery Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name, Poor Things stars Stone as
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