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Walk The Line, Geisha Win Guild
Awards
By Rich Drees
February 27, 2006- The lush costumes and photography of
Memoirs Of A Geisha and the jangle of guitars in the Johnny Cash
bio-pic Walk The Line helped snare their respective films
various Hollywood guild awards this weekend in the last of the major
award presentations before the Academy Awards.
Taking home the Cinema Audio Society’s top award were Walk The
Line’s rerecording mixers Paul Massey and Doug Hemphill and
production Peter F. Kurland, beating out sound technicians from the
films War Of The Worlds, King Kong, Memoirs Of A
Geisha and Crash. The CAS also awarded their first
Filmmaker Award to Quentin Tarantino, who attended the Saturday
evening ceremony with his Kill Bill Vol.1 & Vol. 2
rerecording mixer Michael Minkler.
Colleen Atwood earned the Costume Design Guild’s award for
excellence in period film on Saturday for designing the hand-painted
kimonos and 1930s and `40s style Western clothing for director Rob
Marshall’s Memoirs Of A Geisha. Atwood also won a Costume
Design Guild Award last year for her work on the fantasy Lemony
Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events. The win places Atwood
as the lead contender for the Academy Award’s Best Costume Design
award. Atwood has previously won an Oscar for her work on the
Marshall-directed Chicago (2002).
Other film winners at Costume Design Guild Awards were The
Chronicles Of Narnia’s Isis Mussenden for excellence in a
fantasy film and Transamerica’s Danny Glicker for excellence
in contemporary film.
The next evening, Memoirs Of A Geisha took the top honor at
the 20th annual American Society of Cinematography’s
awards. It was cinematographer Dion Beebe’s second ASC award, having
previously won for his work on Chicago. |
