And the Oscar Goes to... Winners of the Costume Awards

Good evening everybody and welcome everyone to the first ever Costume Awards. Bob Hope wanted to be here tonight to help me announce the winners this evening but he couldn't find his sarong.

Tonight's Awards honors the costumes and their designers for all of the films released before the Academy Award for Best Costume was instituted. There were many great and beautiful costumes in the films released between 1930 and 1947 and we are here tonight to recognize the tireless work and effort that went into them and that decades later still bring us delight when we see them on the big (tv) screen whether it's the first time or the 20th time.

Now I know some of you have been waiting for this moment for quite some time so I won't waste any time in announcing the winners.

Drumroll please...




For the year 1930... and the winner is...

Adrian with 71% of the votes for his beautiful gowns for Miss Shearer in The Divorcee

          



For the year 1931... and the winner is...

Adrian, for the second year in a row for his gowns in Possessed with 57% of the votes

For the year 1932... and the winner is...

Adrian - Grand Hotel - 55%

For the year 1933... and the winner is...

Adrian - Dinner at Eight - 62%

For the year 1934... and the winner is...

Dolly Tree - The Thin Man - 44% (barely won over Cleopatra)

For the year 1935... and the winner is...

Milo Anderson - Captain Blood - 54%

 

For the year 1936... and the winner is...

Adrian - Camille - 50%

For the year 1937... and the winner is...

Adrian - Maytime - 44%

For the year 1938... and the winner is...

Milo Anderson - The Adventures of Robin Hood - 44%

For the year 1939... and the winner is...

Walter Plunkett - Gone With the Wind - 87% (the other 12% went to The Wizard of Oz)

For the year 1940... and the winner is...

Adrian & Gile Steele (mens) - Pride and Prejudice - 50%

For the year 1941... and the winner is...

Adian - Ziegfeld Girl barely won over Edith Head's The Lady Eve with 57% (Head - 42%)

For the year 1942... and the winner is...

Orry-Kelly - Now, Voyager - 50%

For the year 1943... and the winner is...

Gile Steele (Supervised by Irene) - Du Barry was a Lady - 55%

For the year 1944... and the winner is...

Irene Sharaff - Meet Me in St. Louis - 62%

For the year 1945... and the winner is...

Leah Rhodes - Saratoga Trunk - 42%

For the year 1946... and the winner is...

A tie between Irene's The Postman Always Rings Twice & Jean Lewis' Gilda, both with 30%

For the year 1947... and the winner is...

Milo Anderson (Marjorie Best) - Life With Father - 62%