British costume designer Sandy Powell has won her third Academy Award for her stunning costume design in period drama The Young Victoria, which partly shot in London. 

The year is getting off to a good start for Oscar-winning Powell, who last month also took home the best costume award at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). Powell’s previous Oscars are for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Aviator (2004).

Powell studied at Central St Martins School of Art and made her feature debut on Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio. Other credits include Orlando, The Crying Game, The Wings of the Dove and The End of the Affair. She is attached to Martin Scorcese’s upcoming The Invention of Hugo Cabret. (Read more on Oscar®-winning Julian Fellowes’ collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Graham King).

Other Academy Award winners include James Cameron’s Avatar, which scooped the awards for Best Visual Effects, Cinematography and Art Direction. Soho-based Framestore helped create the Oscar-winning effects for the groundbreaking 3D blockbuster.

There was no doubt that the main winner of the 82nd Academy Awards was The Hurt Locker. The Iraq war drama won six awards including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director which went to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to ever win the best directing Oscar.

The Best Actress award went to Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side and Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor for his role in Crazy Heart. Christoph Waltz was presented with the Best Supporting Actor award for his widely praised performance in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. While Mo'Nique won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in the critically acclaimed inde hit Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, which also won Best Adapted Screenplay.

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