Ann Roth to Receive Career Achievement Award at Costume Designers Guild Awards, March 16.

Entertainment Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2002

Academy Award-winning Motion Picture Costume Designer Ann Roth, whose distinguished career spans five decades of costume design on some of the industry's most memorable and high-profile films, has been voted the Costume Designers Guild's (CDG) prestigious Career Achievement for Film Award by the Guild, it was announced today by CDG President Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

Previous recipients of this honor are Costume Designers Theadora Van Runkle, Milena Canonero, Theoni V. Aldredge, Anthony Powell and Albert Wolsky.

The award will be presented to Roth at the Guild's Fifth Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony March 16, 2003, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. At the same ceremony, which officially marks the 50th anniversary of the Guild, Excellence in Costume Design awards for 2002 will be presented in two categories of television and film along with a new Excellence in Commercial Costume Design, as well as honorary awards, still to be selected, for Career Achievement for Television, Hall of Fame honorees and a Distinguished Director Award. Honorary Chairpersons of this year's awards are Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie, who was recently inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

Roth's most recent work this year is represented by the soon-to-be-released "The Hours," starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman; "Adaptation" (costume designer for Meryl Streep), "Changing Lanes"; and designing costumes for the 74th Annual Academy Awards television special. Next year her designs will be seen in Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain," starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. She is also working on Barry Sonnenfeld's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and Frank Oz's "The Stepford Wives." Roth won her Academy Award in 1996 for "The English Patient." She was also nominated for Academy Awards in '99 for "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and in '84 for "Places in the Heart."

She began her theatrical career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera Company. Her vast Broadway theatre credits include costume designing for "Purlie," "The Women," "Play It Again, Sam," "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife." She received Tony nominations for "The Crucifer of Blood," "The Royal Family" and "Present Laughter." Two years ago Roth received the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award.

Roth's earliest Costume Design credits in the 1960s included "The World of Henry Orient" and "Midnight Cowboy." In the 1970s she designed costumes for 22 major films, including "The Day of the Locust" (winner of a BAFTA Award) "Marathon Man," "The Goodbye Girl," and "Hair." In the `80s her credits included "The Unbearable Likeness of Being," "The World According to Garp," "Places in the Heart," "Sweet Dreams," and "Silkwood." The `90s found Roth designing costumes for "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "The English Patient," "The Mambo Kings" and "The Birdcage."

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