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Albert Wolsky, a two-time Academy Award winning and Tony nominated costume designer whose galore high-profile credits see his Oscar-taking activity on All That Jazz (1979) and Bugsy (1991), died Saturday, May 23, astatine his location successful Hollywood. He was 95.
His decease was announced by friends and colleagues connected societal media and confirmed by Deadline.
Born successful Paris, France, connected November 24, 1930, Wolsky had moved to nan United States and attended City College of New York when, astatine property 30, he switched careers from nan recreation manufacture to prosecute costume design. An early introduction level position for nan legendary costumer Helene Pons came during nan original Broadway accumulation of Camelot.
During those early years Wolsky was credited arsenic an adjunct to specified costumer designers arsenic Ann Roth (A Case of Libel, 1963), Irene Sharaff (Jennie, 1963) and Patricia Zipprodt (Fiddler connected nan Roof, 1964). He reteamed pinch Roth again for 1965’s The Odd Couple, and nan aforesaid twelvemonth became costumer
Within six years, Wolsky was designing costumes nether his ain sanction for Broadway productions, including Generation (1965) and Pousse-Café (1966). Another important solo in installments came successful 1972 erstwhile Wolsky designed nan costumes for nan original The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon. Subsequent Broadway productions included, among others, The Country Girl, a 2008 accumulation starring Frances McDormand, Morgan Freeman and Peter Gallagher, and, successful 2012, The Heiress, his last Broadway in installments and a accumulation starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens and David Strathairn.
Wolsky’s surface activity began soon aft his Broadway debut, pinch credits including a 1968 TV-movie type of Of Mice and Men, and, that aforesaid year, nan characteristic movie The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Over nan consequent decades, he would creation nan costumes for galore awesome mobility pictures, including, among galore others, Up nan Sandbox, Harry and Tonto, Lenny, The Turning Point, An Unmarried Woman, Grease, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, The Jazz Singer, Sophie’s Choice, Star 80, Moscow connected nan Hudson, The Falcon and nan Snowman, Down and Out successful Beverly Hills, Crimes of nan Heart, Scenes from a Mall, Toys, Fatal Instinct, Striptease, You’ve Got Mail, Runaway Bride, Road To Perdition, Maid successful Manhattan, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Birdman and Ad Astra.
Wolsky won Oscars for his activity connected All That Jazz successful 1979 and Bugsy successful 1991. He served 4 position connected nan Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s committee of governors, and successful 2015 received The Costume Designer’s Guild Award for Excellence successful Contemporary Film.
