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ALBERT WOLSKY (Costume Designer) most recently completed work on Robert Towne's Ask the Dust starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.  He also worked on the recent remake of The Manchurian Candidate for director Jonathan Demme. A two-time Academy Award® winner for his designs on Bob Fosse's All that Jazz and Barry Levinson's Bugsy, Wolsky has also been nominated for Oscars on Levinson's Toys, the family adventure The Journey of Natty Gann and Alan Pakula's drama Sophie's Choice. Wolsky was born in Paris, France, in 1930. He graduated from City College of New York and began to work in the travel industry before leaving to pursue his life's work in costume design at age 30. He worked as an assistant to costume design legend Helene Pons on the original Broadway production of Camelot. Wolsky earned his first film credit as costume designer on The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.  In 1999, he was honored with the Costume Designers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Among the more recent films for which he has designed costumes are Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition for which the Costume Designers Guild honored him with an Excellence for Costume Design nomination, the Jennifer Lopez comedy Maid in Manhattan and the sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest, which earned him a Saturn Award nomination. Other movies on which Wolsky has been costume designer include Runaway Bride, You've Got Mail, The Jackal, Red Corner, Striptease, Up Close & Personal, The Pelican Brief, Fatal Instinct, Enemies: A Love Story, Cookie, Crimes of the Heart, Legal Eagles, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Falcon and the Snowman, Moscow on the Hudson, To Be or Not to Be, Star 80, Tempest, The Jazz Singer, Manhattan, Grease, An Unmarried Woman, The Turning Point, Lenny, The Gambler, Harry and Tonto, Up the Sandbox, The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine, Little Murders, Lovers and Other Strangers, Where's Poppa? and Popi. For television, Wolsky created costumes for the 1976 NBC special Beauty and the Beast, starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere, which earned him an Emmy Award.

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