Anthea Sylbert
Birth Name:
Anthea Sylbert
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Profession
Costume designer, Producer, Costume department, Writer
Fast Facts
- In 2005 the Costume Designers Guild Awards awarded her with a Career Achievement Award for her costume designing in film
- Received a Tony Award nomination in 1984 for Best Costume Designer, for "The Real Thing․"
- She created period costumes for her film "Chinatown," which resulted in an Oscar Award nomination for Best Costume Design
- She attended the Barnard College in New York, and later studied at Parsons School of Design
- Began as a costume designer on New York films such as "The Tiger Makes Out," and worked with the production designer Richard Sylbert, her then-brother-in-law
- After leaving active designing in 1978, she became a production executive and the vice president of special projects at Warner Bros
- She went to work as an independent producer with Goldie Hawn and produced "Protocol" and after a few years, she produced the award-winning TV movie "Truman․"
Awards
- 1975Oscar - Best Costume Design:Nominated
- 1975BAFTA Film Award - Best Costume Design:Nominated
- 1978Oscar - Best Costume Design:Nominated
- 1979BAFTA Film Award - Best Costume Design:Nominated
- 1996PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:Winner
- 1996Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Made for Television Movie:Winner
- 2001WGA Award (TV) - Original Long Form:Nominated