Barry Lyndon Wins Costume Design: 1976 Oscars

Ulla-Britt Soderlund and Milena Canonero win the Oscar for Costume Design for Barry Lyndon at the 48th Academy Awards. Presented by Jennifer O'Neill and Telly Savalas.

[@AlejandroAlexHernandez]

I like how the winner dressed up in one of her costume designs for 'Barry Lyndon'.

[@pandapal13]

WHY IS THIS NO LONGER A THING?!?!?!?!?

[@DenshoGiallo]

People only want capeshit and progressive movies.

[@SandyOliveros]

Milena Canonero won again last night, 39 years later. Her 4th Oscar. Bravo!

[@thedude4795]

holy shit?

[@markelijio6012]

"Holy Cow!"

[@99Filmo]

WHAT THE HELL WHERE THEY THINKING OF WHEN THEY DESIGNED THE BARRY LYNDON DANCE ROUTINE?

[@hawkeye7246]

Starts off dignified, then everyone realizes that it's 1976...

[@klausweasley]

Imagine doing this the year "Schindler's List" got nominated for Costume Design.

[@veronical.lianmaseras4543]

Hahahah! imagine?

[@reving19]

Still funny 7 years later.

[@markelijio6012]

Nineteen years later in 1994.

[@markelijio6012]

Don't worry, "Imagine" isn't the right word - but for the 1994 Oscars it will take nineteen years later for "Schindler's List" to get nominated this year for costume design.

[@markelijio6012]

Nineteen years later in 1994 - better eat your Wheaties!

[@yutopi]

Forgive the choreography, this is the 70s, folks. Navid

[@ronaldh8446]

Has to be the goofiest Costume Design Award presentation in Academy history. Good Lord!

[@johnyzero2000]

AWESOME THANKS SO MUCH!!! LOAD MORE COSTUME DESIGN WINNERS PLEASE!

[@dwitigaggar4918]

This was fun !

[@LadyAmerican]

Unique that they did their dance sequences for best costume design at the Oscars back in the 70s!!!! This was cool back then. Now, if they did it in 2012, I think someone responsible would have gotten slapped!! :)

[@tomshea8382]

I think the last time they did it was in 1990, when Driving Miss Daisy won.

[@EstadodeLimbo]

no puedo dejar de mirar O_O

[@kurtschindler4089]

I love these. They're garish and beautiful. I'm dying to see the year when Romeo and Juliet won.

[@99Filmo]

If a really dark film had to do this, like Bergman, it would be really awkward

[@lynnturman8157]

groovy, baby

[@MovieJon]

The man taking Sean Connery's place in "The Man Who Would be King" was a regular dancer on "The Carol Burnett Show" and pops up EVERYWHERE on TV during the 1970s. Interesting that the one dress from "The Four Musketeers" was not actually designed by Yvonne Blake..... Raquel Welch insisting on having all of her clothes done separately by her own male designer, her bust heavily accentuated unlike every other female in the movie who were dressed in period appropriate gowns.

[@everythingclassic1705]

You got it wrong. The script called for her cleavage to be displayed on several occasions in the two films, and it played a pivotal part in two very funny gags. And as Faye Dunaway wrote in the book, the corsets they wore were so authentic that if Charlton Heston was made to wear them, he would also have cleavage. Raquel hired Ron Talsky because he was her boyfriend then and he is listed as a nominee along with Yvonne Blake. That's why the yellow dress she wore is featured in this presentation.

[@iwaisman]

Telly, Telly, Telly!

[@armaan3410]

Who are the two presenters

[@fijistarproductions990]

that was cute

[@AntoniosPapantoniou]

Unfortunately Ulla-Britt died 9 years later only 41, reasons unknown. She could have a bright career like Milena Canonero.

[@thedude4795]

I read an Swedish article about her death, had to subscibe because it was behind a paywall. I'll translate and post you a snip that quotes her son, Lars-Martin: "The 1980s meant lots of jobs for Ulla-Britt Söderlund. It also meant that her alcohol abuse increased, says Lars-Martin. - She drank a lot. At least that's how I perceived it at the time, he says. She found it difficult to combine her habits with her demanding work. In the end, she had to begin to turn down gigs. Among other things, she had been interested in Roman Polanskis film Pirates, but everything had ultimately fallen on Ulla-Britt's drinking. In the spring of 1985, she fell ill and was hospitalized. It was found that she had cancer. Lars-Martin was never told that the tumor had spread and that the situation was serious. He set out to backpack by train the same summer, was gone for a month and returned home to Copenhagen late in July. At the last minute it would turn out, because that same night his mother died in the hospital, just a few weeks before she would have turned 42." In the article its mentioned that she placed high standards on her textile work, and that she was a workaholic. The part about alcohol starts off as a comment that showbiz is a business where alcohol is often consumed. They also write about how her services became very in demand after winning the award. Apperantly Lars Martin and his father spent one year in Ireland and England for Barry Lyndon. She embroidered every single button by hand for some 38 costumes in the movie. So dedication was her middle name. I was happy to have found an answer to the question many have been wondering. I also added the cause of death to wikipedia, English and Swedish. The article was from 2016, I would credit the journalist, but I happen to disdain Swedish journalists, haha, so, whatever, but atleast we finally learned the truth.

[@BorjasVault]

Please Thelma Schoonmaker - Best Editing for Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed :D!!!

[@klausweasley]

I think that was "Saving Private Ryan".

[@OloEopia52]

Nobody's talking about 3:10

[@ivandalito]

Hahaha I chuckled like Matt Dillon in there’s something about Mary

[@marco70go]

Actually, THAT year, Miss Debbie Allen had the bad idea of having Schindler's List's score being presented with tap dancers.. What an embarassing moment...

[@EstadodeLimbo]

haha she did that for fun no only for awards

[@user-oe5kw7do6k]

Why did they purposely put a mole on their face?

[@thedude4795]

They? She did herself. It was in keeping with the 1700s era.

[@johnyzero2000]

LOL talk about tacky!

[@pete49327]

The dance skits intro for each nominee is cringe worthy of the highest order.

[@3l237]

the 70s... they had a really weird sense of humor

[@YoungFrankenstein]

lmao the cheesy choreography...

[@fadhilramadhani1847]

I am weirdly fascinated by these stupid ass costume design presentation!

[@msdenardin]

What an awful category presentation.