A Room with a View Wins Costume Design: 1987 Oscars

[@Mst3kfan1994]

I kind of love the fact that Jenny Beaven can say that she won costuming Oscars for both a Merchant-Ivory E.M. Forster adaptation and Mad Max: Fury Road. And dressed in the most awesomely unconventional ways both times she accepted, as well! Badass.

[@Kenneth_villanueva27]

amd now Cruella

[@bill000]

@@Kenneth_villanueva27although she was dressed terrible for her cruella oscar win

[@mickeytor]

yup ... this is 1987 in all its glory

[@HeyShmoley]

Oh man, this is some tacky, hilarious crap. I love it and hate it so much.

[@yaimen2]

+Hey Shmoley! Right. Actually, it´s freaking me out I can´t put thumbs up and down at the same time.

[@goldenager59]

Why, this is just an example of why we love and hate the Oscars themselves! 😕 🙂

[@PaulAncheta]

The Oscars reflected the tastes of the era, as this is exactly how fashion shows used to be staged during those days, jazzy music included. It's also apropos that the commentator of this segment was Lauren Bacall, who started her career after being discovered as a young fashion model.

[@klausweasley]

I don't think they can do this this year since "12 Years a Slave" is nominated in Best Costume. It would be in pretty bad taste to have dancing slave attires on the stage.

[@marco70go]

I know you cannot compare the two movies, still, the year "Driving Miss Daisy" was nominated, they staged a choreographed number that had the dancers lifting the skirts so much that the audience worldwide got to see "miss Daisy's daisy", so to speak. So long for bad taste..

[@EHH246]

I see Jenny Beavan dressed unconventionally back then as well.

[@GerardoTonella]

I wish they still did stuff like this

[@jeffersonborges9932]

I agree. The Academy could return with performances like this to the Oscar Telecast.

[@dobazajr]

They did last 2016 Oscars.

[@aqualcunopiaceclassico3201]

Yes and not. 7 minutes choreography for costumes is too much.

[@jwelch5742]

A Room with a View has great costume design.

[@wollam11]

There was an epic shortage of taste in 1987.

[@ciupenhauer]

+Rodney Wollam hahahah, epic indeed wtf

[@pam0626]

Yep. And I have the horrid prom dress to prove it.

[@fadhilramadhani1847]

This is too hysterical!

[@srdladybug]

they barely showed the real costumes. They guys in the suits are too much

[@goldenager59]

Agreed! But with time at a premium, too much to hope they could show first a scene and *then* the Aldredge spin-off. Personally, I'm glad they went with the fashion show (I like displays of imaginative derivation). But I suppose it was also too much to hope that we'd get men's adaptations as well. Can't really complain, though - these duds don't strike me as "duds"! 🤓

[@henryw6167]

I've met John Bright, and attended a lecture he did on Costume Design. It was fascinating: he was lovely.

[@billfisher9238]

Peggy Sue's silver prom dress is a classic.

[@francescofonda6461]

Awful and insulting performance. Zero to do with the actual costumes of these films.

[@fockingreat1125]

I hope all these dancers are still out there, living their best lives, because damn, if they did not give this their all.

[@goldenager59]

Well said! One can only wonder, and wish them well. 😌

[@WritersQuestForGlory]

I can't get my jaw out of the floor after seeing those models :o especially those from the Pirates were amazing. Great music and dances as well. Damn i miss those times!

[@goldenager59]

We agree on the best outfits! (But I thought the music comparatively bland and the dancing to be overkill. Still, even poor musicians and choreographers need to earn their supper too.) 😏 🙄

[@jeffersonborges9932]

Yes! The Academy could present the nominees this way in the Oscars 2014. That's what people want to see on TV! :D

[@javiermedina6757]

So ridiculous

[@ATLcentury334]

Who choreographed this mess?

[@hanstun1]

Was that dance number supposed to be funny?

[@wsk5811]

+Hans Tun It's even funnier if you watch it at 2x the speed.

[@tusharkumar8750]

A room with a view got released in 1985 but got Awarded in 1987 🤔

[@Lommy9999]

Odd indeed!

[@michaeljj43]

this is sooooo bad!!!!!!! what's with the motown dancers in grey suits.

[@Lommy9999]

😂😂😂😂 so ridiculous

[@MrChumpion]

cringe

[@lisledre]

WITNESS

[@klausweasley]

Why don't they invite Lauren to present Best Picture?

[@thedubliner02]

This was when the oscars took chances

[@Cunninghamily]

3:27

[@flaccidusminimus2170]

Ummm...what do those grey suits and glamorous broads have to do with "The Mission"? It's a movie set in the 1750s.

[@goldenager59]

Clothes make the film - and the multitudes. Pity the "Pirates" look never got off the ground - but then, neither did the film; it bombed like a struck powder magazine. I recall this particular segment of this particular Oscar ceremony fondly indeed - a clever conceit, snappily executed. I often wondered if I would ever see it again. For this privilege, I am indeed deeply gratified. 😎 😀

[@berley1083]

that’s got to be one of the wackiest oscar presentations 😵‍💫

[@YoungFrankenstein]

I would love the Academy to do this, but instead of cheesy dancing, why not having comedians modelling the clothes?

[@goldenager59]

It's a tempting thought...but that would be tantamount to mockery, and the Oscars is no place for that. (Well - ideally). 🙃

[@Lommy9999]

Those three totally random dancers wth 😂

[@theobvu]

JENNY BEAVAN

[@raycarr1389]

Love Lauren's raspy voice as she announces the nominees for costume design. She also announced the same category for the 1975 Oscars.

[@Dalma5mata]

Well... All this stuff was very confusing and disapointing.

[@PJVids83]

When I first saw this, I was appalled at what I thought was zero representation of the actual costumes. On this second viewing, I notice that they actually show one costume from each film just before the crazy dance numbers. It's still insulting in a way to see so little of what actually got nominated.

[@pdgf]

Yeah thought of that too then she said the concept was for Sandy Powell to reimagine them being used in the present or how it might influence it - 1987 that time

[@leandrocerqueira9910]

the music here should have won an oscar

[@chrise8275]

Soo are we gonna forget that labyrinth was snubbed of an art direction nomination.

[@goldenager59]

I'm afraid I *did* ...but as long as you didn't, I feel better about it! 😉

[@leonkane8570]

This is so empire, love it

[@KK-ug5nq]

MAD MAX FURY ROAD

[@yueshi4133]

Amazing!

[@napoleonalex1]

Classy !!