Travels with My Aunt Wins Costume Design: 1973 Oscars

Marisa Berenson and co-host Michael Caine present Anthony Powell with the Oscar for Costume Design for Travels with My Aunt at the 45th Academy Awards. Accepted by George Cukor and co-hosted by Carol Burnett.

[@perpieta]

Michael Caine--so handsome, charming and funny!

[@bwayland1290]

I loved the costumes in "Travels with My Aunt." I felt it deserved to win.

[@jwelch5742]

Travels with My Aunt has great costume design.

[@Autostade67]

There's another reason why Charlotte Fleming may not have been nominated (or been eligible for nomination)...some of the costumes in 'Cabaret' were not actually her designs: Grey's costume in "Money" was an authentic German vaudevillian's suit (Grey has tales of how foul was its reek with decades of stage generated sweat), Minelli's purple soutien-gorge gown with the midriff cutouts (for 'Cabaret')was an early 70s maxi-dress Fosse's wife Gwen Verdon found in a German thrift store almost at the last minute after several looks had been tried for the number (when you know this fact, you can see the dress is very redolent of it's 70s provenance yet more or less passes for early 30s since it is meant to be a bit 'tenderloin' and louche). Similarly the final costume for 'Maybe This Time' was by Ossie Clark with print by Celia Birtwell (again, knowing this, you can see his signature use of chiffon and shaping of the bodice). Clark also designed another dress for Minelli (something red), but I can't recall if it appears in the final cut of the film or not. All of this aside, such issues show how rigid nomination categories can be, for, was we all know, the overall costume scheme of 'Cabaret' is fantastic.

[@agenttheater5]

Fantastic stories - especially the suit story

[@JerseySurvivor]

Love this. The music piece playing under the models is "To Love" from the score of The Poseidon Adventure.

[@dflartist]

love, love, love this channel. can't get enough!!!! agree w/dennis walker..where was cabaret for this award?

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Charlotte Fleming's CABARET costumes were an odd omission...

[@johnyzero2000]

You said it pal it blows the mind how she was overlooked. I'm happy you know who she is!

[@michaelrimmer4200]

The music come from the movie the posiedon Adventure

[@dadodydo]

Travel with my aunt deserved much more than this.

[@bwayland1290]

I loved the costumes in "Travels with My Aunt."

[@janetwebster5099]

Wish i could just crawl right into my laptop and arrive back in time - 1973 - truly the best year of the 20th century.........the irony of course is that in 1973 I would not be typing on KZbin @ 12:18am whilst taking a few min off of watching "The Deuce" on Crave........I guess there are some good things about now but I so wish I could recall the early 70s better - in 1973 I was 9......

[@Elitist20]

It was all downhill from there - 1973-74 was when the long postwar economic boom finally ran out of steam.

[@hudinisurface9612]

Just delightful. I'm sorry I missed it in the first place.

[@KaninFamily]

I'd really like to see Norma Koch winning the best black & white costume design in 1963 for "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" presented (on film) by Audrey Hepburn and in person by Eva Marie Saint.

[@ScottishBlancmange]

Since you're doing 1972, how about uploading "Limelight" winning Best Dramatic Score? Thanks.

[@Gonkawonga]

reading the GG book

[@johnyzero2000]

Thanks again for posting my favorite category! In my opinon Cabaret was the best costumes of 1972 sadly Charlotte Flemming wasn't nominated instead the nomination went to The Poseidon Adventure. How and why I don't know?

[@johnyzero2000]

@Mrs. Phyllis Stephens So they weren't impressed with Cabaret and felt the polyester numbers from The Poseidon Adventure were better?

[@Micky2k66]

Could you upload 'Death On The Nile' winning this award? Thanking you :)

[@Dennisanyone-]

How the f--- did poseidon adventure get nominated for this and cabaret didnt?

[@UFOSPACE1999]

The Music is by John Williams...from The Poseidon Adventures.

[@j0287garcia]

You are absolutely right! It's the theme where Susan and her boyfriend are dancing before the big one.

[@peterohsiek6907]

@@j0287garciaI’m embarrassed to know its called “To Love”. 😉

[@Harringtonml54]

CABARET was amazingly absent from the nominees. Word was that Fosse had insisted on using too many authentic clothes from the period instead of new designs and this perturbed the costume design guild and the Academy branch, resulting in one of Paul Zastupnevich's inexplicable nominations (look up the others; it boggles the mind).

[@scottherf]

cabaret and star wars both won 11 (Mad Mad Fury Road also robbed) oscars but no best picture or director.

[@Harringtonml54]

Scott Herford CABARET won 8 Oscars, including best director for Bob Fosse. The first STAR WARS film won 7 Oscars.

[@johnwier5428]

Oddly enough all of Paul Z's three nominations, starting with this one, Anthony Powell was one of the other nominees all three times, and Powell always won.

[@nymet2454]

Was that really Raquel Welch?

[@Autostade67]

The Academy is weird in its rules...we can only assume that Charlotte Fleming ('Cabaret") was not a member of the Academy (or was not a member of the American Costumers Assoc. or whatever it's called) and therefore, by dint of petty politics and not artistry, was ineligible to be nominated. Don't forget this was the same year that Nino Rota got booted from the 'Best Score' category at the last minute because it was found out that he had used a small segment of music from an earlier film in "The Godfather". Conversely/perversely, Charlie Chaplain ended up winning 'Best Score' of 1972 for 'Limelight' - a film made in 1952! Why? Because the bizarro Academy rules say a film has to play for at least three days in a calendar year in Los Angeles to be nominated. "Limelight' never played in Los Angeles in 1952 because Chaplain had been blacklisted and fled the country. Twenty years later after all of the self-righteous apologies died down, the film did play LA and therefore was eligible for a nomination. And one more note about petty politics: though I have nothing against Paul Zastupnevich per se, it's pretty much an open secret that his three nominations ("Poseidon Adventure", "The Swarm", and "When Time Ran Out" - all for Irwin Allen) were pretty much inside jobs.

[@TheTerryE]

You don't love the costumes in Poseidon??

[@michaeljj43]

the poseideon adventure???????? u gotta be kidding.

[@Harringtonml54]

Let's see *your* mug..

[@Harringtonml54]

Please see my reply to dflartist. Thanks.