Albert Wolsky
Albert Wolsky was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France on November 24th, 1930 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 93, Albert Wolsky biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Wolsky became a well regarded costume designer, working both on Broadway and in the motion picture industry.
The first film Wolsky worked on was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. He worked on many films including Harry and Tonto, The Turning Point, Grease and Manhattan. He worked with Bob Fosse, a leading Broadway director, on All That Jazz and won his first Academy Award. He won his second Academy Award for Bugsy in 1991 and has been nominated five other times, most recently for his work on Julie Taymor's Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe (2007) and Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road (2008).
He began his career as costume designer for the theatre by assisting costume designer Ann Roth on A Case of Libel (1963); he later assisted Roth on The Odd Couple (1965), Patricia Zipprodt on Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and Theoni Aldredge on Illya Darling (1967). His first work as lead costumer was Generation (1965). He went on to serve as principal costume designer for both plays and musicals, including The Sunshine Boys (1972) and Sly Fox (1976). Wolsky has been announced as the designer for the 2012 Broadway production of The Heiress.
In 2010, Wolsky donated his costume design sketches to the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Academy Awards
- Winner: All That Jazz, 1980; Bugsy, 1992
- Nominee: Sophie's Choice, 1983; The Journey of Natty Gann, 1986; Toys, 1993; Across the Universe, 2008; Revolutionary Road, 2009
- Hollywood Film Award, Costume Designer of the Year, 2004
- Costume Designers Guild, Career Achievement Award, 1999
- TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010
- Antoinette Perry Award
- 2013 Best Costume Design of a Play for The Heiress (nominee)
- Drama Desk Award
- 1976 Outstanding Costume Design for They Knew What They Wanted (nominee)
- 1976 Outstanding Costume Design for A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (nominee)
- 1977 Outstanding Costume Design for Sly Fox (nominee)