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Costume Designer Paul Tazewell on Winning a Tony and Oscar Within Months: ‘This Black, Queer Little Boy in Akron, Ohio Had No Idea He Would Have the Year That He Had’
Costume Designer Paul Tazewell on winning an Oscar and Tony in the same year. "This Black, Queer Little Boy in Akron, Ohio had no idea he would have the year that he had."
Tazewell, who worked on the film version of “Wicked, made Oscar history earlier this year as the first Black man to win best costume design. In his Tony speech on Sunday, Tazewell added: “I have dressed so many of you, and I have worked with the rest of you out there in creating amazing worlds and telling wonderful stories, and it’s a huge privilege to be a meaningful part of this Broadway community.” Speaking about his work adapting some of the most iconic costumes from the 1992 film of “Death Becomes Her,” Tazewell told Variety last month, “I knew that it was going to be a huge challenge, because if the rest of the audience loved it in the way that I did, there were going to be a lot of expectations.”
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