Colleen Atwood (born 1948, Quincy, Washington) Upper Education: Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle Washington and then New York University School of Film N.Y, N.Y., is an Academy Award-winning costume designer. Colleen has been nominated for an Academy Award numerous times and won Academy Awards for the movies "Chicago" in 2002 and "Memoirs of a Geisha" in 2006. Colleen has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton and Jonathan Demme. Beginning her career as a fashion advisor in Washington State in the early 1970's, Colleen eventually ventured into the world of costume design for play's and film initially coming to fame through her work on Sting's Bring on the Night World Tour. Quincy is a city located in Grant County, Washington. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, poet and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... Sting in Budapest, 2000 Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), usually known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. ...

Colleen has been partially involved in developing or has been the lead designer for producing the costumes on over 50 films to date. Colleen is also the lead costume designer for all of the new costumes created for Ringling Bros, Barnum Balley Circus in 2005-2006. As a designer of costumes that take people off into the imaginary world of film by portraying the visual ideas of the costumes for the time period a particular film represents. Colleen's genius in expressing herself through her art form continiously reveals the multi-talented abilities of one the great costume designers of this era in film.

Selected filmography

• Married to the Mob (1988)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Little Women (1994) -- Academy Award nomination
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Beloved (1998) -- Academy Award nomination
• Sleepy Hollow (1999) -- Academy Award nomination; BAFTA, best costume design; CDG Award
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Chicago (2002) -- Academy Award
• The Tick (2001-TV series)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) -- Academy Award nomination; BAFTA, best costume design; CDG Award
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) -- Academy Award; CDG Award
• Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Married to the Mob is a 1988 comedy film. ... Edward Scissorhands is a movie written by Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson. ... Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the film version The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopath psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter. ... Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the transvestite cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. ... Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. ... Mars Attacks! started out as a science fiction trading card series created by Topps and painted by Norman Saunders in 1962. ... For the suburb of Liverpool in England, see Gateacre. ... The 1998 drama Beloved stars Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey and is based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1987 novel of the same name by Toni Morrison. ... Sleepy Hollow (1999; see also 1999 in film) is a historical fantasy film interpreting the legend of the Headless Horseman and based loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Film poster for Planet of the Apes (2001) Planet of the Apes is a 2001 science fiction film in which an astronaut finds himself on a planet where humans are enslaved by apes. ... Chicago is a movie musical released in 2002 about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. ... The Tick is a comedic superhero, created by Ben Edlund in 1986. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Big Fish is a 2003 movie directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup and Jessica Lange. ... Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 movie, directed by Brad Silberling. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997. ...

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