Edith Head

Edith Claire Posener
The Doctor
October 28, 1897
San Bernardino, California
October 24, 1981
Los Angeles, California
bone marrow disease
83 years and 361 days
5’ 1½” (1.56 m)
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Costume Design (Color). The Emperor Waltz, Paramount. Edith Head and Gile Steele.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). The Heiress, Paramount. Edith Head and Gile Steele.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Edith Head and Charles LeMaire.
Winner markerCostume Design (Color). Samson and Delilah, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). A Place in the Sun, Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). Carrie, Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). The Greatest Show on Earth, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins and Miles White.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). Roman Holiday, Paramount. Edith Head.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). Sabrina, Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). The Rose Tattoo, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). To Catch a Thief, Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). The Proud and Profane, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). The Ten Commandments, Motion Picture Associates, Inc.; Paramount. Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg.
Costume Design. Funny Face, Paramount. Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy.
Costume Design. The Buccaneer, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). Career, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). The Five Pennies, Dena Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.
Winner markerCostume Design (Black-and-White). The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank Production; United Artists. Edith Head and Edward Stevenson.
Costume Design (Color). Pepe, G.S.-Posa Films International Production; Columbia. (Mexico, USA) Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). Pocketful of Miracles, Franton Production; United Artists. Edith Head and Walter Plunkett.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford Production; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). My Geisha, Sachiko Production; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). Wives and Lovers, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). A New Kind of Love, Llenroc Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). A House Is Not a Home, Clarence Greene-Russell Rouse Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). What a Way to Go!, Apjac-Orchard Production; 20th Century-Fox. Edith Head and Moss Mabry.
Costume Design (Black-and-White). The Slender Thread, Paramount. Edith Head.
Costume Design (Color). Inside Daisy Clover, Park Place Production; Warner Bros. Edith Head and Bill Thomas.
Costume Design (Color). The Oscar, Clarence Greene-Russell Rouse Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. Edith Head.
Costume Design. Sweet Charity, Universal. Edith Head.
Costume Design. Airport, Ross Hunter-Universal Production; Universal. Edith Head.
Winner markerCostume Design. The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. Edith Head.
Costume Design. The Man Who Would Be King, Allied Artists-Columbia Pictures Production; Allied Artists. (UK, USA) Edith Head.
Costume Design. Airport ’77, Jennings Lang Production; Universal. Edith Head and Burton Miller.

35 Nominations