They should've gotten a TIE Fighter Pilot up there too, because that costume is badass. I have a cosplay of that character and wore it proudly to several conventions.

the ol' "ol' timey vs new future" effect

Haha IKR! XD

Every time Darth Vader appears: RUN!!!

A beautiful metaphor for the impact Star Wars immediately had on the world. Everything had changed.

What baffles me is how this is the only time _Star Wars_ has appeared in this category. I'd argue that the costumes have only improved and updated themselves with each new film.

This is something that I 100% have to agree with. Like... there isn't much of a creative process when you have to re-create something that already exists. However, I can guarantee you at least 99% of all the costumes have to be made from scratch and that is a hell of a lot of work. Oh... these were truly more civilized days for the Oscars

True .

People can recognize Darth Vader and probably never seen Star Wars before that’s how iconic it is.

@Paul WT Phantom Menace was nominated for Best Sound; Best Sound Effects Editing; and Best Visual Effects. It did not win any of those. It did win the Saturn Awards for Best Costumes and Best Special Effects. In the 2000 Oscars it was competing in, The Matrix won Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing; Topsy-Turvy won Best Costume Design; and Sleepy Hollow won Best Art Direction.

It's awkward alright, they just can't compete with the classiness that is Star Wars!

@@Obi-Wan_KenobiHello there

+William Wright Even the reaction of the croud is different

+José Marco Segura Jaubert how

Will Wright III Right, Wright! They had little respect for Star Wars at the time.... begrudgingly gave the award to a "silly film". It's a long tradition for critics to hate on Star Wars. I did not know any of the other nominees.

Very true.

Clearly ahead of its time, you don't realize it as much until you watch this

Especially today, imagine an MCU film winning over some award season period peice.

They secretly expected to lose to Star Wars.

@@themadtitan7603 Well, I've come from the future. Black Panther did just that two years ago.

​@@shaneaycock9306 and the sequel did the same

​@@niccage6375 Is _Black Panther: Wakanda Forever_ the first time a sequel has won Best Costume Design after the first film also won? (For the sake of this question, let's separate the first film from the MCU.)

you made my day :D

Julius Ulit he found their lack of faith disturbing.

:)

He found the their lack of fashion disturbing

he had a nice looking blonde haired woman with him as the princess.

lol

lol

I bet thos designers were probably peeved

They aren't really "boring" I quite like them lol

Exactly

Lol

I feel like the orchestra knew who was going to win, since in addition to playing the Cantina theme for the Star Wars costumes, they followed up with a later portion pf the main theme as all the costumed models exited the stage (and then broke into the early part of the main theme after the winner was announced).

MravacKid exactly... have you seen the spoof bar scene with the storm troopers? "why do they make us wear these helmets? I'm the best shot in the unit until I put this on, then can't hit a thing..."

"I can't see a thing in this helmet."

MravacKid I watched it twice. Hilarious

extra hard with all the scene light directed towards your helmeted face as well! PS: The thigh parts of one of those Stormtroopers have been put on backwards :)

@@fishyc150 also some stromtrooper bump thir head because of the helmet and the helmet caused what we called today STROMTROOPER HAS BAD AIM

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Oh no, poor guy xD

😄😄 that's true. 🤙🏼 5-4

LOL

6menonaplane *I can’t see a thing in this helmet*

+Mumblix Grumph .."in the far, far, away back....."

+Mumblix Grumph A long time ago in a bench far far away...

This made me "snicker".

This made me *BUST OUT* !

Sad reality with the Oscars show. Technical people are sat way back. They want the recognizable stars up front, even if they weren't nominated that year. Notice how Jack Nicholson is always front row?

Time I think

Because the womens thank you speeches takes like 30 minutes each

LordDavid04 I think this is awesome. 😀

They've done this in recent years.

They prefer to project parts of the movies now.

+AmusedChild But maybe without the stairs. I can't believe none of those women in dresses, or bucketheads fell down the stairs.

Agreed. These people also had some CLASS about them, using the ceremony to celebrate their craft of filmmaking, NOT as a political forum!

Oh, I'm sure that all took some practice; maybe lots of it. I wouldn't doubt if at least some of the women may have had some experience in modeling, I duuno. In any case, it was classy, creative, and in good taste!

WTF does Marlon Brando, his annoying narcissism, or 1973 have to do with Star Wars, 1978, and good entertainment? "It's always been like" what? No, the Academy Awards have not always been like a speed reading session because some of the awards given today did not exist previously. Now, begone.

Oh, it is? I wouldn't know. What do you define as a literary "rage"? As a published writer and scholar, I'm just waiting with baited breath for your perspicacity and acumen. You know what is not cute? You. Begone. Adults are talking.

monsterlair It's the only science fiction costumes in the bunch. Plus, the others are dressed realistically or historically.

Nonamearisto Yes, that was kind of my point.

+Obscene Vegetable Matter The organizers also sat him waaaaaay in the back of the auditorium, probably because they hadn't counted upon him getting the gold statue, either.

That's nothing...did you see Isaac Hayes' performance of "Shaft"...now THAT was an Oscas fashion statement....

Thank you. I worked very hard to be a memorable and emotional character.

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi aren't you Ewan McGregor?

GE VY general kenobi

Even though he hated the role, didn't he?

@@God-nr5oe I know he bashed the dialogue, but a lot of people did.

Execute Order 66

Execute Order 66

I’m laughing

Second highest grossing franchise on the planet anyone?

They voted for Star Wars, but were laughing at how it contrasted with all the other costumes.

2019 Star Wars costume is shit 👈🧐

cuz there is no *DARTH VADER*

Star Wars is now a literal empire (but we don't talk about the sequels because they are not canon)

@@LazyOldFusspot_3428 Rey Skywalker

@@DylanMush Ye that "Rey Skywalker" caused a huge disturbance in the Force

I’m a big blockbuster nerd

People still know "Julia".

No one has forgotten Annie Hall.

Well...not *pure* imagination. Darth Vader and the imperial military gear were definitely inspired by the war gear shown in the Japanese samurai epics that George Lucas loved.

Yeah, you know it now, but it still looks original until you compare them side by side.

This first Star Wars movie also didn't have a generous budget, and had to put most of it into inventing the new cameras and filming techniques they used. Well-done period-piece costumes do have to be researched, especially if the costumer uses authentic patterns and fabrics, but still, having to imagine how everyone should look in a galaxy far, far away was the biggest challenge.

@@user-zd2kl9yg4v looks original and is original are 2 different things

@@diadokhoi5722 Then you should be able to point out difference between these two absolutely different thing, no?

And she was murdered

I wish I could travel back in time and prevent her from being drowned. 😢

What a creepy joke by Bob Hope: I did makeup for you and the strippers in Gypsy. Nervous laugh follows. Too bad she didn't win any Oscars (three nominations). But _Gypsy_ did get a nomination for costume design. He could have joked about seeing those costumes on stage for the 1962-3 Academy Awards show.

*Mollo

Deserved...all those others sucked!

It was just "Star Wars" then, before Lucas started messing with shit.

That music was composed 2 years later

That’s egzactly how it was.

TotoroRosso: George WAS there, you can see him when Ben Burtt thanks him near the end of this clip: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7NxdN2EmcjWdJc.html. It was during the film's opening weekend, more than half a year before the Oscars, that Lucas was in Hawaii hiding from what he thought would be bad attendance numbers and critical disdain.

With Steven Spielberg

But hey, if Lucas was at the premiere, we wouldn’t have gotten a great action adventure film and another throwback to Saturday morning matinees with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

@@hunterolaughlin He should have found a third serial to do like _Shazam!_ instead of _Howard the Duck._

@@sandal_thong8631 True. It’s sad that his later films couldn’t have been as successful as Star Wars or Indiana Jones. I’m sure he had lots of new ideas for new film franchises, but sadly never came to fruition.

Me too haha

Same

Welcome to 2020

2022

I think it was a pretty good film but in my opinion Star Wars should have won.

Liquidzer0 I agree! I remember watching this live. It was the first time I had ever watched the Academy Awards. Cheered every time STAR WARS won an award! Losing Best Picture was a huge disappointment. Definitely was the best film, considering a variety of aspects.

***** "Greatest romantic comedy of all time" is like talking about the biggest mouse who ever lived. Still a small fry.

Nobody talks about Annie Hall any more except for the film that won over Star Wars. Star Wars, on the other hand is as iconic Mickey Mouse....in lives on to this day. CLEARLY, Star Wars WAS the MUCH better picture. :)

+Sammy Jenkis I agree. Though we mustn't deny that, even if you *like* Annie Hall more (and those people *do* exist), Star Wars is by-far the most well-made film of 1977. But Annie Hall is pretty great nonetheless. (Only when it's standing next to Star Wars does it kinda pale in comparison, both in scope as well as in historical significance.) For those knowledgeable about the Oscars, the actual perceived frontrunner that year was actually the deservedly forgotten The Turning Point (which hilariously ended up leaving the ceremony like Chewbacca at the end of Star Wars-empty-handed, despite 11 nominations). Annie Hall was a *MAJOR* upset that year, and since Star Wars (let's face it) was never going to win the top awards anyway, we should be thankful one of Woody Allen's best films did instead. (And mind you, I'd vote Star Wars for Picture and Director *EASILY*, but Annie Hall would be my 2nd choice...well, for Picture, I'd vote The Goodbye Girl as my 2nd choice, and for Director...Spielberg was nominated for Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, so that would've been my 2nd choice...but Annie Hall would be firmly on the bronze podium.) In the end, let's just be thankful (I write this comment on Thanksgiving day.) it won 6 competitively (Score, Sound, Art Direction, Costume Design, Film Editing-haha, Lucas' ex-wife Marcia has an Oscar and he doesn't XD-and of course Visual FX) and 1 specially for Ben Burtt.

You should see Rachel Zegler’s Maria. She’s a young triple threat

Which ones?

@@musicaltheatergeek79 Good ?.

Liked her in _Brainstorm_ which had to be saved in the edit.

That didn't exist until 1980.

Unfortunately the Imperial March didn't exist back then.

The Imperial March didn't exist till Empire Strikes Back. FUN FACTTT

Blasters and lightsabers, even though they're AWESOME!!!, are Props and not part of the Costumes department.

4IN14094 At the time, a disco version of the main theme with the "Cantina band" motif was a Top 40 hit, so it was very recognizable.

4IN14094 The Imperial March first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, so it didn't exist at this time.

They did it in the late 90s early 2000s. Miss those.

Es verdad básicamente es leer algo de historia y reproducir los modelos de esas épocas, en cambio Star Wars era completamente original

Me too, now all the people are rude

There are always at least five nominees for costume design. You're right, though, the others didn't even have the tiniest chance to beat SW.

darthstarkiller1912 wouldn't it be more embarassing to get called up despite having no chance at all rather than just say "hey it's star wars no competition" I mean all the other costumes are nothing new.

That was hazardous, it's a wonder one of them didn't tumble down the steps!

Rogue Vader really?😞

I'd put forward Tom Hanks and George Clooney, and Sandra Bullock.

Susan George would have made a great Princess Leia in "Star Wars" too bad she didn't play the role

I loved Natalie Wood...so sad!