Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson discuss the real-life inspirations and sheer scale of Martin Scorsese’s crime epic.
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Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, the drama premiered at the New York Film Festival and before being made available to watch on Netflix. It has already won best film at the AFI Awards, National Board of Review Awards and New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globes.
Both Powell and Peterson previously worked with Scorsese on The Wolf Of Wall Street and The Departed.
Powell has also secured Oscar nominations for her work on Gangs Of New York and Hugo; won the Academy Award for her costume design on Shakespeare In Love and Scorsese’s The Aviator; and picked up an Oscar for her work on The Young Victoria, on which Scorsese was a producer. She has also won three Baftas for Velvet Goldmine, The Young Victoria and more recently The Favourite.
