Anthea Sylbert, the two-time Oscar-nominated costume designer who worked on , , , and before becoming a studio executive and producer, has died. She was 84. Sylbert died on Tuesday in Skiathos, Greece, director Sakus Lalus told .
Sylbert partnered with two-time Oscar-winning production Richard Sylbert on eight films and with his twin brother, — her first husband and another Oscar-winning production designer — on another three. “Paul is the more bitter, more angry of the two,” she Peter Biskind in 1993. “Someone once put it this way: Dick is more of a diplomat.
He will put the ice pick somewhere in your back, you’re not quite sure, and you sort of feel tickled; Paul, while facing you, sticks it in your gut. I always used to think that if you put them together, they’d make the perfect person.” In addition to (1971), Sylbert did the costumes for director on (1973) and (1975) and for his Broadway plays , the acclaimed comedy that bowed in 1971, and the -written , for which she received a Tony nomination in 1984.
It was Nichols who introduced her when she received a career achievement award from the Costume Designers Guild in 2005. Sylbert was the rare woman in the New Hollywood era to segue from the creative side of filmmaking to the business side, first as an executive at Warner Bros. and United Artists and then as ’s founding partner in a production company.
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