This is partly due to Colleen Atwood's beautifully detailed and constructed costumes, which vary in color depending on geographic locale.

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The best costume design category sees Britain's Colleen Atwood, Jenny Beaven and Sandy Powell all in contention, for Alice in Wonderland, The King's Speech and The Tempest respectively.

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Three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood avoided the classic outfits that made Audrey Hepburn such a style icon when she designed the clothes for an adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that opens this week.

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