Ann Roth's distinguished career as a costume designer spans forty years of work on some of the industry's most memorable and high-profile films. She won an Academy Award in 1997 for The English Patient, and she has been nominated for Oscars® on three other films: The Hours, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Places in the Heart. Earlier this year, Ms. Roth was also presented with the Costume Designers Guild's honorary Career Achievement for Film Award.

Ms. Roth's most recent work as a costume designer will be seen this year in Miramax Film's Cold Mountain, directed by Anthony Minghella from the best-selling Civil War novel by Charles Frazier, and starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. She has also been working on Frank Oz's The Stepford Wives, and M. Night Shyamalan's The Woods.

In 2002, Ms. Roth created designs for Adaptation (costume designer for Meryl Streep) and Changing Lanes, as well as the 74th Annual Academy Awards television special. In 2001 and 2000, her films included  Someone Like You, Heartbreakers (Sigourney Weaver's gowns), What Planet Are You From? and Finding Forrester.

Ann Roth began her theatrical career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera Company. She moved to New York, and assisted such costume designers as Irene Sharaff and Miles White. Her vast Broadway credits include costume designing for Purlie, The Women, Play It Again, Sam, They're Playing Our Song, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. She received Tony nominations for The Crucifer of Blood, The Royal Family, and Present Laughter. Three years ago, Ms. Roth received the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ms. Roth's earliest film costume designing in the 1960s included The World of Henry Orient and Midnight Cowboy. In the 1970s, she designed costumes for 22 major films, including The Day of the Locust (winner of a BAFTA Award), The Goodbye Girl, Klute, and Hair. In the 1980s, her credits include Dressed to Kill, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The World According to Garp, Sweet Dreams, Working Girl, and Silkwood. In addition to The Talented Mr. Ripley and The English Patient, the 1990s found Ms. Roth designing costumes for Postcards from the Edge, The Mambo Kings, Dave, Guarding Tess, Wolf, Sabrina, The Birdcage, and In & Out, among others.

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