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Colleen Atwood (born 1948, Quincy, Washington) Upper Education: Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle Washington and then New York University School of Film N.Y, N.Y., is an Academy Award-winning costume designer. Colleen has been nominated for an Academy Award numerous times and won Academy Awards for the movies "Chicago" in 2002 and "Memoirs of a Geisha" in 2006. Colleen has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton and Jonathan Demme. Beginning her career as a fashion advisor in Washington State in the early 1970's, Colleen eventually ventured into the world of costume design for play's and film initially coming to fame through her work on Sting's Bring on the Night World Tour.

Colleen has been partially involved in developing or has been the lead designer for producing the costumes on over 50 films to date. Colleen is also the lead costume designer for all of the new costumes created for Ringling Bros, Barnum Balley Circus in 2005-2006. As a designer of costumes that take people off into the imaginary world of film by portraying the visual ideas of the costumes for the time period a particular film represents. Colleen's genius in expressing herself through her art form continiously reveals the multi-talented abilities of one the great costume designers of this era in film.

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