Mark Bridges

Born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York, Mark Bridges received a bachelor of arts degree in theater arts from Stony Brook University. Bridges then worked at the legendary Barbara Matera Costumes in New York City as a shopper for a wide range of Broadway, dance and film projects. Following his time at Matera's, Bridges studied for three years at New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts and received a master of fine arts in costume design. After NYU, Bridges began working in film whenever possible, serving as assistant costume designer on In the Spirit, which starred Marlo Thomas and Elaine May, and was the design assistant to Colleen Atwood on Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob.

In 1988, Bridges worked as a design assistant for costume designer Richard Hornung on Miller's Crossing, a collaboration that would continue for eight more films. In 1989, he relocated to Los Angeles to serve as assistant costume designer to Hornung on The Grifters, Barton Fink, Doc Hollywood, Hero, Dave, The Hudsucker Proxy, Natural Born Killers and Nixon.

In 1995, Bridges began a collaboration with writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson, designing Hard Eight. They next worked together on the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights, followed by Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and The Master, which starred Joaquin Phoenix and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Bridges' more recent projects include HBO's portrait of the 1970s Los Angeles music scene, Vinyl; the big-screen adaptation of the global phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey; the colorful period comedy-crime drama Inherent Vice, which garnered him his second Academy Award® nomination; Paul Greengrass' six-time Oscar®-nominated Captain Phillips; David O. Russell's Oscar®-winning Silver Linings Playbook; The Fighter, which starred Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams; and the short film Dark Memories.

In 2012, Bridges won the Academy Award® for Best Costume Design for Michel Hazanavicius' five-time Oscar® winner The Artist. His work also includes Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, which starred Ben Stiller; Yes Man, which starred Jim Carrey; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, which starred Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr.; Be Cool, with John Travolta; I Heart Huckabees, with Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Huppert; The Italian Job, which starred Wahlberg and Charlize Theron; 8 Mile, which starred Eminem; Blow, which starred Johnny Depp; Deep Blue Sea; Blast From the Past; and Can't Hardly Wait.

Bridges' costume designs were part of the 1998 Biennale di Firenze Fashion/Cinema exhibit and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exhibit "50 Designers/50 Costumes: Concept to Character," which was shown in Los Angeles and Tokyo in 2002. In 2007, Bridges was one of the film artists included in "On Otto," an installation at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.

Bridges' design work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Harper's Bazaar Australia, Vogue, New York Post and The Hollywood Reporter, and in the books "Dressing in the Dark: Lessons in Men's Style From the Movies" by Marion Maneker and "Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design" by Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

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