Arianne Phillips Honored With Creative Visionary Award at Newport Fest

Costume designer Arianne Phillips will be honored with the Newport Beach Film Festival Creative Visionary Award.

The festival and its partner, Fashion Island, will be honoring Phillips with the award during Fashion Island’s 13th Annual StyleWeekOC on Oct. 19. Aubrey Plaza (“Megalopolis,” “The White Lotus”) will present the award, and the Costume Designer Guild’s communications director Anna Wyckoff will host a moderated conversation.

“I’m so thankful to the Newport Beach Film Festival and Fashion Island for this wonderful honor and for acknowledging the art of costume design and our contribution to filmmaking. I am especially grateful to be recognized for my work this year on ‘Joker: Folie á Deux’ and ‘A Complete Unknown.’ I’m humbled to be included alongside such exciting talent at the festival this year,” said Phillips.

In “A Complete Unknown,” Phillips reunites with frequent collaborator James Mangold to tell Bob Dylan’s story. Timothée Chalamet stars as a young Dylan in his early years in New York City, leading up to the Earth-shattering moment he strapped on an electric guitar during his 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance.

Phillips’ retro designs have been teased in trailer for the film, which opens on Dec. 25.

Phillips will head to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, where she will join Variety for the festival’s annual Behind Her Lens panel along with a conversation following a screening of the “Joker” sequel.

As previously announced, Phillips is set to receive the Precious Gem Award at Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival GEMS.

Aside from her costume design work, Phillips was a driving force for the costume design guild’s fight for pay equity. “This is about feeling devalued, and we are here to try to make a correction,” she told Variety in 2020.

When the Academy Museum first opened, aside from loaning pieces from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Phillips, the co-founder of Red Carpet Advocacy, an organization that brings together fashion and philanthropy, teamed up with online retailer Yoox on a capsule collection of Hollywood-inspired graphic T-shirts, with 100% of proceeds benefiting the museum.