Oscar Dresses: Hilary Swank' Oscar dress 2000
Hilary Swank in Oscar dress by Randolph Duke at 2000 Academy Awards
Designer of Oscar dresses:
Of course, everyone knows that Hilary Swank was meant to wear a Dior couture Oscar dress John Galliano whipped up for her, when she won for "Boys Don't Cry." Dior even flew in a couturier for last-minute alterations. But Hilary Swank went with the bronze Randolph Duke ballgown - Oscar dress - which husband Chad Lowe adored. "What people don't know," said stylist Jessica Paster, who worked with Swank, "is that we didn't put her in the Randolph Oscar dress 'til Saturday at 11 am.
"If the Dior Oscar dress was amazing, believe me, she would have worn it," she added. "The color, dark gray, didn't work on her - it made her look ashen."
"Oscar dress was such an ordeal," said the awards show virgin Hilary Swank, who had initially planned to wear a revealing Randolph Duke. "I finally picked this Oscar dress at one in the morning. I just feel beautiful in it."
The Oscar Winner:
Swank, who was born on July 30, 1974 in Lincoln, Nebraska, won an Academy Award for Best Actress, for 1999's factual Boys Don't Cry, in which she delivered a gut- wrenching performance as Brandon Teena, a tomboyish girl who, in rural Nebraska in 1993, was raped and murdered for masquerading as a man.
Celebrity in Oscar dresses:
Kimberly Peirce, director of "Boys Don't Cry," wearing black pants and black cowgal fringed halter, "I searched the whole country" looking for her lead actor/actress who plays a woman acting like a man, "and interviewed every butch lesbian and transsexual out there." And then she found Hilary Swank, the virtual unknown, and the director knew she had found her boy-girl-an.
Hilary Swank could be the dark horse in the Oscar dress at 2000 Academy Awards. The 25-year-old actress may have relished her role as a boy, but she loves to show that she's all woman.
Who, by the way, looked as hot as a baked potato in the Randolph Oscar dress. (And who, by the way, later won the Oscar for Best Actress.)
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