Costume designer Ruth E. Carter has become the first Black woman in history to win two Academy Awards. She grabbed her first four years ago and added the second on Sunday (12 March) in the category for “Black Panther” sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” at the 95th Academy Awards.
Carter played an influential role in making “Black Panther” a cultural phenomenon with her garments helping to bring the fictional country of Wakanda to life as lead costume designer.
“I pulled myself up from my bootstraps,” she said. “I started in a single parent household. I wanted to be a costume designer. I studied, I scraped, I dealt with adversity in an industry that sometimes didn’t look like me.”
“And I endured, so, I feel that this win opens the door for other young costume designers that may not think this industry is for them and hopefully they’ll see me and see my story and they’ll think that they can win an Oscar too,” she said in her acceptance speech.
According to Euronews, Carter has received Oscar nominations for her work in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and received praise for her period ensembles in other projects such as Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Ava DuVernay’s Selma and the reboot of ROOTS. She’s created costumes for Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and even Jerry Seinfeld for the ‘Seinfeld’ pilot.
Carter looks forward to sweep her third Oscars in the years ahead.
Reporting by Richard Stix-Mensah in Accra
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