Sandy Powell(II)

As of 2024, she has contributed with the costume design of nine films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: La moglie del soldato (1992), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed - Il bene e il male (2006), Hugo Cabret (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), La favorita (2018), and The Irishman (2019). Of those, Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Departed - Il bene e il male (2006) are winners in the category.

[on persuading director Iain Softley to change the time of the setting from 1902 to 1910 for Le ali dell'amore (1997)] "And besides, every Merchant-Ivory film is set in 1902, and I wanted the costumes to look different."