Who is Ruth E. Carter, the first black woman in history to win two Oscars

Ruth E Carter made history: the costume designer behind the movies Black Panther became the first black woman to win two Oscars.

Carter took home the prize for best costume design on Sunday evening in the 95th edition of the Academy Awards for the Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Carter also won in 2018 for Black Panthermaking them the first African American to win in the category.

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In his acceptance speech Carter thanked the film’s director, Ryan Cooglerand brought a request to heaven to the star of Black Panther, Chadwick Bosemanto care for his mother Mabel Carter, who he says passed away “last week.” Boseman passed away in 2020 of cancer at age 43.

‘This is for my mother. I was 101 years old,” Carter said. “This movie prepared me for this moment. Chadwick, please take care of Mom.”.

Carter then paid tribute to her mother backstage. “In her later years I had a great relationship with her. The same relationship I always had with her. I was his ride or die. I was his mutt. I was his partner,” she said. I know you are proud of me. I know she wanted this for me as much as I did for myself.”

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Ruth E. Carter Career

In her career, Carter has been behind the scenes of some of Hollywood’s biggest movies. He has received Oscar nominations for his work on malcolm x (1992) by Spike Lee and Friendship (1997) by Steven Spielberg and has been praised for his historical ensembles in other projects such as The butler by Lee Daniels, selma by Ava DuVernay and the reboot of Estate. made costumes for Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and even Jerry Seinfeld for the pilot Seinfeld.

The designer started in 1988 with School sadness of Lee, the director’s second film. They have been working together ever since more than 10 movies including Do the right thing And tropical fever. He has also worked with Robert Townsend The five heartbeats and with Keenen Ivory Wayans in it I’m gonna give you Sucka.

“I rose with my own resources”Carter said. “I started in a single-parent family. I wanted to be a costume designer. studied. I struggled with adversity in an industry that was sometimes different from me. And I got through it.”

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Via Oscar nominee malcolm x, reached new heights. That movie, starring Denzel Washington, took her to Hollywood, giving you more opportunities to work with directors who had different points of view and scripts.

I work in Black Panther

Carter played an influential role as chief costume designer for making of Black Panther a cultural phenomenon by making the African diaspora proud on the character’s stylish and colorful clothes to bring life wakandan.

She wanted to transform the presence of Queen Ramonda, played by Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, as a queen in the first film into a ruler in the sequel. Black Panther.

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“Angela always wanted to play a queen, so to enhance her we added vibranium…we gave her the royal color of purple and decorated her with gold as she wore the crown at the UN,” explains Carter. “When she is on the throne, she wears a gray one-shoulder dress. Exposed shoulder shows your strength: Angela, she’s got those guns, right?

Carter added that he could get victory against a “difficult line-up”. He faced designers from Elvis, Mrs. Harris goes to Paris, Everything Everywhere Everything at once And Babylon.

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Carter’s wish is that her historic victory on Sunday opens up more opportunities for women of color. “I hope this opens the door for others to win an Oscar as well,” Carter said.