13 Facts About Anthea Sylbert

Anthea Sylbert was an American film producer and costume designer, who was active during the "modern era" of American film.

Anthea Sylbert was nominated twice for Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, first at the 47th Academy Awards for Chinatown, and then at the 50th Academy Awards for her work on Julia.

At the 7th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards in 2005, Anthea Sylbert was an honoree, receiving the Lacoste Career Achievement award for film.

Anthea Sylbert Giannakouros was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 6,1939, to parents Nick and Georgia Giannakouros and lived in what has been described as a "close-knit Greek family".

Anthea Sylbert was recognized with the Costume Designers Guild's Lacoste Career Achievement Award in 2005.

Anthea Sylbert worked with Chinatown from its early days after her brother-in-law Richard Anthea Sylbert introduced and recommended her to director Roman Polanski.

Anthea Sylbert was affectionately known in that close-working, small group of accomplished filmmakers as Ant for her penchant for "stringently straight" dark skirts and black turtlenecks.

Anthea Sylbert was known to be "utterly unafraid to speak truth, no matter how ugly, to anyone, no matter how powerful".

Anthea Sylbert was nominated for the 1975 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for her work on the film.

Anthea Sylbert was nominated for the 1978 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for her work on the film Julia.

Anthea Sylbert was married to actor and writer Richard Romanus from August 1985 until his death in December 2023.

Anthea Sylbert died in Skiathos on June 18,2024, at the age of 84.

Anthea Sylbert was an honoree at the 7th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, where she received the Lacoste Career Achievement award for film.