Colin Firth with Drama Centre London principal Vladmir Mirodan
Colin Firth has been nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor for his role in “A Single Man”.
This is the first Oscar Nomination for a Drama Centre London alumnus. Fingers crossed!
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Colin Firth with Drama Centre London Principal Vladmir Mirodan
CSM’s Drama Centre London alumnus Colin Firth has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in ex- Gucci and YSL designer Tom Ford’s first feature film, A Single Man. The Awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on January 17th.
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CSM alumni Panagiota Chaidogiannou and Thomas Hebdon’s short film is being shown at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
Panagiota and Thomas had the following to say:
Upon discovering the 1minutetosavetheworld competition we were excited by the challenge of creating a film on such a prominent issue that we are passionate about, but within the constraints of 1 minute. The thought of having our work shown at The Copenhagen Climate change conference was appealing, definitely a new audience! We thought it a good idea to combine Flash generated animation with stop motion animation to create distinction between the computer game and the outside ‘real world.’ All aspects of the film were completed by ourselves. This was our first collaborative project.
Visit:
Postgraduate Diploma Character Animation course page
Panagiota’s website
Tom’s websiteClimate Summit website
Drama Centre London alumna, Anne-Marie Duff, is starring in BBC Four’s Margot on Monday 30th November 2009 at 9.00pm. Anne-Marie stars as prima ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn in this drama which explores her dancing partnership and complex relationship with Russian dancer, Rudolph Nureyev. Margot is the last in a series of Women We Loved, three BBC Four films about iconic British women. Another DCL alumna, Penelope Wilton also features in Margot.
Big congratulations to Julia, alumna of MA Communication Design who’s just been awarded first prize at the Illustrative 2009 Festival!
Read more:
Report on the festival and awards at designtaxi.com
Julia’s website
MA Communication Design course page
James Hillman – who’s just graduated from BA Fashion – has snapped up the Levi’s prize at the 17th Mittelmoda International Fashion Awards.
James says of his designs:
“I wanted to address the Reduce, Recycle, Reinvent brief without forgetting to look at Levi’s as the original American brand that it is and focus on its workwear heritage”
Mittelmoda is one of the world’s best respected international fashion competitions. James was one of 600 fashion and design colleges and young designers worldwide every year.
Walking through the college doors for the first time represents a moment of opportunity, adventure and high excitement. CSM professor and alumnus Iain R Webb recalls the unforgettable instant he clapped eyes on fellow student Stephen Jones, today’s much-loved milliner to the stars.
I remember vividly the day I visited St Martin’s (now Central Saint Martins) in the autumn of 1976. Before I even entered the building I was convinced this was the place for me. Standing on the pavement outside, plucking up the courage to go in and wondering if I cut the sartorial mustard wearing a liquorice-thin school tie, plastic sandals and sloppy orange mohair sweater (knitted by my Mum). The doors swept open and out sashayed a boy (or at least I guessed it was a boy) who looked like… well, I wasn’t sure what he looked like, only that I had never seen anyone look like that before. Not in the real world, anyway. He was wearing a skinny matelot T-shirt with giant shoulder pads, exaggerated peg-top pants and stiletto-heeled boots. Around his neck was a scarf knotted at the side and the finishing touch (it should have been a clue) was a black beret worn at a very jaunty angle. He looked breathtaking and fearless and was ‘traffic-stopping’. Literally. He was Stephen Jones, later to become the celebrated and much-loved milliner to the stars.
In just two years time we’ll be moving to a state-of-the-art campus at Kings Cross. It’s an exciting time for us, but it means we’ll be leaving behind buildings we’ve occupied for a century.
We’ve had a presence on Charing Cross Road since 1913 and the Southampton Row building was finished in 1907 at the top of the newly built Kingsway. That’s a lot of history, and we want to make sure we create a comprehensive record of our relationship with our buildings before we leave. During the next 12 months we’ll be asking staff and students to contribute to a ‘warts and all’ record of a year in the life of the College. We want to collect photographs, films, words and drawings for an online gallery and exhibition. Everything you contribute will go into our archive.
Email Judy Lindsay with ideas, media or questions: j.lindsay@csm.arts.ac.uk.
Here are some images, mostly from the 1930s, for your delectation!
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