English costume designer Anthony Powell was BOTD in 1935. Born in Manchester, he became interested in theatre as a child, creating and performing his own puppet shows. After two years as a radio operator in the British Army, he studied at the Central School of Arts in London, and apprenticed with celebrity designers Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel. In 1963, John Gielgud invited him to design a revival of The School for Scandal. The Broadway transfer was a success, earning Powell his first Tony Award for costume design. He shifted into film, working on historical epics The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Nicholas and Alexandra. He won an Oscar in 1972 for the comedy Travels with My Aunt starring Maggie Smith, becoming Smith’s designer for her Broadway appearances in Lettice and Lovage and a revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. He is best known for his work in the 1978 film of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, dressing Smith, Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury in theatrical 1920s attire, and for Roman Polanski’s 1979 Thomas Hardy adaptation Tess. Both films won Powell an Oscar for costume design, attracting Hollywood’s attention. In the 1980s, he reunited with Smith for an extremely camp film adaptation of Christie’s Evil Under the Sun and made two further films with Polanski. In a change of pace, he worked with Steven Spielberg on two Indiana Jones sequels and the Peter Pan-inspired comedy Hook. In 1993, he costumed the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard, and the 1994 Broadway transfer starring Glenn Close. Powell went on to costume Close as villainess Cruella de Vil in the 1996 comedy film 101 Dalmatians and its sequel. Largely retired by the 2000s, Close lured him out of retirement to work on the 2017 revival of Sunset Boulevard, earning him his final Tony nomination. Powell never married or had children, and little is known about his sexuality or relationship (though given his penchant for camp spectacle and his friendship circle of camp actresses and homosexuals, we at SuperGays Headquarters feel confident in reading between the lines). He died in a London nursing home in 2021, aged 85.