KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FOURTH ANNUAL “GOLDEN KEY FOR COSTUME DESIGN” HONORING OSCAR®-NOMINATED COSTUME DESIGNER ARIANNE PHILLIPS

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 2019 FESTIVAL RUNS NOVEMBER 20TH -24TH

New York, NY — October 3, 2019 — The Key West Film Festival announced today its fourth annual Costume Design Focus program, honoring Academy Award®-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips.

Phillips’ most recent work is on display in Sony Pictures’ and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She has received Oscar® nominations for her artistry in Walk the Line and W.E. and multiple nominations  for BAFTA, Tony and Costume Design Guild Awards via her work in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Tom Ford’s A Single Man. The Festival will present Phillips with its Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design award, to honor her versatile talents, which have been showcased in everything from period costume dramas to superhero blockbusters.

Phillips will also participate in a discussion of her work, to be moderated by Eric Kohn, Executive Editor and Chief Critic of Indiewire and co-host of the weekly ScreenTalk podcast with Anne Thompson.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of A Single Man on the 10th anniversary of its release as a showcase for Phillips’ work.

The Award will be presented via satellite by Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Dr. Landis, a Costume Design Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and an Academy Award®-nominee, presented the first annual career achievement award for costume design in 2016 to Mary Zophres, who went on to receive an Oscar®  nomination for her work in La La Land, and to the last two year’s honorees, Mark Bridges, who won the 2018 Oscar® for Best Costume Design for The Phantom Thread, and Alexandra Byrne, who’s work in Mary Queen of Scots was recognized by an Academy Award nomination.

Michael Tuckman, Director of Programming of the Key West Film Festival, commented “The time and place that Tarantino captured in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood could not have been accomplished without the true artistry and beauty of the costumes that transported us all back in time and gave the film an authenticity like no other. Arianne Phillips is a master of design and we are thrilled to be able to honor and showcase her work.”

Visit kwfilmfest.com for full program information – which will be announced on October 30, along with a schedule of events and travel and lodging details.

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Tyler Perry, writer, producer, director, stage and screen actor, Film Studio owner, received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on Tuesday, October 1, 2019.

There to give their support and speak at the ceremony was Kerry Washington , who was in his film “Colored Girls” and Idris Elba, who starred in Perry’s film “Daddy’s Little Girl” and Crystal Fox, who plays Hannah Young in his OWN network show “The Have and The Have Nots.”

David and Tamala Mann, Michael Jai White, along with his wife, and the cast from his new Viacom shows, “The Oval” and “Sistas” were out in full force to support Tyler Perry.

Beginning with his first play “I Know I’ve Been Changed”, to Madea ,the hugely successful theatrical plays that became movies, to his first feature film “Dairy of a Mad Black Woman” and now being the first black person to have 100% of a movie studio, Tyler Perry Studios, where Marvel’s Black Panthers was amongst the first to be filmed at his studio.