Overview
- Friends and colleagues announced that Albert Wolsky died at his home in Hollywood on Saturday, May 23, and multiple outlets corroborated the report.
- Wolsky won Academy Awards for All That Jazz and Bugsy and received seven Oscar nominations over a five-decade screen career that made him a go-to designer for directors from Bob Fosse to Sam Mendes.
- He began on Broadway as an assistant to Helene Pons and other leading costumers before moving into credited Broadway work in the 1960s and later mentoring many younger designers.
- Wolsky continued working into his nineties with credits spanning Birdman, Ad Astra and a final film credit on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam in 2022.
- Beyond costumes, he served four terms on the Academy’s board, donated sketches to the Margaret Herrick Library, and left a lasting influence on period and character design that will shape film and theatre production and training going forward.