Oscar-nominated costume designer Mark Bridges talks to HitFix about “Inherent Vice” and finally getting a nomination for a Paul Thomas Anderson film.

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‘Iconic Moment’ discussion will precede screening of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo.’

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This year’s Best Costume Design category features the two nomination-leading Best Picture nominees, and three films nominated in no other category — including two well-dressed critical bombs. We consider what will win, and what should.

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For those of us who closely monitor the caliber of film costumes, Mark Bridges’s talent has been apparent for well over a decade, going back to at least Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights.” Efforts such as “Magnolia,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Blast from the Past,” “There Will Be Blood” and “The Fighter” have shown Bridges’s ability to design threads for numerous periods and in a vast array of genres. His collaboration with Michel Hazanavicus on “The Artist,” however, has probably presented him with his best chance to date to finally find a place in Oscar’s final quintet.

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With credits including “Boogie Nights,” “There Will Be Blood” and “The Fighter,” Mark Bridges has made a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s most inspired costume designers, but the Academy’s never taken notice. That could all change with “The Artist.”

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