Oscars

Pamela Ribon wearing a sleeveless royal blue dress with a ribbon tied at the front. Pamela Ribon and Sara Gunnarsdóttir, who are nominated for an Oscar for ...

Ms. McClutchy said she worked with a stylist and rented her awards season outfits from Rent the Runway, trying on many looks and taking the opportunity to experiment with different styles. Cave’s work, adding that she was happy to wear a dress by a female designer because their film is “all about female representation, gaslighting and really sort of restoring agency to our main character, Martha Mitchell.” “I’m bringing my natural world with me to the Oscars on the gown,” she said. “What was really heartening to see was a lot of the designers were really getting behind the story of the film, the story of us as emerging filmmakers.” Alvergue said of Ms. Gonsalves said she chose from a host of different stylists that Netflix offered, landing on one who helped find her Oscars dress. “There’s a bit of a kind of underdog spirit about a short film generally, and particularly about this film,” Mr. The young filmmakers used to joke that if they ever ended up on a red carpet, they would enlist their college friend Tilly Edgcumbe as their stylist. For lesser-known Oscar contenders entering the new territory Ms. Ribon, who is a screenwriter, an author and a television writer, settled on a stylist and a hair and makeup team after asking her agents and friends for recommendations. “I just was like, ‘No, I’m not going to be left on my own on this,’” she added, speaking on a video call from Los Angeles.