Costume designer Paul Tazewell received a Tony Award for his work on the Broadway musical “Loss of life Turns into Her.”

Tazewell, who labored on the movie model of “Depraved, made Oscar historical past earlier this 12 months as the primary Black man to win greatest costume design.

Throughout his acceptance speech, Tazewell stated, “The Black, queer, little boy, in Akron, Ohio, had no concept that in 2025, he would have the 12 months that he had.”

He joins Bob Fosse, who additionally achieved the feat of profitable a Tony Award and Oscar in the identical 12 months. That is Tazewell’s second Tony Award. He beforehand received for “Hamilton.”

In his Tony speech on Sunday, Tazewell added: “I’ve dressed so lots of you, and I’ve labored with the remainder of you on the market in creating wonderful worlds and telling fantastic tales, and it’s an enormous privilege to be a significant a part of this Broadway group.”

Talking about his work adapting a few of the most iconic costumes from the 1992 movie of “Loss of life Turns into Her,” Tazewell advised Selection final month, “I knew that it was going to be an enormous problem, as a result of if the remainder of the viewers liked it in the way in which that I did, there have been going to be a number of expectations.”

He added that bringing the movie’s story to the stage had advantages.

“Musical theater and reside efficiency open up a unique method of telling the story,” he stated. “So, not directly, it permits me to broaden my inspiration for a way we need to inform the story.