Steven Prusakowski
The nominations for the 25th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards have been announced. Look for the likely players in Best Costume Design at the Oscars from the fifteen films cited below. These movies and their costumes should be heavily considered, especially since the CDG noms come right as Academy members are getting set to vote.
Here are the Costume Designers Guild nominees:
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
Avatar: The Way of Water — Deborah L. Scott
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth E. Carter
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Shirley Kurata
Hocus Pocus 2 — Salvador Perez
Thor: Love and Thunder — Mayes C. Rubeo
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Jenny Eagan
Nope — Alex Bovaird
Tár — Bina Daigeler
Top Gun: Maverick — Marlene Stewart
Women Talking — Quita Alfred
Excellence in Period Film
Babylon — Mary Zophres
Don’t Worry Darling — Arianne Phillips
Elvis — Catherine Martin
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Jenny Beavan
The Woman King — Gersha Phillips
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon — Jany Temime
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A Shadow of the Past — Kate Hawley
Westworld: Generation Loss — Debra Beebe
What We Do in the Shadows: The Wedding — Laura Montgomery
The Witcher: Blood Origin: Of Mages, Malice, and Monstrous Mayhem — Lucinda Wright
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Emily in Paris: What’s it All About… — Marylin Fitoussi
Euphoria: Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door — Heidi Bivens
Hacks: The Captain’s Wife — Kathleen Felix-Hager
Wednesday: Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe — Colleen Atwood & Mark Sutherland
The White Lotus: In the Sandbox — Alex Bovaird
Excellence in Period Television
Bridgerton: The Choice — Sophie Canale
The Crown: Ipatiev House — Amy Roberts
The Gilded Age: Let the Tournament Begin — Kasia Walicka-Maimone
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest — Donna Zakowska
Pam & Tommy: I Love You, Tommy — Kameron Lennox
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration — Marina Toybina
Dancing with the Stars: Halloween Night — Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: Girl Run That Sh*t Back — Carrie Cramer & Jason Rembert RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race: RuPaul-A-Palooza! — Tony Iniguez
Saturday Night Live: Miles Teller/Kendrick Lamar — Tom Broecker, Ashley Dudek & Cristina Natividad
Excellence in Short Form Design
Disney+ Has All the GOATs (Commercial) — Melissa DesRosiers
McDonald’s: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Commercial) — Sarah Kinsumba
Nike: Father Time (Commercial) — Shawna Trpcic (For Jason Momoa)
Not Today Flu feat. Jason Alexander (Commercial) — Dawn Ritz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” (Music Video) — Natasha Newman-Thomas
These category distinctions never make any sense. Why is Nope a “Contemporary Film” and not a “Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film?”
Suppose Women Talking is a “Contemporary Film” because it nominally takes place in a contemporary setting, despite all of the costumes reflecting a time period much further back. Why would the present-day-set sci-fi thriller Don’t Worry Darling count as a “Period Film” despite being pretty much the same as Women Talking, costume-wise?
The mind reels…