Costumes from “Avatar: The Way of Water”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “Glass Onion”, “Top Gun”, “Babylon” and “Elvis” are among the nominees for the 25th Annual Awards of the Costume Designers Union. which were announced on Thursday.
Fifteen movies, 20 television shows and five short-form projects were nominated by the guild, which will announce the winners on Monday, February 27 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
In the Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film category, the nominees were “Avatar,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Everything Everywhere,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” and “Thor: Love and Thunder.” “Avatar” nominee costume designer Deborah L. Scott will also receive this year’s Professional Achievement Award at the CDGA ceremony.
In the Excellence in Contemporary Film category, the nominees are the costume designers of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, “Nope”, “Tár”, “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking”. In Excellence in Period Films, the Guild nominated “Babylon,” “Don’t Worry Darling,” “Elvis,” “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” and “The King Woman.”
In recent years, the Costume Designers Guild has typically nominated three or four of the films that have received Best Costume Design Oscar nominations. Those nominees almost always come from the period and fantasy categories. For the past two consecutive years, all five Oscar nominees had also been recognized by the CDG; last year, four were from the period category and one from the fantasy category.
Nominees in TV categories include “House of the Dragon,” “The Rings of Power,” “Emily in Paris,” “Wednesday,” “The Gilded Age,” “Pam & Tommy,” “Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” and “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls”.
Also at the CDGA ceremony, costume designer Rachael M. Stanley will be honored with the Distinguished Service Award. As the show marks the 25th anniversary of the awards, it will honor the art and history of costumes.
Find a full list of nominees below:
Excellence in Science Fiction/Fantasy Film
Avatar: The Waterway – Deborah L. Scott
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth E. Carter
Everything Everywhere, Everything At Once – Shirley Kurata
Hocus Pocus 2 – Salvador Perez
Thor: Love and Thunder – Mayes C. Rubeo
Excellence in Contemporary Cinema
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Jenny Eagan
No – Alex Bovaird
Tar – Bina Daigeler
Top Gun: Maverick – Marlene Stewart
Women Talking – Quita Alfred
Excellence in period cinema
Babylon – Maria Zofres
Don’t worry honey – Arianne Phillips
Elvis – Catalina Martin
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Jenny Beavan
The King Woman – Gersha Phillips
Excellence in Science Fiction/Fantasy Television
House of the Dragon: Inheritors 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 is it 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 and Mark Sutherland
The White Lotus: In the Sandbox – Alex Bovaird
Excellence in Vintage Television
Bridgerton: The Choice – Sophie Canale
The Crown: Ipatiev House – Amy Roberts
The Golden Age: Let the Tournament Begin – Kasia Walicka-Maimone
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cutting Contest – Donna Zakowska
Pam and Tommy: I love you, Tommy – Kameron Lennox
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Beauty and the Beast: 30th Celebration – Marina Toybina
Dancing with the Stars: Halloween Night – Daniela Gschwendtner and 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 and 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
