Dune, Coming 2 America and Cruella topped the sci-fi/fantasy, contemporary and period film categories, respectively, at the 24th Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony held live on The Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Wednesday (3/9) evening.
The winners on the TV side included episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, Emily in Paris, The Great and Saturday Night Live.
Earning distinction in the Short Form Design category was the Swarovski commercial titled “Welcome to Wonderlab.”
Andrew Rannells and Casey Wilson co-hosted the evening which celebrated special honorees Andrew Garfield (actor, Spotlight Award), Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor (producers, Distinguished Collaborator Award), and Sharen Davis (costume designer, Career Achievement Award). The Spotlight Award honors an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design, the Distinguished Collaborator Award honors individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers, and the Career Achievement Award recognizes leaders who have made a lasting impact on costume design.
The following is the list of winners in the eight competitive categories voted on by the Guild’s membership:
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Dune – Jacqueline West & Robert Morgan
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Coming 2 America – Ruth E. Carter
Excellence in Period Film
Cruella – Jenny Beavan
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 1 – Shawna Trpcic
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Emily in Paris: French Revolution – Patricia Field & Marylin Fitoussi
Excellence in Period Television
The Great: Five Days – Sharon Long
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Saturday Night Live: Rami Malek/Young Thug – Tom Broecker & Eric Justian
Excellence in Short Form Design
Swarovski: “Welcome to Wonderlab” (Commercial) – B. Åkerlund
Participating talent included Judith Light (actress, tick, tick… Boom!) who presented the Spotlight Award, Laura Dern (actress, Marriage Story) who presented the Distinguished Collaborator Award, Aunjanue Ellis (actress, King Richard) who presented the Career Achievement Award with a surprise video message from Will Smith (actor, King Richard), and Glenn Close (actress, Swan Song), who inducted the late Anthony Powell into the Costume Designers Guild Hall of Fame with a special filmed message. In addition, Jabari Banks (actor, Bel Air), Stephanie Beatriz (actress, Encanto), Ariana DeBose (actress, West Side Story), Melora Hardin (actress, The Bold Type), Christopher McDonald (actor, Hacks), Alfred Molina (actor, Spider-Man: No Way Home), Karen Pittman (actress, The Morning Show), Storm Reid (actress, Euphoria) and Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino (actress, Shining Vale) all presented awards in the show. Coco Jones (actress, Bel Air) was also in attendance.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More