TV winners include "Westworld," "The Queen’s Gambit," "Hamilton," "Schitt’s Creek"
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mulan and Promising Young Woman came up winners in the feature film categories at the 23rd CDGA (Costume Designers Guild Awards) which took place Tuesday evening (4/13) on Twitter.
Taking the TV honors were Westworld, The Queen’s Gambit, Schitt’s Creek and Hamilton.
The short form winner was Apple’s “The Stunt Double.” Damien Chazelle directed the Apple short.
Lana Condor hosted the evening’s ceremony which also celebrated award-winning producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers who were jointly honored with the Distinguished Collaborator Award. The Distinguished Collaborator Award honors individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of Costume Design and creative partnerships with Costume Designers.
Executive produced by JumpLine, the annual CDGA gala celebrated excellence in film, television, and short form costume design as voted on by the Guild’s membership.
Participating talent in the night’s ceremony and celebration included Rose Byrne (actress, Mrs. America), Nicola Coughlan (actress, Bridgerton), Andra Day (actress/musician, The United States vs. Billie Holiday), O-T Fagbenle (actor, Black Widow), Emerald Fennell (actress, and writer/director of Promising Young Woman), Ilana Glazer (actress/writer, Broad City), Regina King (actress, and director of One Night in Miami), Carey Mulligan (writer, and actress in Promising Young Woman), Leslie Odom Jr. (actor, Hamilton, One Night in Miami), and Amanda Seyfried (actress, Mank).
Here’s a rundown of winners in the eight competitive categories voted on by the Guild’s membership:
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
Mulan – Bina Daigeler
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Promising Young Woman – Nancy Steiner
Excellence in Period Film
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
Westworld: “Parce Domine” – Shay Cunliffe
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Schitt’s Creek: “Happy Ending” – Debra Hanson
Excellence in Period Television
The Queen’s Gambit: “End Game” – Gabriele Binder
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Hamilton – Paul Tazewell
Excellence in Short Form Design
Apple: Shot on iPhone by Damien Chazelle – Vertical Cinema “The Stunt Double” short film – April Napier
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More