"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," "Elvis," "Tár" Among Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees
A scene from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” (Marvel Studios)
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The Costume Designers Guild unveiled the official nominees list and honorees for the 25th CDGA (Costume Designers Guild Awards). 

Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hocus Pocus 2 and Thor: Love and Thunder are up for the award i the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film category.

Nominated in the Contemporary Film category are Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Nope, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick and Women Talking.

Period Film nominees are Babylon, Don’t Worry Darling, Elvis, Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris and The Woman King.
 
Winners in the eight categories spanning features, TV and short-form will be announced live at awards the ceremony on Monday, February 27, at The Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The ceremony will also be highlighted by the presentation of special  honors. Academy Award winner Deborah L. Scott will be honored with the Career Achievement Award and Emmy-nominated costume designer Rachael M. Stanley will receive the Distinguished Service Award.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the CDGA and will highlight the history of costuming throughout the decades while celebrating the creative designers and visionaries behind the seam.

“On behalf of the Costume Designers Guild, I’m honored to congratulate our CDGA nominees. This year is particularly exciting as it’s the 25th anniversary of our awards gala. We look forward to celebrating the extraordinary work of our nominees with all of our talented costume designers,” said Terry Gordon, president of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892.

The Career Achievement Award recognizes leaders who have made a lasting impact on Costume Design. Past recipients include designers Sharen Davis, Ruth E. Carter, Michael Kaplan, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Julie Weiss, Eduardo Castro, Judianna Makovsky, Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell and Ann Roth.

The Distinguished Service Award honors individuals whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of Costume Design. Past recipients include Mary Ellen Fields, Betty Pecha Madden, Maggie Schpak, Sharon Day, Lois DeArmond, Edwina Pellikka and Mary Rose.

Below is the full list of nominations for the 25th CDGA as well as more on special honorees Scott and Stanley.

25th CDGA 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

Deborah L. Scott – 2023 Career Achievement Award Recipient
Deborah L. Scott is an Academy Award-winning costume designer and set designer whose artistic excellence has shaped the film industry for over thirty years. Scott’s impeccable talent and intuitive eye for design has garnered over 50 credits on films including Back to the Future, Minority Report, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Transformers, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Avatar and Titanic - with the latter earning her an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and a BAFTA Award nomination. A true fashion arbiter widely known for the richness and detail of her research, Scott has fluently moved throughout history designing costume pieces from the early 1900s to the modern era. Her latest work is featured in James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water released in theaters December 2022.

Rachael M. Stanley – 2023 Distinguished Service Award Recipient
Rachael M. Stanley is an Emmy-nominated costume designer with over 25 years of experience and credits including five seasons of Sisters, Ally McBeal and 4 seasons of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. She has served as a member of the Executive Peer Group for Costumes Designers and Supervisors with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. After years in the field, she joined the staff of her union, the Costume Designers Guild, Local 892, where she led the union as the Executive Director until her recent retirement in 2023.

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