Costume Designers Guild Awards: ‘Dune’, ‘Cruella’ & ‘Coming 2 America’ Take Film Prizes – Winners List
Dune, Cruella and Coming 2 America went home with the film prizes at the 24th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight in Santa Monica. Check out the winners list below.
Disney’s Cruella, set in punk-era ’70s London, took the first award of the night, with Jenny Beavan winning for Excellence in Period Film. Jacqueline West & Robert Morgan later picked up the Sci-Fi/Fantasy statuette for Warner Bros’ epic Dune.
Ruth E. Carter — who in 2019 became the first Black woman to win the Costume Design Oscar — won the Contemporary Film prize for Amazon Studios’ Coming 2 America. She will be a presenter at the Academy Awards this month.
On the TV side, Sharon Long won Excellence in Period Television for Hulu’s The Great, and the Sci-Fi/Fantasy trophy went to Shawna Trpcic for Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett. Patricia Field & Marylin Fitoussi won the Contemporary category for Netflix’s Emily in Paris, and Tom Broecker & Eric Justian won Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television for NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
B Åkerlund won the Short Form Design prize for Welcome to Wonderlab.
Current Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield was presented with the CDG’s Spotlight Award tonight. “Working alongside so many magnificent designers throughout his career, [Garfield] has etched countless indelible images on the screen,” Tony winner Judith Light said in introducing the tick, tick…BOOM! star.
In accepting, Garfield said, “Thank you for your art, thank you for your hearts — and I hope we get to keep creating together.”
Two-time Oscar nominee Sharen Davis was honored with the Career Achievement Award. “There is no understudy for the costume designer,” she said onstage. “We are critical to incredible filmmaking. Let’s make this year the year that we get pay equity!”
Presenter Aunjanue Ellis said: “No matter the challenge, Sharen has a way of discovering the truth of the characters and creating their looks based on those truths. Her flexibility is just as impressive as her talent.”
Producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor received the guild’s Distinguished Collaborator Award. Two-time Oscar nominee Pascal quipped from the stage, “In the words of Jack Nicholson: ‘Let the wardrobe do the acting.'” Introducing the pair, Oscar winner Laura Dern said: “It takes true magic for a collaboration to be a success. The recipients of our distinguished collaborator honor tonight possess that magic.”
Andrew Rannells and Casey Wilson hosted the in-person show from the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
The Costume Designers Guild’s marquee movie categories are divided into Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Contemporary and Period categories. Since the CDGAs launched in 1999, the Academy Award for Costume Design has gone to a period film every year but twice — with only Mad Max: Fury Road (2016) and Black Panther (2019) bucking the trend. True to form, four of this year’s five Oscar nominees are set in days gone by. The fifth, Dune, is in far-future tense.
Last year, the top CDGAs went to Promising Young Woman (Contemporary), Mulan (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) and eventual Oscar winner Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Period).
The CDG — IATSE Local 892 — includes more than 1,000 costume designers and illustrators working in motion pictures, TV, commercials, music videos and new-media programs around the world.
Here are the winners at the Costume Designers Guild Awards:
WINNERS
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: Seven 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