2026 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN and PRODUCTION DESIGN (December)

Erik Anderson December 18, 2025

Since we were here last we’ve had nominations from Critics Choice (CCA) and the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) to help guide the path for that category and CCA for production design.

The CCA/CDG crossover gives us the main frontrunners here in Frankenstein, Wicked: For Good, Hamnet and Sinners with Hedda showing surprising strength. Two shocking misses at CDG were the two most-rewarded living designers, Colleen Atwood for Kiss of the Spider Woman (although she did get in for One Battle After Another in the less competitive contemporary category) and Sandy Powell for Snow White. Had Powell secured a spot here her 16th Oscar nomination would practically be set in stone as she’s never missed when she’s nominated by the CDG first. But alas, it is not to be. Atwood isn’t out of it yet, but for now I’m sticking with the CCA/CDG five. But, Marty Supreme is right around the corner and obviously, if One Battle After Another massively overperforms on nomination morning, that rare contemporary costume design nomination is in sight.

We won’t have Set Decorators Society Of America nominations until January 5 and Art Directors Guild (ADG) nominations until January 7 and Set Decorators so until then we have CCA and instincts. Don’t think there’s any need to budge from the same top 5 I had in November but again, as in costume design, keeping an eye out for One Battle to blow up and get in here too.

Here are my 2026 Oscar nomination predictions in Costume Design and Production Design for December.

COSTUME DESIGN

1. Frankenstein — Kate Hawley (Netflix)	CCA, CDG
2. Wicked: For Good — Paul Tazewell (Universal Pictures)	CCA, CDG
3. Hamnet — Malgosia Turzanska (Focus Features)	CCA, CDG
4. Sinners — Ruth E. Carter (Warner Bros)	CCA, CDG
5. Hedda — Lindsay Pugh (Amazon MGM) ↑	CCA, CDG
6. Marty Supreme — Miyako Bellizzi (A24) ↓	CCA
7. Kiss of the Spider Woman — Colleen Atwood and Christine L. Cantella (Roadside Attractions) ↓
8. One Battle After Another — Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros)	CDG
9. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale — Anna Mary Scott Robbins (Focus Features)	CDG
10. Snow White — Sandy Powell (Walt Disney)

11. The Phoenician Scheme — Melina Cananero (Focus Features)
12. The Fantastic Four: First Steps — Alexandra Byrne (Walt Disney)
13. Nouvelle Vague — Pascaline Chavanne (Netflix)
14. Nuremberg — Bartholomew Cariss (Sony Pictures Classics)
15. The Testament of Ann Lee — Malgorzata Karpiuk (Searchlight Pictures) ↓
16. Blue Moon — Consolata Boyle (Sony Pictures Classics)
17. Train Dreams — Malgosia Turzanska (Netflix)
18. The Secret Agent — Rita Azevedo (NEON)
19. Song Sung Blue — Ernesto Martinez (Focus Features) ↑
20. The Mastermind — Amy Roth (MUBI)

Other contenders: The History of Sound — Miyako Bellizzi (MUBI) ↓, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — Kasia Walicka Maimone (20th Century Studios)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell, set decoration: Shane Vieau (Netflix)	CCA
2. Wicked: For Good — Nathan Crowley, set decoration: Lee Sandales (Universal Pictures)	CCA
3. Sinners — Hannah Beachler, set decoration: Monique Champagne (Warner Bros)	CCA
4. Hamnet — Fiona Crombie, set decoration: Alice Felton (Focus Features)	CCA
5. Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk, set decoration: Adam Willis (A24)	CCA
6. Avatar: Fire and Ash — Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, set decoration: Vanessa Cole (20th Century Studios)
7. One Battle After Another — Florencia Martin, set decoration: Anthony Carlino (Warner Bros)
8. The Fantastic Four: First Steps — Kasra Farahani, set decoration: Jille Azis (Walt Disney) ↑	CCA
9. Hedda — Cara Bower, set decoration: Stella Fox (Amazon MGM) ↑
10. Nouvelle Vague — Katia Wyszkop (Netflix)

11. Train Dreams — Alexandra Schaller, set decoration: Melissa Jusufi (Netflix)
12. Nuremberg — Eve Stewart (Sony Pictures Classics)
13. The Testament of Ann Lee — Sam Bader, set decoration: Lauren Doss and Mercédesz Nagyváradi (Searchlight Pictures) ↓
14. The Phoenician Scheme — Adam Stockhausen, set decoration: Anna Pinnock (Focus Features) ↓
15. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale — Donal Woods, set decoration: Linda Wilson (Focus Features)
16. Kiss of the Spider Woman — Scott Chambliss, set decoration: Andrew Baseman (Roadside Attractions)
17. Blue Moon — Susie Cullen, set decoration: Kevin Downey, Elia Martinoli (Sony Pictures Classics)
18. The Secret Agent — Thales Junqueira (NEON)
19. The Mastermind — Anthony Gasparro, set decoration: Amy Beth Silver (MUBI)
20. The History of Sound — Deborah Jensen, set decoration: Toni Child, Mary Fellowes, Laura Latorre (MUBI)

Other contenders: How to Train Your Dragon — Daniel Watkins, set decoration: Daniel Birt (Universal Pictures), Mickey 17 — Fiona Crombie, set decoration: Alice Felton (Warner Bros)

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.