The fashion of Poor Things, Barbie and Saltburn were the top winners at the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards tonight for film. The Great, Beef and Ashoka won the television categories.
Holly Waddington won for excellence in period film for Poor Things over fellow Oscar nominees Jacqueline West (Killers of the Flower Moon,) Janty Yates & Dave Crossman (Napoleon) and Ellen Mirojnick (Oppenheimer) while Jacqueline Durran’s win for Barbie came from the sci-fi/fantasy film category. In the Oscar race, Poor Things won the BAFTA last week and now the CDG while Barbie has CDG and Critics Choice.
Actor, comedian and producer Wendi McLendon-Covey hosted the event, which took place at at NeueHouse Hollywood.
The CareerAchievementwent to Francine Jamison-Tanchuck (The Color Purple) and was presented by Danielle Brooks. The CDG Spotlight honored Annette Bening, who was unable to attend due to a recent COVID diagnosis. Costume designer Kelli Jones (Nyad) and Albert Wolsky (Bugsy) accepted on her behalf. Billie Eilish received the Vanguard Spotlight from costume designer Shirley Kurata, thanking hip-hop culture in her speech.
Shawna Trpcic, who passed away in October, had earned double nominated for her television work and for Ahsoka, which took the excellence in sci-fi/fantasy television award. Madonna X Vanity Fair – The Enlightenment (Short Film) won the award for excellence in short form design.
Here is the complete list of winners of the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards.
Excellence in Contemporary Film
American Fiction – Rudy Mance
May December – April Napier
NYAD – Kelli Jones
Renfield – Lisa Lovaas
Saltburn – Sophie Canale – WINNER
Excellence in Period Film
Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West
Maestro – Mark Bridges
Napoleon – Janty Yates & Dave Crossman
Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick
Poor Things – Holly Waddington – WINNER
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Barbie – Jacqueline Durran – WINNER
Haunted Mansion – Jeffrey Kurland
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Trish Summerville
The Little Mermaid – Colleen Atwood & Christine Cantella
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Stephanie Porter
Excellence in Contemporary Television
The Bear: Fishes – Courtney Wheeler
BEEF: The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain – Helen Huang – WINNER
The Last of Us: Endure and Survive – Cynthia Ann Summers
The Morning Show: The Kármán Line – Sophie de Rakoff & Debra McGuire
Poker Face: The Orpheus Syndrome – Trayce Gigi Field
Excellence in Period Television
The Crown: Ritz – Amy Roberts
Daisy Jones & the Six: Track 8: Looks Like We Made It – Denise Wingate
George & Tammy: Two Story House – Mitchell Travers
The Gilded Age: You Don’t Even Like Opera – Kasia Walicka Maimone & Patrick Wiley
The Great: Choose Your Weapon – Sharon Long – WINNER
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
Ahsoka: Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord – Shawna Trpcic – WINNER
Loki: 1893 – Christine Wada
The Mandalorian: Chapter 22: Guns for Hire – Shawna Trpcic
What We Do in the Shadows: Pride Parade – Laura Montgomery
The Witcher: The Art of the Illusion – Lucinda Wright
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
A Black Lady Sketch Show: Peek-A-Boob, Your Titty’s Out – Michelle Page Collins – WINNER
Dancing with the Stars: Monster Night – Steven Norman Lee & Daniela Gschwendtner
The Masked Singer: ’80s Night – Tim Chappel
The Masked Singer: One Hit Wonders Night – Marina Toybina & Steven Norman Lee
Saturday Night Live: Aubrey Plaza Host – Tom Broecker, Christina Natividad & Ashley Dudek
Excellence in Short Form Design
American Horror Story: Delicate | Official Teaser (Commercial) – Paula Bradley
Blink 182 – DANCE WITH ME (Music Video) – Julie Vogel
Great Acting or Great Taste – Pepsi (Commercial) – Heather Allison
Jack’s New Angle (Doritos Superbowl) (Commercial) – Trayce Gigi Field
Madonna X Vanity Fair – The Enlightenment (Short Film) – B. Åkerlund – WINNER
Excellence in Costume Illustration
1923: War and the Turquoise Tide – Maggie S. Chan
Haunted Mansion – Barbra Araujo
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Song Songbirds & Snakes – Oksana Nedavniaya
Loki: 1893 – Felipe Sanchez
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Jason Pastrana – WINNER
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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.
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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.