Costume Designers Guild (CGD): ‘Weapons,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Score Nominations
The Costume Designers Guild has announced nominations for the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards, with One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Weapons, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Frankenstein among the film mentions for contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy.
Colleen Atwood, a CDG and Oscar favorite, was a triple nominee this morning across three different categories. Atwood is nominated in the excellence in contemporary film for One Battle After Another, alongside Mark Sutherland in excellence in contemporary television for Wednesday and for designing the costumes of Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” music video.
Notable misses included Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme and The Testament of Ann Lee.
Eligibility rules for the film categories are as follows:
A.) Excellence in Contemporary Film – Any entry with at least 55% of all costumes (including background) existing within the last 25 years from the current award year [on or after January 1, 2000] will be considered a Contemporary Film entry.
B.) Excellence in Period Film -Any entry with at least 55% of all costumes (including background) existing in a historical era, or a stylized historical era, greater than 25 years [on or before December 31, 1999] from the current entry year will be considered a Period Film entry.
C.) Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film – Any entry with at least 15% of all costumes (including background) being Science Fiction or Fantasy, i.e., costumes that are not reality-based, but based on a fictitious, magical, mythical, and/or alternate world, will be considered a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film entry.
On the TV side, Emmy winners Michael Wilkinson (Andor) and Kameron Lennox (The Studio) landed nominations alongside The Gilded Age, The Righteous Gemstones, 1923 and Murderbot.
“We are proud to congratulate this year’s CDGA nominees. You create characters that inspire audiences and shape the future. We look forward to celebrating you and your brilliant work on this incredible evening. Best wishes to each nominee,” said Terry Ann Gordon, president of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892.
Winners will be announced at the CDG ceremony on February 12, 2026, at The Ebell of Los Angeles, California.
Here is the complete list of nominations.
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Bugonia – Jennifer Johnson, CDG
F1 The Movie – Julian Day, CDG
One Battle After Another – Colleen Atwood, CDG
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Jenny Eagan, CDG
Weapons – Trish Summerville, CDG
Excellence in Period Film
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale – Anna Mary Scott Robbins
Frankenstein – Kate Hawley, CDG
Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska, CDG
Hedda – Lindsay Pugh
Sinners – Ruth E. Carter, CDG
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Deborah L. Scott, CDG
How To Train Your Dragon – Lindsay Pugh
Thunderbolts* – Sanja Milkovic Hays, CDG
Tron: Ares – Christine Bieselin Clark, CDG & Alix Friedberg, CDG
Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell, CDG
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Emily in Paris – “Veni, Vidi, Venezia” – Marylin Fitoussi
Hacks – “Heaven” – Kathleen Felix-Hager, CDG
The Righteous Gemstones – “You Hurled Me Into the Depths, Into the Very Heart
of the Seas” – Christina Flannery, CDG
The Studio – “CinemaCon” – Kameron Lennox, CDG
Wednesday – “Woe Me The Money” – Colleen Atwood, CDG & Mark Sutherland
Excellence in Period Television
1923 – “A Dream and a Memory” – Janie Bryant, CDG & Gaby Acosta, CDG
Chief of War – “City of Flowers” – Caroline Eselin-Schaefer, CDG
House of Guinness – “Episode 4” – Edward K. Gibbon
Palm Royale – “Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle” – Alix Friedberg, CDG &
Leigh Bell, CDG
The Gilded Age – “Marriage Is a Gamble” – Kasia Walicka Maimone
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
Andor – “Harvest” – Michael Wilkinson, CDG
Black Mirror – “USS Callister: Into Infinity” – Matthew Price
Murderbot – “FreeCommerce” – Carrie Grace, CDG & Laura Jean Shannon, CDG
The Wheel of Time – “He Who Comes With The Dawn” – Sharon Gilham
The Witcher – “Baptism of Fire” – Lucinda Wright
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Dancing with the Stars – “Premiere” – Steven Norman Lee, CDG & Daniela
Gschwendtner, CDG
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special – Tom Broecker, CDG, Cristina
Natividad, & Ashley Dudek
The Masked Singer – “The Lucky 6: Merging of the Masks” – Steven Norman Lee,
CDG & Luke D’Alessandro, CDG
The Traitors – “Til Death Us Do Part” – Sam Spector, CDG & Rikki Finlay
Wicked: One Wonderful Night – Katja Cahill, CDG
Excellence in Short Form Design
Someday by Spike Jonze: AirPods 4 – Kym Barrett, CDG
Dandyland Episode 10 – Rafaella Rabinovich
Lady Gaga: The Dead Dance (Music Video) – Colleen Atwood, CDG
Batman vs. Bateman: State Farm – Anette Cseri, CDG
Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings – Super Bowl – Michelle Martini, CDG
Excellence in Costume Illustration
On Swift Horses – Eduardo Lucero, CDG Illustrator
Palm Royale – Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator
Sinners – Felipe Sanchez, CDG Illustrator
Weapons – Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator
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