Costume Designers Guild (CGD) Winners: ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Andor’ and More
Colleen Atwood (One Battle After Another), Paul Tazewell (Wicked: For Good) and Kate Hawley (Frankenstein) were the big winners of the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards on Thursday evening at The Ebell of Los Angeles, California.
On the television side, Kameron Lennox took home the award for her costuming on The Studio, while Michael Wilkinson won for Andor.
Actor Courtney Hope who plays Sally Spectra on “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” hosted the evening, which celebrated special honorees Michelle Cole, James Cameron and Kate Hudson.
Oscar and Grammy-nominated actress, director, producer, choreographer, creative director, and musician Teyana Taylor was honored with the Vanguard Spotlight Award, and costume designer and nine-time Emmy Award nominee Michelle Cole received this year’s Career Achievement Award.
“Costume Design has always been bigger than fashion. In my life, it’s storytelling. Before a character ever speaks, what they wear is already telling you who they are, their strength, their vulnerability, their journey. That kind of visual language has inspired me since I was a little girl,” she said. “This award represents creative freedom, the freedom to take risks, push boundaries and honor where I came from and just to continue to evolve to the next generation of creatives.”
Cole who is on the board, thanked the guild’s president Terry Gordon and said, “They are fighting for each and every one of you designers.”
Tazewell who won for excellence in sci-fi/fantasy for Wicked: For Good’called his win a full circle moment. He said, “To have experienced the journey that I experienced, creating the costumes, the looks for the world of Wicked and Wicked: For Good has changed my life in so many profound ways.
The evening’s Distinguished Collaborator Award was presented to James Cameron by Deborah L. Scott. The award recognizes individuals whose exceptional skills and contributions have significantly advanced the craft and art of costume design. It highlights behind-the-scenes professionals whose dedication and expertise are essential to the storytelling process through costume design.
“Deborah had to clothe 2200 extras. So you can look at the task in terms of its scale; ,all of these costumes for the first class, second class, third class passengers and all the crew and so on.,”said Cameron. But I think that you can imagine the scale of that project, especially when all the costumes had to go in the water and come back out and still be usable, tuxedos and everything getting immersed night after night, because the Titanic itself sank once for a movie, we had to sink it over and over.”
Cameron ended his speech by saying, “These awards and this community that celebrates the art of design is so critical in this Age of the onslaught of AI.” He added, “AI don’t sew.”
For the first time in the history of the guild, there was a tie in the excellence in short form design category Rafaella Rabinovich won for “Dandyland” Episode 10 and Michelle Martini, CDG for“Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings” – Super Bowl.
Here is the complete list of winners.
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Bugonia – Jennifer Johnson, CDG
F1 – Julian Day, CDG
One Battle After Another – Colleen Atwood, CDG – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
The Gilded Age – “Marriage Is a Gamble” – Kasia Walicka Maimone
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
Andor – “Harvest” – Michael Wilkinson, CDG – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 (tie)
Someday by Spike Jonze: AirPods 4 – Kym Barrett, CDG
Dandyland Episode 10 – Rafaella Rabinovich – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Excellence in Costume Illustration
On Swift Horses – Eduardo Lucero, CDG Illustrator
Palm Royale – Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator
Sinners – Felipe Sanchez, CDG Illustrator – WINNER
Weapons – Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator
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