2023 Costume Designers Guild (CDG) awards: ‘Babylon,’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ among nominees

The Costume Designers Guild (CDG) has announced its 2023 nominations for costume design in film and television including  including Babylon, Elvis, TÁR, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hocus Pocus 2, Thor: Love and Thunder, Nope, Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking, Don’t Worry Darling, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and The Woman King.

For television, shows receiving nominations included House of the Dragon, The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Westworld, What We Do in the Shadows and The Witcher for Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Emily in Paris, Euphoria, Hacks, Wednesday and The White Lotus for Contemporary, Bridgerton, The Crown, The Gilded Age, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Pam & Tommy for Period, and Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Dancing with the Stars, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race and Saturday Night Live for Live Television.

Costume and set designer Deborah L. Scott, an Academy Award winner for Titanic, is set to receive the Career Achievement Award at the awards show. Scott, whose credits include Back to the Future, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Transformers, The Amazing Spiderman 2 and Avatar, also is nominated this year in the category of sci-fi/fantasy film for her work on Avatar: The Way of Water.

Costume designer Rachael M. Stanley, a three-time Emmy nominee (Sisters, Ally McBeal, Heartbeat), will receive the 2023 Distinguished Service Award, with the guild noting in a statement that she “has served as a member of the executive peer group for costumes designers and supervisors with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences” as well as serving as executive director of the Costume Designers Guild.

Winners will be announced at the guild’s 25th awards gala on February 27 at the Fairmont Century City. Here is the complete list of nominees.

FILM

Excellence in Period Film

Mary Zophres, Babylon
Arianne Phillips, Don’t Worry Darling
Catherine Martin, Elvis
Jenny Beavan, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Gersha Phillips, The Woman King

Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film

Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: The Way of Water
Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Salvador Perez, Hocus Pocus 2
Mayes C. Rubeo, Thor: Love and Thunder

Excellence in Contemporary Film

Jenny Eagan, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Alex Bovaird, Nope
Bina Daigeler, TÁR
Marlene Stewart, Top Gun: Maverick
Quita Alfred, Women Talking

Television

Excellence in Period Television
Sophie Canale, Bridgerton: “The Choice”
Amy Roberts, The Crown: “Ipatiev House”
Kasia Walicka-Maimone, The Gilded Age: “Let the Tournament Begin”
Donna Zakowska, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: “Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest”
Kameron Lennox, Pam & Tommy: “I Love You, Tommy”

Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television

Jany Temime, House of the Dragon: “The Heirs of the Dragon”
Kate Hawley, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: “A Shadow of the Past”
Debra Beebe, Westworld: “Generation Loss”
Laura Montgomery, What We Do in the Shadows: “The Wedding”
Lucinda Wright, The Witcher: Blood Origin: “Of Mages, Malice, and Monstrous Mayhem”

Excellence in Contemporary Television

Marylin Fitoussi, Emily in Paris: “What’s it All About…”
Heidi Bivens, Euphoria: “Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door”
Kathleen Felix-Hager, Hacks: “The Captain’s Wife”
Colleen Atwood & Mark Sutherland, Wednesday: “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe”
Alex Bovaird, The White Lotus: “In the Sandbox”

Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television

Marina Toybina, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee, Dancing with the Stars: “Halloween Night”
Carrie Cramer & Jason Rembert, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: “Girl Run That Sh*t Back”
Tony Iniguez, RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race: RuPaul-A-Palooza!
Tom Broecker, Ashley Dudek & Cristina Natividad, Saturday Night Live: “Miles Teller/Kendrick Lamar”

Excellence in Short Form Design

Melissa DesRosiers! Disney+ Has All the GOATs (Commercial)
Sarah Kinsumba, McDonald’s: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Commercial)
Shawna Trpcic (for Jason Momoa), Nike: Father Time (Commercial)
Dawn Ritz, Not Today Flu feat. Jason Alexander (Commercial)
Natasha Newman-Thomas, Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” (Music Video)

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