FINAL 2025 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN and PRODUCTION DESIGN

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With its total domination in both Costume Design and Production Design precursors, the sheer volume and size of the work by Paul Tazewell, Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales for Wicked should be able to conclude its sweep with easy wins here. If/when he wins, Tazewell will be the first African American male to win for costume design.

While there is small window for Conclave to spoil – it also earned Art Directors Guild and Set Decorators Society wins, albeit in different categories than Wicked – it’s really more of a crack offering a gentle breeze. It’s still wild to think that The Brutalist, a film about architecture and design, feels like a distant contender here but here we are. Just as with the PD precursors, Conclave and Nosferatu also won Costume Designers Guild awards, again in different categories from each other and Wicked.

Here are my final Oscar winner predictions in Costume Design and Production Design for the the 97th Academy Awards.

COSTUME DESIGN

1. Wicked Part I (Universal Pictures)
Paul Tazewell
BAFTA, CCA, CDG
2. Conclave (Focus Features)
Lisy Christi
BAFTA, CCA, CDG
3. Nosferatu (Focus Features)
Linda Muir
BAFTA, CCA, CDG
4. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
Arianne Phillips
BAFTA
5. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
CCA, CDG

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Wicked Part I (Universal Pictures)
Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA
2. Conclave (Focus Features)
Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter
ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA
3. The Brutalist (A24)
Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia
ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA
4. Nosferatu (Focus Features)
Production Design: Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová
ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA
5. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros)
Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
ADG, BAFTA, CCA, SDSA
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.

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