Let the guild awards commence! The Costume Designers Guild of America announced the nominees for the 28th CDG Awards, and there were, sadly, few surprises. On the film side, “Hedda,” “Frankenstein,” “Bugonia,” “Hamnet,” “Sinners,” and last year’s Oscar winner, Paul Tazewell for “Wicked for Good,” were nominated across three genre categories. The television nominees rewarded all four 2025 costume design Emmy winners, including “Andor,” “The Studio,” “The Traitors,” and “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,” as well as “Murderbot,” “Palm Royale,” and “Wednesday,” among others.
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Additional notable nominees across all nine categories include Colleen Atwood’s costumes for Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” music video, Katja Cahill’s creations for the NBC special “Wicked: One Wonderful Night,” “Black Mirror’s” “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” Deborah L. Scott’s work for “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” and Julian Day’s contemporary designs for “F1: The Movie.”
The 28th CDG Awards will be handed out on Thursday, February 12, at The Ebell in Los Angeles. Honorary awards will be revealed in the weeks to come.
This year’s nominees are as follows:
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Bugonia, Jennifer Johnson
F1 The Movie, Julian Day
One Battle After Another, Colleen Atwood
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Jenny Eagan
Weapons, Trish Summerville
Excellence in Period Film
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Anna Mary Scott Robbins
Frankenstein, Kate Hawley
Hamnet, Malgosia Turzanska
Hedda, Lindsay Pugh
Sinners, Ruth E. Carter
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Avatar: Fire and Ash, Deborah L. Scott
How To Train Your Dragon, Lindsay Pugh
Thunderbolts*, Sanja Milkovic Hays
Tron: Ares, Christine Bieselin Clark & Alix Friedberg
Wicked: For Good, Paul Tazewell
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Emily in Paris, “Veni, Vidi, Venezia,” Marylin Fitoussi
Hacks, “Heaven,” Kathleen Felix-Hager
The Righteous Gemstones, “You Hurled Me Into the Depths, Into the Very Heart of the Seas,” Christina Flannery
The Studio, “CinemaCon,” Kameron Lennox
Wednesday, “Woe Me the Money,” Colleen Atwood & Mark Sutherland
Excellence in Period Television
1923, “A Dream and a Memory,” Janie Bryant & Gaby Acosta
Chief of War, “City of Flowers,” Caroline Eselin-Schaefer
House of Guinness, “Episode 4,” Edward K. Gibbon
Palm Royale, “Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle,” Alix Friedberg & Leigh Bell
The Gilded Age, “Marriage Is a Gamble,” Kasia Walicka Maim
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
Andor, “Harvest,” Michael Wilkinson
Black Mirror, “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” Matthew Price
Murderbot, “FreeCommerce,” Carrie Grace & Laura Jean Shannon
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 & Daniela Gschwendtner
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special, Tom Broecker, Cristina Natividad, & Ashley Dudek
The Masked Singer, “The Lucky 6: Merging of the Masks,” Steven Norman Lee & Luke D’Alessandro
The Traitors, “Til Death Us Do Part,” Sam Spector & Rikki Finlay
Wicked: One Wonderful Night, Katja Cahill
Excellence in Short Form Design
Someday, by Spike Jonze: AirPods 4, Kym Barrett
Dandyland: Episode 10, Rafaella Rabinovich
Lady Gaga: The Dead Dance (music video), Colleen Atwood
Batman vs. Bateman: State Farm, Anette Cseri
Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings, Super Bowl, Michelle Martini
Excellence in Costume Illustration
On Swift Horses, Eduardo Lucero, illustrator
Palm Royale, Oksana Nedavniaya, illustrator
Sinners, Felipe Sanchez, illustrator
Weapons, Oksana Nedavniaya, illustrator
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Editor-at-Large Gregory Ellwood is one of the entertainment industry's most respected journalists and critics. Based in Los Angeles, he's the only current awards expert who previously worked on Oscar campaigns at a major movie studio. Over the years, he has written for the LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vox, among others. He also co-founded the entertainment news site HitFix, which spawned a legion of influential Emmy and WGA Award-winning alumni.
