Guys! It’s finally Crafty’s time—the first of the guild award nominations just dropped, and lucky us, it’s the Costume Designers Guild Awards! The CDGA covers a wide swath with its nine categories (crucially, understanding the difference between period and contemporary and fantasy/sci-fi), so there’s a huge range of nominees. And delightfully, many Crafty alums made the cut, from Kathleen Felix-Hager’s gorgeous work on the Season 4 finale of Hacks to Matthew Price’s work on USS Callister: Into Infinity.
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The 28th annual CDGA ceremony will be held at The Ebell on February 12, 2026. (Hopefully I’ll get to go to this one.) See below for the full list of nominees, and look for many, many more stories coming soon.
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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