Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominations: ‘Wicked: For Good’, ‘Sinners’, ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ In Film Hunt

EXCLUSIVE: The Costume Designers Guild on Friday dressed up the nominations for its 28th CDGAs, with titles on the movie side ranging from such big hits as Wicked: For Good, Sinners, One Battle After Another, Weapons and F1 to specialty fare including Hamnet, Hedda and Bugonia. Also in the mix are the likes of Frankenstein, Tron: Ares, the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash and others.

Among the TV nominees are 2025 Primetime Emmy winners Andor, The Studio, Hacks, SNL50: The Anniversary Special and The Traitors. Small-screen nominations also went to Wednesday, 1923, The Masked Singer, The Gilded Age and others. The only double nominees this year are Warner Bros’ Sinners and Weapons, along with Apple TV’s Palm Royale. All three scored noms for Costume Illustration along with their respective film and TV categories. See the full list below.

The CDG Awards nominates films in three categories — Contemporary, Period and Sci-Fi/Fantasy — along with four TV categories and one category apiece in Short Form Design and Costume Illustration.

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Nosferatu, Wicked and Conclave took the top film prizes at the 27th CDGA back in February. Since the guild launched its awards show in 1999, the Academy Award for Costume Design has gone to a period film every year but four, including last year’s Wicked, Mad Max: Fury Road (2016), Black Panther (2019) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2023). Paul Tazewell snagged the Oscar for Wicked in March after winning the CDG prize.

Shōgun, Hacks and Dune: Prophecy led the 2025 TV winners.

The 2026 winners will be feted at the annual CDG Awards ceremony on Thursday, February 12, at The Ebell of Los Angeles. The guild will reveals its Hall of Famers and career award recipients in the coming weeks.

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Here are the nominees for the 28th CDGA:

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 Maimone

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