Costume Designers Guild Awards: Oscar rivals ‘Barbie’ and ‘Poor Things’ both win

Paul Sheehan
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“Peoor Things” got a big boost in its Oscar bid for Best Costume Design with a win for period pictures at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Feb. 21. It prevailed over three of its Oscar rivals, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Napoleon” and “Oppenheimer” plus “Maestro.”

The fifth Oscar nominee, “Barbie,” won the fantasy/sci-fi race. The other CDG winner was the contemporary film “Saltburn”

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In its 25-year history, the CDG has previewed only 12 of the Oscar winners for Best Costume Design: nine of these have been period pictures and three have been sci-fi or fantasy flicks. Of the last six Costume Designers Guild Awards winners three have gone on to repeat at the Academy Awards: “Cruella” in 2022, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” in 2021 and “Black Panther” in 2019.

Last year, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” pulled off an upset  in the fantasy/sci-fi race over eventual Oscar champ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” In 2020, the academy honored “Little Women,” which had been overlooked by the guild. In 2018, “The Shape of Water” won with the CDG while “Phantom Thread” prevailed at the Oscars. And in 2017, the academy went with the fantasy film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which had lost at the guild to the Oscar-snubbed “Doctor Strange.”

Best Contemporary Costumes
American Fiction – Rudy Mance
May December – April Napier
Nyad – Kelli Jones
Renfield – Lisa Lovaas
X – Saltburn – Sophie Canale

Best Period Costumes
Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West
Maestro – Mark Bridges
Napoleon – Janty Yates & Dave Crossman
Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick
X – Poor Things – Holly Waddington

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costumes
X – Barbie – Jacqueline Durran
Haunted Mansion – Jeffrey Kurland
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Trish Summerville
The Little Mermaid – Colleen Atwood & Christine Cantella
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Stephanie Porter

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