Costume Designers Guild Fits Francine Jamison-Tanchuck For Career Honor

Erik Pedersen
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Francine Jamison-Tanchuck has been working on movie and TV costumes for more than 45 years, and now she is being fitted for a lifetime honor.

The Costume Designers Guild said today that she will receive its 2024 Career Achievement Award, which recognizes an individual whose career in costume design has left an indelible mark on film and television.

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Jamison-Tanchuck already had been working in TV and film costuming for more than a decade when she made her costume designer feature debut with the 1989 Civil War epic Glory — for which Denzel Washington won his first Oscar — and has amassed more than three dozen credits since. She is in the awards-season hunt this year for The Color Purple and also worked on such recent pics as One Night in Miami, They Cloned Tyrone and Emancipation. Along the way, she worked on such pics as Barely Lethal, This Christmas, Big Momma’s House, Courage Under Fire, Boomerang and White Men Can’t Jump and HBO’s miniseries The Wire.

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She started as a costumer on the 1970s NBC series Serpico and went on to work on pics including Robert Redford’s The Electric Horseman, Joel Schumacher’s St. Elmo’s Fire, Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer The Running Man and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple and John Landis’ Eddie Murphy pic Coming to America before moving to costume designer on Glory.

“Try not to allow someone’s negative thoughts or comments keep you from moving forward creatively,” she said in a statement. “You can be nervous, but don’t be afraid to risk taking the first steps even if you can’t completely see the staircase.”

Jamison-Tanchuck will be honored during the guild’s 26th annual CDGA ceremony on February 21 at at NeueHouse Hollywood. The 1,200-member CDG, IATSE local 892, revealed its 2024 nominees last week.

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