The 28th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony is under way at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, and Deadline is updating with the winners as they are announced. See the list below.
The CDGAs nominate 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. Daytime Emmy-winning The Young and the Restless actor Courtney Hope is hosting the ceremony.
Apple TV’s Palm Royale took the first television prize of the night, winning for Excellence in Period Television.
The ceremony’s first category resulted in a tie, with Dandyland Episode 10 and the Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings Super Bowl commercial sharing the Short form Design prize.
The guild is presenting a number of special honors tonight. One Battle After Another Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor accepted the guild’s Vanguard Spotlight Award. Avatar and Titanic kingpin James Cameron is set for the Distinguished Collaborator Award, and Song Sung Blue star Kate Hudson will receive the Spotlight Award. The Career Achievement Award will be presented to multiple-Emmy-nominated costume designer Michelle Cole.
Nosferatu, Wicked and Conclave took the top film prizes at last year’s 27th CDGA. 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).
Here are the winners at the 2026 CDGA, followed by the remaining nominees:
Winners
Excellence in Period Television
Palm Royale, “Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle,” Alix Friedberg & Leigh Bell
Excellence in Short Form Design
(TIE)
Dandyland: Episode 10, Rafaella Rabinovich
Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings, Super Bowl, Michelle Martini
Nominees
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 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 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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