Frankenstein, Wicked: For Good and One Battle After Another took the top film prizes at the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out Thursday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full winners list below.
The first movie award of the night went to Kate Hawley of Netflix’s Frankenstein for Excellence in Period Film. She’s also an Oscar nominee, and 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.
It was a repeat of sorts for Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy category as Paul Tazewell won for Universal’s Wicked: For Good, following up on last year’s CDGA triumph for the first part, Wicked. That was one of the quartet of non-period movies to take the Costume Design Oscar since the CDGAs began, along with Mad Max: Fury Road (2016), Black Panther (2019) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2023).
Colleen Atwood took the Contemporary Film award for Warner Bros’ awards-season juggernaut One Battle After Another. She is a four-time Oscar winner for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2017, Alice in Wonderland (2011), Memoirs of a Geisha (2006) and Chicago (2003). Atwood also has eight other Academy Award noms for Best Costume Design in the past 30 years.
But Tazewell’s Wicked: For Good and Atwood’s One Battle After Another missed the cut for this year’s Academy Award noms. The others vying for the Costume Design Oscar next month are Avatar: Fire and Ash (Deborah L. Scott), Hamnet (Malgosia Turzanska), Marty Supreme (Miyako Bellizzi) and Sinners (Ruth E. Carter).
Nosferatu and Conclave took the respective Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Contemporary film prizes at last year’s 27th CDGA.
Felipe Sanchez won the Excellence in Costume Illustration award for Warner Bros’ smash Sinners, which leads the Academy Awards nominations with a record 16.
Apple TV was a double winner at the CDGA as Kameron Lennox won Excellence in Contemporary Television for The Studio and Alix Friedberg & Leigh Bell took the Period Television prize for Palm Royale.
Tom Broecker, Cristina Natividad, & Ashley Dudek won the Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television award for NBC’s Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special. 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.
Daytime Emmy-winning The Young and the Restless actor Courtney Hope hosted the ceremony, and the guild presented a number of special honors Thursday night. Avatar and Titanic kingpin James Cameron is set for the Distinguished Collaborator Award, and Song Sung Blue star Kate Hudson received the Spotlight Award. One Battle After Another Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor accepted the guild’s Vanguard Spotlight Award, and the Career Achievement Award was presented to multiple-Emmy-nominated costume designer Michelle Cole.
Here are the winners at the 2026 CDGA:
Excellence in Contemporary Film
One Battle After Another, Colleen Atwood
Excellence in Contemporary Television
The Studio, “CinemaCon,” Kameron Lennox
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special, Tom Broecker, Cristina Natividad, & Ashley Dudek
Excellence in Costume Illustration
Sinners, Felipe Sanchez, illustrator
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Wicked: For Good, Paul Tazewell
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
Andor, “Harvest,” Michael Wilkinson
Excellence in Period Film
Frankenstein, Kate Hawley
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