Honorees
Career Achievement – Michael Kaplan
Spotlight – Charlize Theron
Distinguished Collaborator – Adam McKay
Distinguished Service – Mary Ellen Fields
Excellence in Contemporary Film
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Arjun Bhasin
Hustlers – Mitchell Travers
Knives Out – Jenny Eagan
The Laundromat – Ellen Mirojnick
Queen & Slim – Shiona Turini
Excellence in Period Film
Dolemite is My Name – Ruth E. Carter
Downton Abbey – Anna Mary Scott Robbins
Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips
Rocketman – Julian Day
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
Aladdin – Michael Wilkinson
Avengers: Endgame – Judianna Makovsky
Captain Marvel – Sanja M. Hays
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Ellen Mirojnick
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Michael Kaplan
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Big Little Lies: #204, “She Knows” – Alix Friedberg
Fleabag: #201, “2.1” – Ray Holman
Killing Eve: #204, “Desperate Times” – Charlotte Mitchell
Russian Doll: #105, “Superiority Complex” – Jennifer Rogien
Schitt’s Creek: #504, “The Dress” – Debra Hanson
Excellence in Period Television
Chernobyl: #102, “Please Remain Calm” – Odile Dicks-Mireaux
The Crown: #310, “Cri De Coeur” – Amy Roberts
Fosse/Verdon: #101, “Life is a Cabaret” – Melissa Toth & Joseph La Corte
GLOW: #305, “Freaky Tuesday” – Beth Morgan
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: #305, “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” – Donna Zakowska
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
Carnival Row: #102, “Aisling” – Joanna Eatwell
Game of Thrones: #806, “The Iron Throne” – Michele Clapton
The Handmaid’s Tale: #306, “Household” – Natalie Bronfman
A Series of Unfortunate Events: #306, “Penultimate Peril: Part 2” – Cynthia Summers
Watchmen: #101, “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice” – Sharen Davis
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Dancing with the Stars: #2802, “First Elimination” – Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee
The Late Late Show with James Corden: #4123, “Crosswalk the Musical: Aladdin” – Lauren Shapiro
The Masked Singer: #213, “Season Finale: And the Winner Takes It All and Takes It Off” – Marina Toybina
RuPaul’s Drag Race: #1101, “Whatcha Unpackin?” – Zaldy for RuPaul
Saturday Night Live: #4416, “Sandra Oh / Tame Impala” – Tom Broecker & Eric Justian
Excellence in Short Form Design
Katy Perry: “Small Talk”, music video – Phoenix Mellow
Kohler Verdera Voice Smart Mirror: “Mirror, Mirror”, commercial – Ami Goodheart
Lil Nas X: “Old Town Road”, music video – Catherine Hahn
Madonna: “God Control”, music video – B. Åkerlund
United Airlines: “Star Wars Wing Walker”, commercial – Christopher Lawrence
Don’t rule out Little Women for the Oscar win here. It is true that no movie has won the Costumes Oscar without a previous CDG nom since 2001. At the same time, ever since then there has never been a year with only two CDG nominated films being nominated at the Oscars. I guess we can rule out The Irishman and Joker for that Oscar. But Little Women could give OUATIH and Jojo a run for its money.
Weird thing that I just noticed: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, despite being considered one of the frontrunners, hasn’t won a single award for costume design from what I could find. Not even at any critics’ groups
I think that “Little Women” will win, since the Academy is often favoring costumes from the 19th century (or earlier) over more contemporary work.
I think it’s only 2 in the previous decade (Anna Karenina and The Young Victoria)
…which makes predicting this category kinda tricky, I guess! 🙂
But apart of a recent restraint, as you correctly pointed out, I think that LW´s costume are clearly the stand-out among those nominees. Makes most sense to me to stay with my pick.
The costume design in OUATIH is really not the “showy” designs the usually win awards. Though its costumes help made the characters and sort of perfectly tell the story. Also there really ain’t much coatume design categories in critics precursors. I think we only have two, CDG and BAFTAs.
Yep, but I still think it’s the frontrunner in Production Design, for which it won more than 10 awards until now. I think BAFTA will decide Costumes, but I guess Jojo has the edge.
May this be the start of Schitt’s Creek’s awards dominance and may it win Best Comedy Series, Comedy Actress and Comedy Supporting Actor AT LEAST at this year’s Emmys for its final season.
You may be singing a different time come tomorrow night. Broadcast TV’s best series will have a significant amount of say over any pretenders like Schitts.
No one cares about broadcast.
Eh. I actually thought that Jojo Rabbit’s costumes were the least impressive of it’s Editing/Cinematography/Production Design/Score technical work. Some of the costumes are quite good, but upon looking at them closely, I felt there was much better work this year in period costuming; and in general.
I wonder if Jojo’s ACE win, win HERE, surprisingly strong showing at BAFTA, and strong showing with AMPAS with 6 noms (probably just missed Directing and Score) ……. DOES make it a strong contender for many 2s and 3s on a preferential ballot.
Hmm.
better Jojo Costume win than Lil Wamen. There’s nothing more boring than another pettycoat drama winning Costume.
I honestly doubt it. Insiders from the Academy (voting members) assure that the Jewish members of the branches hate the film. Really hate the film. And to be honest,the film was not nominated for Bafta Best Picture. Many Academy Members report that the film glamourizes Hitler, portraying him as a good character. Costume Desing branch at the Academy is only 156 people (among 9,000 members).
That is ridiculous. Hitler is portrayed as a deluded moron.
yeah never understood how anyone could see that parody as glamour or good character. not to mention that he’s fragment of Jojo’s imagination, not even a real deal.
I read that ‘report” aka Anonymous Voter claims to have spoken with all AMPAS members. If Jojo isn’t playing well then how the heck is winning so much?
Winning so much? You mean: Not nominated for BAFTA Best Picture; Not nominated for Directing Oscar? It won Costume Designers Guild (which are 156 members of the Academy) and won Editing Guild (shared with Parasite). It lost SAG, DGA, PGA (PGA in a preferential ballot system). In a preferential ballot system, if you hate a film, you just have to place it 9th on the ballot, then, you kill its chances. And from that report, Jewish Members really hate the film and some even refuse to watch. If 100 or 200 of them place the film at 9th, it has no chance of winning.
wins are wins. I get what you are saying but it seems liked enough for nominations and even some wins.
I think it’s more Once losing than Jojo winning… It’s not beaten any other major contender at any guild so far, to my knowledge.
very true
That’s funny, because most Jewish people I’ve spoken to have loved the film (in fact, it was featured in our local Jewish Film Festival)… most people I’ve talked to get that the film ridicules Hitler and everything he stands for, and that the film’s ultimate message is about rejecting hate (I find it really adorable that the cure for a little boy’s tendencies toward fascism is his first crush)…
Hmm. Maybe you’re on to something. Nahhh. Everyone knows that Irishman and Hollywood are the two greatest films of the decade. Pundits and critics told us so!
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What if JoJo Rabbit is the feel good/humanity movie and wins Picture and Adapted Screenplay. Parasite wins Original and 1917 wins director.
Honestly doubt it. Insiders from the Academy (voting members) assure that the Jewish members of the branches hate the film. Really hate the film. And to be honest,the film was not nominated for Bafta Best Picture. Many Academy Members report that the film glamourizes Hitler, portraying him as a good character.
Wouldn’t it have won something by now though? Even Green Book had won something (hadn’t it) making it not a total surprise as Best Picture winner. Jojo Rabbit just doesn’t feel like a Green Book to me this year, though I liked it much more.
I think that Gerwig is locked for Adapted but Jojo could win Editing which is the same thing, a path to Picture win. Then watch it get torn to pieces for upsetting Parasite lol
> Then watch it get torn to pieces for upsetting Parasite lol
Which, let’s face it, doesn’t look very Aryan.
care to elaborate? I’m too slow today to get the reference.
It’s a line from the film, when Yorki the fat kid remarks on the Japanese being the only ally the Nazis have left.
sorry, forgot about it. Thanks.
It most certainly isn’t a path. Best Picture always comes with a Screenplay or a Director win. Editing only isn’t a path. I think we might need to go back to Grand Hotel to find a winner without either Scr or Dir, but even if not quite that far, I don’t think it happened in a long long time.
The previous case in fact is Chicago, then Gladiator, then All the King’s Men. But as Jojo Rabbit doesn’t seem like that likely an acting winner either, the previous example for no directing/writing/acting wins would be Rebecca
That’s surprisingly recent, but still not an everyday occurence.
so LW wins? Yikes.:)
We ain’t that lucky.
I would like to note that in the last 7 years I’ve done my preferential simulation the only two times a movie that didn’t have crippling stats issues that could not be overcome won said simulation it also won the Oscar. (This, in addition to the stat about a movie finishing in second place or a tie for second never winning at the Oscars, either.) Once, in a big upset, and with only a WGA win (and a SAG acting win) to show for it, guilds-wise – Moonlight. (The other one being Birdman.) Remember Sasha’s Twitter polls and how they helped her predict Spotlight and Moonlight? (There, too, I think the next two years she did it movies won that had no real shot at the Oscars – Call Me By Your Name and I’m not sure about last year. Was it Roma or The Favourite leading the Twitter polls?) Here is, again, the history of my simulation’s results (noting that The Social Network, the first year I did it, is an exception to this rule):
2011 The Social Network —– details not saved (second place was Black Swan, I believe)
2012 – not held –
2013 Zero Dark Thirty ——— 37-24 over Silver Linings Playbook
2014 Her ————————– 33-33 tied with Gravity, won 19-18 on total first place votes
2015 Birdman ——————– 62-61 over Boyhood
2016 Mad Max: Fury Road — 51-37 over The Revenant
2017 Moonlight —————— 41-32 over La La Land
2018 Phantom Thread ——— 39-33 over Call Me By Your Name
2019 The Favourite ————- 45-30 over Roma
2020 Parasite ——————- 46-14 over The Irishman
What a weird year for the Costume Design Oscar, no? When did we last have three Oscar nominees (The Irishman, Joker, Little Women) in the category without a previous CDG nom? I am guessing not a single time since CDG has three separate categories.
I mean, I loved The Irishman, but a nomination for its costumes, really? Over Rocketman? It just seems like people put down Joker and The Irishman in random categories because they liked the films overall.
I’m okay with The Irishman, since it’s at least a period film. But the Joker nomination had no sense.
Joker is also a period film technically (it’s set in the 80’s)…
Its Mak Up nom makes no sense to be either. It is just a clown-painted face…
But it’s an iconic look, and all those splashes of blood that land on his face that change his look also count as makeup…
Also, the Make Up category also includes Hairstyling.
Joker is also a period film technically (it’s set in the 80’s)…
Sandy Powell has gone on record as saying that designing costumes for more contemporary movies is more difficult than those for period pieces, but they never get as much recognition because the costume design is not as obvious. So costume designers might see more in the Joker costumes than an average moviegoer would.
Maybe, but then the CDG members, all actual costume designers as well, have not seen those things…
Sure, but the costume designers who nominate the Oscars aren’t the exact same group as the guild, just like any other guild where the nominations don’t exactly match up with the Oscars. The Academy branches clearly liked Joker a lot more than some of the guilds (ex. DGA, CDG). I’m just saying that there’s a lot more to the art of costume design than a lot of us are really in a position to understand, which might help to make sense of the periodic head scratcher. (Remember when “12 Monkeys” was nominated?)
I get it. It just does not align with how they have voted for many years.
A stat working against Parasite which isn’t tremendously prohibitive, but is pretty hard to break, it seems: only three movies have won Best Picture despite having fewer or the same number of nominations as at least seven other films in the Oscar nominations rankings list: Grand Hotel, The Greatest Show on Earth and Green Book. The next-highest such number for a Best Picture winner is five (movies tied with or ahead of them in the nominations count), which has happened six (additional) times or so, by my count.
Oh look, another guild win for JoJo!
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Great scene by Scarlett Johansson.She had such a limited role and played it to perfection.
her costume is perfect too!
Exactly. I think Jojo is a not-so-secret contender. Could very well be in 4th place or even higher than we imagine when factoring in the preferential ballot.
So glad Jojo Rabbit prevailed here. I predict it could take Production Design too. Those saying Little Women are name checking. There is nothing remotely unique or amazing about the costumes; we’ve seen women in period gowns forever. Jojo focuses on much more flare, with vibrant colors and the designs are more interesting.
As for the screenplay Oscar, again I’ve said before it’s very hard to win 3 original screenplay awards and Tarantino seems vulnerable for a Parasite loss. I still have the Django Unchained winner in my predictions, but they’re slowing to a swap for Bong Joon Ho.
hear hear! I hope LW loses because enough with pettycoat wins already. I shit a lot on BP as a Picture contender but Costume win was deserved and one of best ever.
“petticoat” Google is really easy to use, fyi.
noted
Since Greta Gerwig will win Adapted, I hope Jojo wins its Oscar here.
I am not so sure she will win. I have the feeling that Little Women may be hotter in the race right now but Jojo has a better shot at actually winning Picture in a preferential ballot, so it is bound to win something else, even if it loses Picture, and the ones that make more sense are Costume and Adapted, and to a minor extent, an upset by Johansson on Supporting Actress.
Agreed. Plus personally I felt Gerwig’s script was not strong. Out of chronological order for starters, and the lines felt rushed and contrived. Jojo Rabbit is much wittier. There isn’t as much pressure either on voters to check off what they’re being told to by precursors and media like the acting winners, so I am guessing Watkins wins.
I hope Johansson can upset too.
So interesting stat: going back to 2005 (since cdg split fantasy and period film) the Oscar Winner has been a CDG nominee every year. Usually from Period. This year only 2 of the Oscar nominees are CDG nominees so chances are the Oscar goes to Jojo Rabbit or Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. A winner here is more often than not the Oscar Winner but lots of times they haven’t been so the actual winner here is much less useful.
Also even with less categories pre 2005 you have to go back to 2001 to find a year when the Oscar Winner wasn’t nominated
One could argue, though, that since they announced their nominations quite early in December, meaning that they probably had the voting deadline in late November or the first of December, they simply might not have seen Little Women in time.
Yeah that is true but this year is a short season in general with everything being shorter so I feel like either we throw out stats in general this year or we do what we can. I do agree all stats are less certain this year though so yeah Little Women could win.
I am allowed to say OUATIH is dead now?
Well it’s third, but as good as dead.
Anyone on that train should hop off.
I’m pretty sure if only Little Women screen earlier for the guild then it would have made it here and could win Period easily. Guessing it will take the Oscars or if the stat that the eventual Oscar winner should come from the nominees then I hope its OUATIH over Jojo Rabbit.
LITTLE WOMEN started screening for guilds on October 24th, more than a month before the voting for nominations started.
LW costumes are boring been there done that. Shame they were nominated by default over something more creative.
Nah, the details in those costumes designed by Durran were character defining as they were period appropriate yet modern.
If corseted costumes are boring to you then let’s all hope Powell gets her deserved 4th Oscar for The Irishman’s perfect tailoring and subdued lines.
So why WASN’T Little Women even nominated? Even if you think Jojo or Dolemite is better, it’s a glaring omission. Now with Dolemite out and Jojo’s costumes not ALL being that flashy or creative, how can you not look at Little Women as at least the traditional frontrunner? The shutout here is almost less offensive than had it lost to Jojo Rabbit. But I am torn because the LW costumes define the characters but admittedly aren’t the most exciting period dresses ever whereas some of the Jojo clothes really are quite creative.