See All the 2026 Costume Designers Guild Award Winners

On February 12, the Costume Designers Guild Awards held its 28th annual award ceremony at the Ebell of Los Angeles. In keeping with last year's format, the award ceremony was divided into nine categories, separated by genre: Contemporary, Period, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. This year’s list of winners included a diverse range of styles, spanning from Paul Thomas Anderson's dazzling action drama "One Battle After Another," "Frankenstein, opens in new tab," and "Wicked: For Good, opens in new tab." On the television front, Alix Friedberg and Leigh Bell received recognition for their period costumes on episode five of “Palm Royale,” and Kameron Lennox won for contemporary, mid-century outfits on episode nine of “The Studio.”

Check out the full list of winners from the 28th annual CDG Awards below:

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, opens in new tab
• "Weapons" – Trish Summerville

Excellence in Period Film

• "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" – Anna Mary Scott Robbins
• "Frankenstein" – Kate Hawley
• "Hamnet" – Malgosia Turzanska, opens in new tab
• "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 and 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 Period Television

• "1923" A Dream and a Memory – Janie Bryant, CDG & Gaby Acosta
• "Chief of War" City of Flowers – Caroline Eselin-Schaefer
• "House of Guinness" Episode 4 – Edward K. Gibbon, opens in new tab
• "Palm Royale" Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle – Alix Friedberg and Leigh Bell
• "The Gilded Age" Marriage Is a Gamble – Kasia Walicka Maimone

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television

• "Andor" Harvest – Michael Wilkinson
• "Black Mirror" USS Callister: Into Infinity – Matthew Price
• "Murderbot" FreeCommerce – Carrie Grace and 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, CDG & Daniela Gschwendtner
• "Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special" – Tom Broecke, Cristina Natividad, and Ashley Dudek
• "The Masked Singer – The Lucky 6: Merging of the Masks" – Steven Norman Lee and Luke D’Alessandro
• "The Traitors: Til Death Us Do Part" – Sam Spector and Rikki Finlay
• "Wicked: One Wonderful Night" – Katja Cahill

Excellence in Short Form Design

• "Someday, by Spike Jonze: AirPods 4" – Kym Barrett
• "Dandyland: Episode 10" – Rafaella Rabinovich
• "Lady Gaga: The Dead Dance" (Music Video) – Colleen Atwood
• "Batman vs. Bateman: State Farm®" – Anette Cseri
• "Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings" – Super Bowl – Michelle Martini

Excellence in Costume Illustration

• "On Swift Horses" – Eduardo Lucero
• "Palm Royale" – Oksana Nedavniaya
• "Sinners" – Felipe Sanchez
• "Weapons" – Oksana Nedavniaya