Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film explained

The Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film is one of the annual awards given by the Costume Designers Guild. The 1st Costume Designers Guild Awards in 1998 presented a combined award to honor achievements in film costume design without any genre distinction; it was split into Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film and Excellence in Contemporary Film the following ceremony. The former award was given out from 1999 until 2004 to also include fantasy films. Since 2005, two separate categories for Excellence in Period Film and Excellence in Fantasy Film have been established, with each genre receiving its own award.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Excellence in Film

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
1998	Pleasantville	Judianna Makovsky
	Beloved
	The Man in the Iron Mask	James Acheson
	The Mask of Zorro	Graciela Mazón
	The Truman Show	Marilyn Matthews

Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Colleen Atwood
		Deena Appel
	The Matrix	Kym Barrett
	The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
2000	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Rita Ryack
	Almost Famous	Betsy Heimann
	Chocolat	Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
	Quills
2001	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Judianna Makovsky
	Blow	Mark Bridges
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Arianne Phillips
	Planet of the Apes	Colleen Atwood
2002	Chicago	Colleen Atwood
	Frida
		Ngila Dickson
	Road to Perdition	Albert Wolsky
2003		Ngila Dickson
	The Last Samurai
		Penny Rose
	Seabiscuit
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Colleen Atwood
	The Aviator
	De-Lovely	Janty Yates
	The Phantom of the Opera	Alexandra Byrne
	Ray

Excellence in Period Film

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Colleen Atwood
	Capote	Kasia Walicka-Maimone
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Louise Frogley
	Rent	Aggie Guerard Rodgers
	Walk the Line
	Curse of the Golden Flower	Yee Chung-man
	Dreamgirls
	The Illusionist	Ngila Dickson
	Marie Antoinette
		Penny Rose
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Colleen Atwood
	3:10 to Yuma	Arianne Phillips
	Atonement
	La Vie en Rose
	The Duchess	Michael O'Connor
	Changeling	Deborah Hopper
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Milk
	Revolutionary Road
	The Young Victoria	Sandy Powell
	Coco Before Chanel
	Julie & Julia	Ann Roth
	Nine
	Sherlock Holmes	Jenny Beavan

2010s

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
	The King's Speech	Jenny Beavan
	The Fighter	Mark Bridges
	True Grit
2011	W.E.	Arianne Phillips
	The Artist
	The Help	Sharen Davis
	Hugo
	Jane Eyre
2012	Anna Karenina	Jacqueline Durran
	Argo	Jacqueline West
	Les Misérables
	Lincoln
	Moonrise Kingdom	Kasia Walicka-Maimone
2013 [1]	12 Years a Slave	Patricia Norris
	American Hustle
	Dallas Buyers Club	Kurt & Bart
	The Great Gatsby
	Saving Mr. Banks	Daniel Orlandi
2014 [2]	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Milena Canonero
	The Imitation Game	Sammy Sheldon Differ
	Inherent Vice
	Selma	Ruth E. Carter
	The Theory of Everything	Steven Noble
2015 [3]	The Danish Girl	Paco Delgado
	Brooklyn	Odile Dicks-Mireaux
	Carol
	Crimson Peak	Kate Hawley
	Trumbo	Daniel Orlandi
2016 [4]	Hidden Figures	Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
	The Dressmaker	Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson
	Florence Foster Jenkins
	Hail, Caesar!	Mary Zophres
	Jackie
2017 [5]	The Shape of Water	Luis Sequeira
	Dunkirk	Jeffrey Kurland
	The Greatest Showman	Ellen Mirojnick
	Murder on the Orient Express	Alexandra Byrne
	Phantom Thread
2018 [6]	The Favourite	Sandy Powell
	BlacKkKlansman	Marci Rodgers
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Julian Day
	Mary Poppins Returns
	Mary Queen of Scots
2019 [7]	Jojo Rabbit	Mayes C. Rubeo
	Dolemite Is My Name	Ruth E. Carter
	Downton Abbey	Anna Mary Scott Robbins
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Rocketman	Julian Day

2020s

Year	Film	Costume Designer(s)
2020 [8]	Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom	Ann Roth
	Emma.
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Charlese Antoinette Jones
	Mank
	One Night in Miami...	Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
2021 [9]	Cruella	Jenny Beavan
	Cyrano	Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
	House of Gucci	Janty Yates
	Nightmare Alley	Luis Sequeira
	West Side Story	Paul Tazewell
2022 [10]	Elvis	Catherine Martin
	Babylon	Mary Zophres
	Don't Worry Darling	Arianne Phillips
	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Jenny Beavan
	The Woman King	Gersha Phillips
2023 [11] [12]	Poor Things	Holly Waddington
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Jacqueline West
	Maestro	Mark Bridges
	Napoleon	Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
	Oppenheimer	Ellen Mirojnick

Designers with multiple wins

This total includes awards for Excellence in Film and Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film.

5 wins

• Colleen Atwood

2 wins

• Jenny Beavan
• Judianna Makovsky
• Sandy Powell

Designers with multiple nominations

This total includes nominations for Excellence in Film and Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film.

8 nominations

• Colleen Atwood

6 nominations

• Mark Bridges
• Arianne Phillips
• Sandy Powell

5 nominations

• Alexandra Byrne

4 nominations

• Jenny Beavan
• Ngila Dickson
• Jacqueline West

3 nominations

• Sharen Davis
• Jacqueline Durran
• Judianna Makovsky
• Ann Roth
• Janty Yates
• Mary Zophres

2 nominations

• Milena Canonero
  • Ruth E. Carter Julian Day
  • Paco Delgado Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
• Catherine Martin
  • Ellen Mirojnick Michael O'Connor
• Daniel Orlandi
• Penny Rose
• Luis Sequeira
• Kasia Walicka-Maimone
• Albert Wolsky

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nominees for the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards Announced. 17 January 2017.
2. Web site: Nominees for the 17th Costume Designers Guild Awards Announced. 17 January 2017.
3. Web site: Nominees for the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards Announced. 17 January 2017.
4. Web site: Nominees for the 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards Announced. 17 January 2017.
5. Web site: Honorees for the 20th CDGA Announced. 10 January 2018.
6. Web site: Honorees for the 21st CDGA Announced. 9 January 2019.
7. Web site: Costume Designers Guild Awards: ‘Hustlers,’ ‘Rocketman’ Among Nominees . Weinberg . Lindsay . . December 10, 2019 . December 10, 2019 .
8. Web site: Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominations: ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Mank’, ‘Bridgerton’ & More . . Pederson . Erik . March 4, 2021. 2021-03-04 .
9. Web site: Costume Designers Guild Awards: ‘House of Gucci,’ ‘Dune,’ ‘Squid Game’ Among Nominees . Pener . Degen . . January 26, 2022 . January 26, 2022 .
10. Web site: ‘Tár, ‘Elvis,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Among Costume Designers Guild Nominations 2023 . Tangcay . Jazz . . January 12, 2023 . January 12, 2023 .
11. Web site: Costume Designers Guild Awards: ‘Barbie’, ‘Poor Things’ & ‘Saltburn’ Take Film Prizes – Winners List . Pedersen . Erik . . . February 21, 2024 . February 21, 2024 .
12. Web site: Costume Designers Guild Nominations: ‘Maestro,’ ‘Barbie’ Land Nods, ‘The Color Purple,’ ‘Wonka’ Snubbed . Tangcay . Jazz . . January 4, 2024 . January 4, 2024.