Several Oscar hopefuls got a major awards boost on Friday when the Costume Designers Guild Awards announced the nominations for its 28th annual honors.
Taking place Feb. 12, the 2026 CDG Awards will celebrate outstanding costume design across film, television, and short-form content. The gala will be held in Los Angeles at the Ebell.
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Four of Gold Derby’s five predicted nominees for the Best Costume Design Oscar received bids today: Frankenstein, Hamnet, and Sinners in Excellence in Period Film, and Wicked: For Good in Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film. Our other forecasted Oscar contender, The Testament of Ann Lee, wasn’t recognized by the guild.
Last year’s major CDG Awards winners were Conclave (contemporary), Nosferatu (period), and Wicked (sci-fi/fantasy), and all three went on to nab Oscar bids. Wicked wound up winning the Academy Award for Paul Tazewell, who made history as the first Black man to claim his category.
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2026 Costume Designers Guild Awards in all nine categories:
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Bugonia, Jennifer Johnson
F1, 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 Period Television
1923 (“A Dream and a Memory”), Janie Bryant & Gaby Acosta
Chief of War (“City of Flowers”), Caroline Eselin-Schaefer
House of Guinness (“Episode 4”), Edward K. Gibbon
Palm Royale (“Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle”), Alix Friedberg & 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 & 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 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
The Costume Designers Guild will announce the host, presenters, and other honorees at a later date.
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