I, Tonya, The Shape of Water and Wonder Woman topped the feature film categories at the 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGA) ceremony held on Tuesday evening (2/20) in Beverly Hills.
Costume designer Jennifer Johnson won the CDGA honor for Excellence in Contemporary Film on the basis of I, Tonya, which beat out a field consisting of Get Out, Kingsman: the Golden Circle, Lady Bird, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Luis Sequeira’s work on The Shape of Water earned the award for a Period Film. Also nominated in this category were Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express, Phantom Thread, and The Greatest Showman.
And Lindy Hemming prevailed in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film category for Wonder Woman. The other nominees were Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner 2049, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Thor: Ragnarok.
TV winners were Ane Crabtree for The Handmaid’s Tale (Contemporary Television category), Jane Petrie for The Crown (Period Television), and Michele Clapton for Game of Thrones (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television).
Special honors
Maggie Schpak, expert jeweler/metalworker, received the Distinguished Service Award from Costume Designers Guild president Salvador Perez. The award honors someone whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of costume design.
Guillermo del Toro was awarded the Distinguished Collaborator Award, which honors individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers. Actor Doug Jones and Oscar-nominated costume designer Sequeira, both from del Toro’s 13-time Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water, presented del Toro with the award.
Kerry Washington received the Spotlight Award, which honors an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design. Eva Longoria, and Scandal costume designer Lyn Paolo made the special presentation to Washington.
Joanna Johnston was honored with the Career Achievement Award, recognizing her extraordinary body of work and lasting impact on filmmaking. Producer Kathleen Kennedy presented Johnston with her award, with a surprise appearance by Sally Field, who worked with Johnston on Forrest Gump and Lincoln.
Here’s a full rundown of CDGA winners:
FEATURE FILMS
Excellence in Contemporary Film
I, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson
Excellence in Period Film
The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
Wonder Woman – Lindy Hemming
TELEVISION
Excellence in Contemporary Television
The Handmaid’s Tale – Ane Crabtree
Excellence in Period Television
The Crown – Jane Petrie
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
Game of Thrones – Michele Clapton
Excellence in Short Form Design
P!NK: “Beautiful Trauma”, Music Video – Kim Bowen
SPECIAL HONORS
Career Achievement Award
Joanna Johnson
Distinguished Collaborator Award
Guillermo del Toro
Distinguished Service Award
Maggie Schpak
Spotlight Award
Kerry Washington
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More