Costume Designers Guild Awards 2015

18th CDG Awards

February 23, 2016

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Contemporary:
Beasts of No Nation

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Fantasy:
Mad Max: Fury Road

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Period:
The Danish Girl

The 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards, honouring the best costume designs in film and television for 2015, were given in 2016. The nominees were announced on January 7, 2016.

Winners and nominees

Film

Excellence in Contemporary Film

• Winner - Beasts of No Nation - Jenny Eagan
  • Joy - Michael Wilkinson
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service - Arianne Phillips
  • The Martian - Janty Yates
  • Youth - Carlo Poggioli

Excellence in Fantasy Film

• Winner - Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan
  • Cinderella - Sandy Powell
  • Ex Machina - Sammy Sheldon Differ
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 - Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Michael Kaplan

Excellence in Period Film

• Winner - The Danish Girl - Paco Delgado
  • Brooklyn - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
  • Carol - Sandy Powell
  • Crimson Peak - Kate Hawley
  • Trumbo - Daniel Orlandi

Television

Outstanding Contemporary Television Series

• Winner - American Horror Story: Hotel - Lou Eyrich
  • Empire, Season 1 - Rita McGhee
  • House of Cards - Johanna Argan, Kemal Harris
  • Ray Donovan - Christopher Lawrence
  • Transparent - Marie Schley

Outstanding Fantasy Television Series

• Winner - Game of Thrones - Michele Clapton
  • Once Upon a Time - Eduardo Castro
  • Sleepy Hollow, Season 2 - Kristin M. Burke, Mairi Chisholm
  • Sleepy Hollow, Season 3 - Mairi Chisholm
  • The Wiz Live! - Paul Tazewell

Outstanding Period Television Series

• Winner - The Knick - Ellen Mirojnick
  • Mad Men - Janie Bryant, Tiffany White Stanton
  • Masters of Sex - Isis Mussenden
  • Outlander - Terry Dresbach
  • Penny Dreadful - Gabriella Pescucci

Short Film

Excellence in Short Form Design

• Winner - "The Most Interesting Man in the World Wins on Land, Sea & Air," Dos Equis Commercial – Julie Vogel
  • "And So It Begins," Old Spice Commercial – Mindy Le Brock
  • "From the Makers of Happy & Merry, H&M Presents Katy Perry" Commercial – B. Åkerlund
  • The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth – Dance Battle, Video Game, Kaboom/Warner Interactive Commercial – Soyon An
  • Kevin Spacey, E-Trade Commercial – Johanna Argan