Paul Tazewell & More Nominated for Costume Designers Guild Awards - Full List of Nominees

Tony Award-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell has been nominated for his costume design work in Wicked: For Good at the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards in the category of Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film. Tazewell previously took home the award for the first film earlier this year.

Other notable nominees include Katja Cahill for the NBC special Wicked: One Wonderful Night,  Kasia Walicka Maimone for The Gilded Age, and Malgosia Turzanska for Hamnet. Take a look at the full list of nominees below. 

Celebrating excellence in film, television, short form costume design, and costume illustration, the annual CDGA ceremony will take place on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at The Ebell of Los Angeles, California. Winners in the nine competitive categories will be announced live at the event. The 28th CDGA host, presenters and additional honorees will be announced in the coming weeks. 

“We are proud to congratulate this year’s CDGA nominees. You create characters that inspire audiences and shape the future. We look forward to celebrating you and your brilliant work on this incredible evening. Best wishes to each nominee,” said Terry Ann Gordon, President of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892.

28TH CDGA NOMINEES: 

Excellence in Contemporary Film

• Bugonia - Jennifer Johnson, CDG
• F1® The Movie - Julian Day, CDG
• One Battle After Another - Colleen Atwood, CDG
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - Jenny Eagan, CDG
• Weapons - Trish Summerville, CDG

Excellence in Period Film

• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - Anna Mary Scott Robbins
• Frankenstein - Kate Hawley, CDG
• Hamnet - Malgosia Turzanska, CDG
• Hedda - Lindsay Pugh
• Sinners - Ruth E. Carter, CDG

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

• Avatar: Fire and Ash - Deborah L. Scott, CDG
• How To Train Your Dragon - Lindsay Pugh
• Thunderbolts* - Sanja Milkovic Hays, CDG
• TRON: Ares - Christine Bieselin Clark, CDG & Alix Friedberg, CDG
• Wicked: For Good - Paul Tazewell, CDG

Excellence in Contemporary Television

• Emily in Paris - Veni, Vidi, Venezia - Marylin Fitoussi
• Hacks - Heaven - Kathleen Felix-Hager, CDG
• The Righteous Gemstones - You Hurled Me Into the Depths, Into the Very Heart of the Seas - Christina Flannery, CDG
• The Studio - CinemaCon - Kameron Lennox, CDG
• Wednesday - Woe Me The Money - Colleen Atwood, CDG & Mark Sutherland

Excellence in Period Television

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

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television

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

Excellence in Short Form Design

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

Excellence in Costume Illustration

• On Swift Horses - Eduardo Lucero, CDG Illustrator
• Palm Royale - Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator
• Sinners - Felipe Sanchez, CDG Illustrator
• Weapons - Oksana Nedavniaya, CDG Illustrator

ABOUT THE COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD

The Costume Designers Guild, Local 892, is a Union formed for the promotion and protection of the art of costume design. Members, including costume designers, assistant costume designers, and illustrators, use their artistry and technical expertise to create believable characters through their attire, reflecting their personality, social status, and identity within the narratives of film, television, commercials, music videos, and short form design. Over 1,000 members strong, the CDG is a proud affiliate of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).