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Oscar frontrunners “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), and “Conclave” (Lisy Christl) were all winners at the 27th Costume Designer Guild Awards (Cdga), held February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles. “Nobody Wants This” star Jackie Tohn served as host.

The film winners prevailed in the categories of sci-fi/fantasy, period, and contemporary, respectively. Costume designer Tazewell is currently the favorite to win the Oscar for “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s populist Oz musical. He created a connection to nature through mushroom motifs in the wardrobes for Elphaba (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo), and a floating sensibility with effervescent pink bubble motifs in the wardrobes for Galinda (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande).

In TV, the winners were “Dune: Prophecy” (Bojana Nikitovi) for sci-fi/fantasy, “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) for period, and “Hacks” (Kathleen Felix-Hager) for contemporary.

In addition, three-time Oscar winner Jenny Beavan won the Career Achievement Award, Oscar-nominated Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”) was given the Spotlight Award,...

Conclave, Nosferatu and Wicked won the awards for contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy film, respectively, at the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards.

All three films are nominated for the costume design Oscar, alongside A Complete Unknown and Gladiator II.

Other winners at the 27th annual ceremony, which took place Thursday night at The Ebell of Los Angeles, included Hacks, Shogun and Dune: Prophecy, which won the contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy awards, respectively, for TV. The Masked Singer won the award for excellence in variety, reality-competition and live television. And Shogun won a second award for excellence in costume illustration, one of two awards it was nominated for in that category.

The CDGAs, hosted by Nobody Wants This star Jackie Tohn, honored Emilia Pérez‘s Zoe Saldaña with this year’s spotlight award, Janelle Monáe with the vanguard spotlight award, Jenny Beavan with the career achievement award, Salvador Perez with the...

“Nosferatu,” “Wicked” and “Conclave” have won the feature film awards at the Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out on Thursday night in Los Angeles.

“Conclave” won in the Excellence in Contemporary Film category, “Wicked” won in Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film and “Nosferatu” won in Excellence in Period Film, the CDG category that most closely corresponds to the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

In the last 15 years, one of the winners at the CDG Awards has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design nine times, with the guild’s period film winner taking six of those awards and the sci-fi/fantasy winner taking three. Only once in that period, with “Little Women” in 2020, has the Oscar winner not been a CDG nominee.

All three CDG winners are nominated for the costume-design Oscar, along with “A Complete Unknown” and “Gladiator II.”

In television categories, “Shōgun...

Dressed to the nines and ready to shine, the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards (Cdga) rolled out their vibrant carpet on Thursday in Los Angeles. The ceremony celebrated outstanding achievements in costume design across film, television, short-form, and costume illustration. Among the glittering nominees were four of the five Oscar contenders for Best Costume Design: Conclave, Gladiator II, Nosferatu, and Wicked. Notably absent from the Cdga list was the Academy Award-nominated A Complete Unknown.

The four Oscar nominees were split between three categories, avoiding a direct clash prior to the 2025 Oscars on March 2. Conclave prevailed in Contemporary against co-nominees Challengers, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, and The Substance. In Fantasy, winner Wicked was up against Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Borderlands, Dune: Part Two, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The only two Oscar nominees to face off were Gladiator II and Nosferatu in Period, the latter of which prevailed, with the other contenders being The Book of Clarence,...

The nominees for the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards have been revealed.

In the contemporary film category, the nominees are Challengers, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy and The Substance.

In the period film category nominees are The Book of Clarence, Gladiator II, Maria, Nosferatu and Saturday Night.

And in the sci-fi/fantasy film categories, the nominees are Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Borderlands, Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Wicked.

In the TV categories — also divided among contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy — notable series nominated include Agatha All Along, Baby Reindeer, Emily in Paris, The Gentlemen, Hacks, Bridgerton, Feud, Palm Royale, Ripley, Shogun, Dune: Prophecy, Fallout, House of the Dragon, Lord of the Rings, The Masked Singer and Saturday Night Live.

Agatha All Along landed three nods, for excellence in contemporary television and sci-fi/fantasy television and costume illustration. The Masked Singer and Shogun received two nominations apiece, also getting...

Another day, another guild award nomination for “The Substance.”

On Friday, the Costume Designers Guild announced its 2025 CDG Awards nominees, and “The Substance” costume designer Emmanuelle Youchnovski was among the artisans highlighted for recognition.

Youchnovski is the latest department head from the Coralie Fargeat horror satire nominated for a guild award this week, following editors Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron at the Ace Eddie Awards, and hair and makeup team Frédérique Arguello and Stéphanie Guillon at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.

The film’s strong guild show corresponds to an outpouring of support from the journalists who make up the Golden Globes Foundation and Critics Choice Association. “The Substance” landed major nominations at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards this week, including best film nominations at each respective event and two Best Director bids for Fargeat.

“The Substance” wasn’t the only Best Picture...

The Costume Designers Guild unveiled the nominees for the 27th Cdga (Costume Designers Guild Awards) on December 13, showcasing a wide variety of work across film, TV, and short form.

Among the nominees for feature film are Oscar frontrunners “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Conclave” (Lisy Christl), and “Emilia Pérez” (Virginie Montel). In TV, “Agatha All Along” (Daniel Selon), “Fallout” (Amy Westcott), and “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) scored noms.

“I am thrilled to congratulate all the nominees for this year’s Cdga. Your exceptional creativity and dedication continue to elevate the art of costume design. We look forward to celebrating your incredible achievements on this magical evening. Best wishes to each nominee,” Terry Gordon, President of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892, said in a statement.

Winners in all nine categories will be announced at the Cdga ceremony Thursday, February 6, 2025, at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Western Costume returns as a...

The Costume Designers Guild on Friday unveiled nominations for the 27th CDGAs, with titles on the movie side ranging from blockbusters like Wicked, Gladiator II, Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to indie hits like Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Substance.

The CDG Awards nominates films in three categories — Contemporary, Period and Sci-Fi/Fantasy — along with four TV categories and one category apiece in Short Form Design and Costume Illustration.

Among the TV nominees with multiple mentions this morning are Shōgun and Agatha All Along, with others with eye-popping looks in the mix including Bridgerton, Dancing With the Stars and The Masked Singer, and Emily In Paris.

Winners will be revealed at the 27th annual CDG Awards hosted by Jackie Tohn on February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles.

Last year, the film winners included Barbie, Saltburn and eventual Costume Design Oscar winner Holly Waddingham for Poor Things.

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Retired Command Sergeant Major Lamont Christian analyzes the accuracy of the boot camp scenes in Band of Brothers, awarding the scenes an eight out of 10 for accuracy. David Schwimmer's character's treatment of Easy Company is deemed to be too harmful to morale, particularly his order for soldiers to not help their comrades, which goes against the "warrior ethos." Although Band of Brothers fudges history in many respects, it is overall an accurate and moving portrait of one company's journey through World War II.

Band of Brothers' boot camp scenes get analyzed and graded for accuracy by a retired U.S. Army officer. Released in 2001, the World War II HBO miniseries hails from co-creators Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Band of Brothers remains one of the channel's most acclaimed shows, with a 10-episode run that chronicles Easy Company's journey from training through to the end of the war.

In a recent video for Insider,...

Andrew Garfield’s anti-war film Hacksaw Ridge gets praise from a World War 2 expert. Based on a true story, Hacksaw Ridge tells the story of pacifist Desmond Doss (Garfield). Despite joining the war efforts during World War 2, Doss refuses to kill, claiming that his devout Seventh-day Adventist religion prevented him from doing so. Hacksaw Ridge was well-received upon its 2016 release and received six Oscars nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Garfield.

World War 2 historian James Holland breaks down Hacksaw Ridge for its historical accuracy in an analysis with Penguin Books UK. Highlighting various elements of the movie's battle sequences, Holland first pointed out that the Japanese battle tactics–charging at their enemy and yelling–were “spot on.” He also mentioned that the weapons depicted, including flamethrowers and spud guns, closely matched those that were used in WW2. Overall, Holland praised the movie's historical accuracy and cinematography in depicting...

James Holland, a World War II historian, grades the historical accuracy of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Released in 2009, Inglourious Basterds stars Brad Pitt and Christopher Waltz, the latter of whom plays a Nazi commander charged with hunting down Jewish people throughout Europe. The film, which serves very much as an alternate history of real events, begins with a standout sequence in which Waltz's Hanz Landa interrogates a French farmer suspected of harboring a Jewish family.

In a new video from Penguin Books UK, Holland breaks down how historically accurate Inglourious Basterds' is by looking at the film's iconic opening farm house sequence. The bemused expert admits that while it is a very entertaining film, many elements are pure fiction. Check out Holland's full comment or watch the video below (section starts at 12:26):

“A friend of mine, another historian called Peter Caddick-Adams, he was asked to be a historical advisor on Inglourious Basterds.

One scene involving a tank in HBO's Band of Brothers features some wild inaccuracies, according to World War II historian James Holland. Released in 2001 and based on a book by Stephen Ambrose, which is itself based on first-hand accounts, Band of Brothers chronicles the journey of members of Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. The Band of Brothers remains one of HBO's most acclaimed shows and has been lauded for its storytelling, acting, and historical accuracy.

Now, however, World War II historian Holland reveals in a new video from Penguin Books UK that one tank scene from Band of Brothers feature some critical errors. The scene in question features an Easy Company soldier telling a British tank commander that a German tank is hiding behind a house, and that he should fire through the house to hit it. The British tank commander refuses, saying that his...

The new season of the podcast series Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry, takes us into the hidden world of police investigations. It goes inside the interrogation room, uncovering the gripping drama behind one of Texas Ranger James Holland’s most controversial cases: the murder of a woman named Bobbie Sue Hill. Just Say You're Sorry is hosted by The Marshall Project’s journalist Maurice Chammah.

Film, about a retired Raf pilot, is the debut feature of Steven Hall.

Oscar-winning actor William Hurt has boarded the cast of A Pair Of Silver Wings, a UK drama about a retired Raf pilot.

The project is due to shoot in the UK, Malta and Italy in 2019.

It tells the story of Edward Enderby, a seventy-two year-old veteran pilot of the Second World War who travels to the Mediterranean island of Malta and the hillsides of Northern Italy on a journey of self-discovery and personal redemption. Hurt will play a fellow war veteran, the American Eagle Squadron pilot Lucky Santini.

Convicted killer Samuel Little, 78, could turn out to be among the country’s most prolific serial killers in history, and one that, until now, law enforcement didn’t even realize existed. According to the FBI, after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for three murders in Southern California between 1986 and 1989, Little recently began confessing to dozens more. In total, Little has confessed to killing 90 women across more than a dozen states between 1970 and 2005 — and thus far, according to the the FBI, investigators has been able to link...

British FIlm Company founder to focus on producing full time.

Steve Milne, the executive chairman of London post-production house Molinare, has left the company to focus full time on his production outfit British Film Company.

Milne was previously Molinare’s chief executive for seven years but left in 2010 to found his own production company and has since backed UK features including Journey’s End, Dad’s Army and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

He returned to Molinare in 2012 after it had been placed into administration, partnering with Julie Parmenter and Next Wave to buy the company’s assets and relaunch it,...

Two years ago, Daredevil introduced us to Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk – better known to you, I, and New York’s crime ring as The Kingpin – and Marvel’s roster of small-screen villains hasn’t been the same since.

Sure, Kilgrave (Jessica Jones) had his moments, but there was something so deliciously evil about D’Onofrio’s antagonist that he simply commanded each and every scene. It’s small wonder, then, that Kingpin is considered a fan-favorite among Netflix subscribers, who are now looking forward to the character’s return in Daredevil season 3.

Filming is due to commence in the new year, while Marvel and Netflix also have new instalments of Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist cramming up the pipeline. Expect further details on each street-level hero to emerge in the coming weeks and months, but for Daredevil, concept artist James Holland (via ComicBook.com) has shattered the...