'King's Speech,' 'Black Swan' and 'Alice' Top Costume Designers Guild Awards

An interesting category to predict at the Oscars

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 at 9:42 AM

I am putting together my final Oscar predictions for posting today and one of the categories that will be changing will be Best Costumes and I wouldn't say last night's results from the Costume Designers Guild was the reason for the change, but it certainly helped solidify my decision.

I already updated the Oscar Overture with these results, but for those of you not running over there every 24 hours, Black Swan's Amy Westcott won for costumes in a contemporary film, the one category that didn't have a single Oscar nominee. The period and fantasy categories had two Oscar nominees each among them with The King's Speech (Jenny Beavan) winning period and Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood) winning fantasy.

Currently I have Mary Zophres predicted to win the Oscar for True Grit, but that will be changing. The race seems quite obviously between Beavan and Atwood, and both are Oscar regulars. Atwood has been nominated for the Oscar eight times before now and won twice for two Rob Marshall films, Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago. Beavan has also been nominated eight times before and won once for A Room with a View. So who will win? My prediction is coming up, but first for the complete list of CDG winners and nominees.

EXCELLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM

• Black Swan (Amy Westcott)
• Burlesque (Michael Kaplan)
• Inception (Jeffrey Kurland)
• The Social Network (Jacqueline West)
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Ellen Mirojnick)

EXCELLENCE IN PERIOD FILM

• The Fighter (Mark Bridges)
• The King's Speech (Jenny Beavan)
• True Grit (Mary Zophres)

EXCELLENCE IN FANTASY FILM

• Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
• The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
• TRON: Legacy (Michael Wilkinson and Christine Bieselin Clark)

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