Thursday, January 11, 2018
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, GREATEST SHOWMAN Among Nominees for 2018 Costume Designers Guild Awards
www.broadwayworld.com: Nominations were announced for The Costume Designers Guild's 20th annual CDG Awards, which recognize excellence in film, TV and shortform costume design. The winners will be announced at a ceremony held at The Beverly HIlton on February 2nd.
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Since coming to CMU, I have developed a great appreciation for costume design. When I was in the theatre watching Murder on the Orient Express, I was truly amazed by the craft put into every single costume. The period of the film was brought together in front of my eyes because of the use of set detail and costume and wig design. I have felt this way about a number of films that I have seen this year but that is the one that specifically sits in my mind.
I think it's really amazing that designers and craftspeople are honored with awards like actors are. Obviously acting is someone that almost everyone knows about because those are the people that find themselves in front of the camera. But the honoring of the people behind the camera has to find itself equally as important because without designers and craftspeople the movie could not happen.
I will definitely be looking out for who won these awards.
As someone who adores costume design and always tries to keep an eye out for it in everything I watch, I always await these nominations with bated breath to see if they match up with what I think deserves to be nominated. But I especially love the wide range of categories that things are nominated for - not just film costumers, but television and even commercial costumers have a chance to win the awards. And as someone interested in fantasy and sci-fi television and film, the broad categories available for Period and Sci-fi/Fantasy awards is even more amazing to see, since in theater like we do at CMU you don't often if ever, really get a chance to explore those realms to the fullest. It's so important to acknowledge people in more unusual fields like television and music videos, especially those who work behind the scenes and often go unrecognized even if the show or video goes viral.
Costumes are one aspect to a production of any kind and can be so forefront in our minds without ever realizing it. Examples can be found in any well-known movie as no one can imagine a World War II movie without accurate costumes or Indiana Jones without his regular getup. The costumes become so important to the character which people associate so closely and remember so well. This past year has been incredible in not only what is being produced but the whole ration of each production. I have been blown away by every part that goes into the production and so I am personally very excited to see the nominees and winners in every category. However, costumes excite me in particular this year because every time I think of a movie I see the costumes so vividly as they were just astounding. This year’s costume nominees are already such an impressive list and to see who wins will be amazing because everyone that was nominates did such an amazing job; I don’t think I could choose just one for each category.
Seeing a list of nominees for awards centered purely around costume design is very exciting. When I was in Fifth Grade, my mom became a costumer for my school’s high school theatre company. She had done a little sewing and altering clothes in the past, but had never costume designed before. Being the handy, talented, versatile person she is, she excelled at costuming. I had always appreciated theatre, having been to a bunch of performances at the Shakespeare Tavern and Shakespeare in the Park in Atlanta, but now I had a window into what happened behind the scenes through costuming. I would sit in the costume shop after school during tech crew, doing homework while I waited for my mom to take me home. But through being in the shop, watching her and her costume crew discuss, design, troubleshoot, and problem solve, I began to really understand what tech theatre is about. Awards like the Costumer’s Guild Awards help recognize creators who really do an incredible job at something that might normally fly under most people’s radar, despite the huge impact costuming has on our overall understanding of the show.
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