Oscar Predictions: Best Costume Design — Could Paul Tazewell Make ‘Wicked’ Awards History?
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2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Costume Design
Weekly Commentary (Updated Nov. 14, 2024): More to come.
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** denotes the film is not yet dated or can open in 2025.
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Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection And the Predicted Nominees Are
Rank Performer & Film 1 “Wicked” (Universal Pictures) — Paul Tazewell 2 “Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures) — Janty Yates 3 “Nosferatu” (Focus Features) — Linda Muir 4 “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) — Jacqueline West 5 “Maria” (Netflix) — Massimo Cantini Parrini Oscars: Best Costume Design (Variety Awards Circuit Predictions) -
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Next in Line
Rank Performer & Film 6 “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.) — Colleen Atwood 7 “Blitz” (Apple Original Films) — Jacqueline Durran 8 “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures) — Arianne Phillips 9 “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix) — Francine Jamison-Tanchuck 10 “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (Warner Bros.) — Jenny Beavan Oscars: Best Costume Design (Variety Awards Circuit Predictions) -
Image Credit: Moris Puccio/Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Other Contenders
Rank Performer & Film 11 “The Brutalist” (A24) — Kate Forbes 12 “Saturday Night” (Sony Pictures) — Danny Glicker 13 “Queer” (A24) — J.W. Anderson 14 “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) — Virginie Montel 15 “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures) — Anna B. Sheppard 16 “Better Man” (Paramount Pictures) — Cappi Ireland 17 “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment) — Laura Montgomery 18 “Firebrand” (Roadside Attractions) — Michael O’Connor 19 “Megalopolis” (Lionsgate) — Milena Canonero 20 “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures) — Antoinette Messam Oscars: Best Costume Design (Variety Awards Circuit Predictions) -
Eligible Titles (Best Costume Design)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection ** This list is incomplete and not yet finalized. Not all films have distribution or release dates. All are subject to change.
- “Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios) — Carlos Rosario
- “All We Imagine as Light” (Janus Films/Sideshow) — Maxima Basu
- “Anora” (Neon) — Jocelyn Pierce
- “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment) — Laura Montgomery
- “Babygirl” (A24) — Kurt and Bart
- “Back to Black” (Focus Features) — PC Williams
- “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.) — Colleen Atwood
- “Better Man” (Paramount Pictures) — Cappi Ireland
- “Between the Temples” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “The Bikeriders” (Focus Features)
- “Bird” (Mubi)
- “Black Dog” (The Forge)
- “Blink” (National Geographic)
- “Blink Twice” (Amazon MGM)
- “Blitz” (Apple Original Films)
- “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures)
- “The Brutalist” (A24)
- “Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid!” (CNN Films)
- “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)
- “Civil War” (A24)
- “The Colors Within” (GKids)
- “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “Conclave” (Focus Features)
- “The Count of Monte Cristo” (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
- “Daddio” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “Dahomey” (Mubi)
- “Daughters” (Netflix)
- “Day of the Fight” (Falling Forward Films)
- “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Marvel Studios)
- “The Deliverance” (Netflix)
- “Despicable Me 4” (Illumination/Universal Pictures)
- “A Different Man” (A24)
- “Dìdi” (Focus Features)
- “Drive-Away Dolls” (Focus Features)
- “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)
- “Elton John: Never Too Late” (Walt Disney Pictures)
- “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
- “The End” (Neon)
- “Evil Does Not Exist” (Sideshow)
- “Exhibiting Forgiveness” (Roadside Attractions)
- “Ezra” (Roadside Attractions)
- “Fancy Dance” (Apple Original Films)
- “Femme” (Utopia)
- “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM)
- “Firebrand” (Roadside Attractions)
- “Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
- “Frida” (Amazon MGM)
- “The Front Room” (A24)
- “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (Warner Bros.)
- “Girls Will Be Girls” (Juno Films)
- “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (Warner Bros.)
- “Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures)
- “Ghostlight” (IFC Films)
- “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
- “The Greatest Hits” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “Green Border” (Kino Lorber)
- “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
- “Here” (Sony Pictures)
- “Heretic” (A24)
- “His Three Daughters” (Netflix)
- “Hit Man” (Netflix)
- “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (Warner Bros.)
- “I Am Celine Dion” (Amazon MGM)
- “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
- “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “The Idea of You” (Amazon MGM)
- “IF” (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Imaginary” (Netflix)
- “In the Summers” (Music Box Films)
- “Inside Out 2” (Pixar)
- “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” (Kino Lorber)
- “It Ends With Us” (Sony Pictures)
- “Janet Planet” (A24)
- “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.)
- “Kinds of Kindness” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios)
- “Kneecap” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “The Last Showgirl” (Roadside Attractions)
- “Lee” (Roadside Attractions)
- “Longlegs” (Neon)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” (Warner Bros.)
- “Los Frikis” (Wayward/Range Releasing)
- “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
- “Maria” (Netflix)
- “Megalopolis” (Lionsgate)
- “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films)
- “Misericordia” (Janus Films)
- “Moana 2” (Walt Disney Pictures)
- “Monkey Man” (Universal Pictures)
- “The Most Precious of Cargoes” (StudioCanal)
- “Mothers’ Instinct” (Neon)
- “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Walt Disney Pictures)
- “My Old Ass” (Amazon MGM)
- “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM/Orion)
- “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “No Other Land” (Antipode Films)
- “Nosferatu” (Focus Features)
- “Oh, Canada” (Kino Lorber)
- “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (A24)
- “One Life” (Bleecker Street)
- “The Order” (Vertical Entertainment)
- “The Outrun” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “Parthenope” (A24)
- “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
- “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix)
- “Piece by Piece” (Focus Features)
- “Queer” (A24)
- “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” (Netflix)
- “Rez Ball” (Netflix)
- “The Room Next Door” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “Rumours” (Bleecker Street)
- “Santosh” (Metrograph Pictures)
- “Sasquatch Sunset” (Bleecker Street)
- “Saturday Night” (Sony Pictures)
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon)
- “September 5” (Paramount Pictures)
- “Shirley” (Netflix)
- “Sing Sing” (A24)
- “The Six Triple Eight” (Netflix)
- “Small Things Like These” (Lionsgate)
- “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount Pictures)
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber)
- “Spellbound” (Netflix)
- “Stopmotion” (IFC/Shudder)
- “The Substance” (Mubi)
- “Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films)
- “Suncoast” (Searchlight Pictures)
- “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (Warner Bros.)
- “That Christmas” (Netflix)
- “Thelma” (Magnolia Pictures)
- “To a Land Unknown” (Watermelon Pictures)
- “Transformers One” (Paramount Pictures)
- “Tuesday” (A24)
- “Twisters” (Universal Pictures)
- “Ultraman: Rising” (Netflix)
- “Unstoppable” (Amazon MGM)
- “Venom: The Last Dance” (Sony Pictures)
- “Vermiglio” (Janus Films and Sidehow)
- “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)
- “We Grown Now” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “We Live in Time” (A24)
- “Wicked” (Universal Pictures)
- “The Wild Robot” (DreamWorks Animation)
- “Wildcat” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
- “Will & Harper” (Netflix)
- “Woman of the Hour” (Netflix)
- “Yintah” (Netflix)
- “Young Woman and the Sea” (Walt Disney Pictures)
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More Information (Costume Design)
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures 2024 category winner: “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Holly Waddington
2024-2025 Oscars Calendar and Timeline (all dates are subject to change)
- Eligibility period: Jan. 1, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2024
- General entry, best picture, RAISE submission deadline: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
- Governors Awards: Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024
- Preliminary voting begins Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, at 9 a.m. PT.
- Preliminary voting ends Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, at 5 p.m. PT.
- Oscar Shortlists Announcement: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024
- Eligibility period ends: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024
- Nominations voting begins Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT.
- Nominations voting ends Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT.
- Oscar Nominations Announcement: Friday, Jan. 17, 2025
- Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025
- Final voting begins Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT
- Final voting ends: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT
- Scientific and Technical Awards: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025
- 97th Oscars: Sunday, March 2, 2025
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