# Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Contemporary Film

The Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Contemporary Film is one of the annual awards given by the Costume Designers Guild.
At the 1st Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony (celebrating excellence in film and television of 1998), all films, regardless of genre, competed in a combined Excellence in Film category. Among the inaugural nominees, three were period dramas, except for The Truman Show, which was the only modern-set film recognized, while the eventual winner, Pleasantville, was a fantasy film. The award was split into Excellence in Contemporary Film and Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film at subsequent ceremony. Since 2005, the latter category was further divided into Excellence in Period Film and Excellence in Fantasy Film (renamed Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film in 2017), with each genre receiving its own award.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Film | Costume Designer(s) |
| 1998 | No award given | No award given |
| Nomination for Excellence in Film ||
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Marilyn Matthews |
| 1999 | Excellence in Contemporary Film | Excellence in Contemporary Film |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Julie Weiss |
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Dona Granata |
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Marit Allen |
| 1999 | Fight Club | Michael Kaplan |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Costume Designer(s) |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Jeffrey Kurland |
| 2000 | Charlie's Angels | Joseph G. Aulisi |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Laura Bauer |
| 2000 | Traffic | Louise Frogley |
| 2000 | X-Men | Louise Mingenbach |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Karen Patch |
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | Sophie De Rakoff Carbonell |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | Amy Stofsky |
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Jeffrey Kurland |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Wendy Chuck |
| 2002 | About a Boy | Joanna Johnston |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Sarah Edwards |
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Ellen Mirojnick |
| 2002 | White Oleander | Susie DeSanto |
| 2003 | A Mighty Wind | Durinda Wood |
| 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Joseph G. Aulisi |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Catherine Marie Thomas |
| 2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Sophie De Rakoff Carbonell |
| 2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Milena Canonero |
| 2004 | Alfie | Beatrix Aruna Pasztor |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Melissa Toth |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Catherine Marie Thomas |
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Milena Canonero |
| 2005 | Transamerica | Danny Glicker |
| 2005 | Hustle & Flow | Paul A. Simmons Jr. |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Michael Kaplan |
| 2005 | Shopgirl | Nancy Steiner |
| 2005 | Syriana | Louise Frogley |
| 2006 | The Queen | Consolata Boyle |
| 2006 | Babel | Michael Wilkinson, Gabriela Diaque and Miwako Kobayashi |
| 2006 | Casino Royale | Lindy Hemming |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Patricia Field |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Nancy Steiner |
| 2007 | Blades of Glory | Julie Weiss |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Olivier Bériot |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Mary Claire Hannan |
| 2007 | Juno | Monique Prudhomme |
| 2007 | Ocean's Thirteen | Louise Frogley |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Suttirat Anne Larlarb |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Laura Jean Shannon and Rebecca Gregg |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Ann Roth |
| 2008 | Sex and the City | Patricia Field |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Amy Westcott |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Doug Hall |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Hope Hanafin |
| 2009 | Brüno | Jason Alper |
| 2009 | Precious | Marina Draghici |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Danny Glicker |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Costume Designer(s) |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Amy Westcott |
| 2010 | Burlesque | Michael Kaplan |
| 2010 | Inception | Jeffrey Kurland |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Jacqueline West |
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Ellen Mirojnick |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Trish Summerville |
| 2011 | Bridesmaids | Leesa Evans and Christine Wada |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Wendy Chuck |
| 2011 | Drive | Erin Benach |
| 2011 | Melancholia | Manon Rasmussen |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Jany Temime |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Stephani Lewis |
| 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Louise Stjernsward |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | Mark Bridges |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | George L. Little |
| 2013 | Blue Jasmine | Suzy Benzinger |
| 2013 | Her | Casey Storm |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Wendy Chuck |
| 2013 | Philomena | Consolata Boyle |
| 2013 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Sarah Edwards |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Albert Wolsky |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Kari Perkins |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Trish Summerville |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Mary Zophres |
| 2014 | Wild | Melissa Bruning |
| 2015 | Beasts of No Nation | Jenny Eagan |
| 2015 | Joy | Michael Wilkinson |
| 2015 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Arianne Phillips |
| 2015 | The Martian | Janty Yates |
| 2015 | Youth | Carlo Poggioli |
| 2016 | La La Land | Mary Zophres |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Rebecca Hale |
| 2016 | Captain Fantastic | Courtney Hoffman |
| 2016 | Lion | Cappi Ireland |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Arianne Phillips |
| 2017 | I, Tonya | Jennifer Johnson |
| 2017 | Get Out | Nadine Haders |
| 2017 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Arianne Phillips |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | April Napier |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Melissa Toth |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Mary E. Vogt |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Michele Clapton |
| 2018 | Ocean's 8 | Sarah Edwards |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | Trish Summerville |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Erin Benach |
| 2018 | Widows | Jenny Eagan |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Jenny Eagan |
| 2019 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Arjun Bhasin |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Mitchell Travers |
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Ellen Mirojnick |
| 2019 | Queen & Slim | Shiona Turini |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Costume Designer(s) |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman | Nancy Steiner |
| 2020 | Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar | Trayce Gigi Field |
| 2020 | Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Erin Benach |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Donna Berwick |
| 2020 | The Prom | Lou Eyrich |
| 2021 | Coming 2 America | Ruth E. Carter |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Susan Matheson |
| 2021 | In the Heights | Mitchell Travers |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Suttirat Anne Larlarb |
| 2021 | Zola | Derica Cole Washington |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Jenny Eagan |
| 2022 | Nope | Alex Bovaird |
| 2022 | Tár | Bina Daigeler |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Marlene Stewart |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Quita Alfred |
| 2023 | Saltburn | Sophie Canale |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Rudy Nance |
| 2023 | May December | April Napier |
| 2023 | Nyad | Kelli Jones |
| 2023 | Renfield | Lisa Lovaas |
| 2024 | Conclave | Lisy Christl |
| 2024 | Challengers | Jonathan Anderson |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Virginie Montel |
| 2024 | The Fall Guy | Sarah Evelyn |
| 2024 | The Substance | Emmanuelle Youchnovski |