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UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Oscars are history, and as Hollywood gets a brief respite from awards madness — though Emmy season looms — it’s time to look ahead at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a shortened list of awards shows, events and the like as we look ahead to warmer climes and Emmy…

More than 1,000 artifacts from decades of television will hit the auction block on June 2-4. Among the items up for bids are The Tonight Show set from which Johnny Carson kept a nation awake and entertained until his 1992 farewell; the desk and New York City skyline from David Letterman’s Late Night…

UPDATED with latest: Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips tweeted two new photos of Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix in full makeup as the film’s titular villain as he announced that the film has officially wrapped. That's a wrap. Thanks to these two (+ the entire cast) and the…

Jacqueline West is one of Hollywood's most respected costume designers with four Oscar nominations for Philip Kaufmann's Quills, David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant and Denis Villeneuve's Dune. She is also Terrence Malick's go-to costume designer…

When one thinks of women and Elvis Presley, it's either his widow Priscilla, his late daughter Lisa Marie, or the legion of ladies left weak in the knee when the badass kid from Tupelo, Mississippi began shaking that moneymaker. In the case of the eight-time Oscar-nominated film Elvis, the front men are…

Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery went home with the film prizes at the 25th anniversary Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Check out the winners list below. Catherine Martin took…

As Angela Bassett enjoys a serious awards-season run for her supporting role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she’s about to dress up her trophy case even more. The current Oscar nominee and recent Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winner will receive the Spotlight Award at the Costume Designers…

The Costume Designers Guild has unwrapped the nominees for its 25th anniversary CDGA Awards next month. See the full list below. Celebrating excellence in film, television, and short form costume design, the 2023 CDGA ceremony is set for Monday, February 27, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los…

From comics to films, superhero stories have always had an impassioned audience. This Oscar season has seen new people donning the mantle of the heroes, which gives the costume designers the chance to elevate their design while still paying homage to the original comics. After the death of Chadwick…

Alessandro Michele, whose high-profile fashion clients include Jared Leto, Billie Eilish, Florence Welch, rockers Måneskin, and singer Harry Styles, is leaving the house of Gucci as creative director. His exit was announced Wednesday, ending an eight-year run. Womenswear Daily reported…

The Costume Designers Guild said today that its 25th annual CDGA will be handed out on Monday, February 27, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. It also revealed other key dates for the 2023 CDGA; see them below. Nominations for the silver anniversary awards, which celebrate excellence in film, TV and…

For the second season of The Witcher, costume designer Lucinda Wright wanted to bring in more realism to the armor. The Witcher follows Geralt (Henry Cavill), a mutated monster slayer known as a witcher, as he seeks to protect his surrogate daughter Ciri (Freya Allan) from the monsters and people that hunt her. Wright…