The sun has come out (tomorrow) for Emilio Sosa…
The 54-year-old Dominican Tony Award-nominated costume designer is among this year’s CDG Awards nominees, as announced by the Costume Designers Guild.
Sosa, the current Chair for the American Theatre Wing Board of Trustees in New York City, is nominated in the Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television for his work on Annie Live!, a musical television special that aired on NBC on December 2, 2021. It was a performance of the 1977 musical Annie, which is based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
Sosa competed on Season 7 of Project Runway and Project Runway All Stars.
He’s best known for his works Topdog/Underdog, Porgy and Bess, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
Meanwhile Cuban American designer Jeriana San Juan and Mexican costume design Mayes C. Rubeo are both nominated in the Excellence in Period Television category.
San Juan is nominated for her work on Halston: Becoming Halston; Rubeo is nominated for WandaVision: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience.
The CDG Awards recognize excellence in the craft across eight film, TV and short-form categories. The guild also said its winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony March 9 at The Broad Stage.
This year’s host, presenters and additional honorees will be announced in the coming weeks, the guild said.
“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been reminded how important costume design is, not only to entertain—but to inspire,” said CDG president Salvador Perez. “We are thrilled to celebrate in person this year, with safety as our priority. We want to recognize our nominees and all of their phenomenal work as we take the CDGA into a new direction.”
Here is the full list of nominees:
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
Dune
Jacqueline West & Robert Morgan
The Green Knight
Malgosia Turzanska
The Matrix Resurrections
Lindsay Pugh
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Kym Barrett
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Sanja M. Hays
The Suicide Squad
Judianna Makovsky
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Coming 2 America
Ruth E. Carter
Don’t Look Up
Susan Matheson
In The Heights
Mitchell Travers
No Time to Die
Suttirat Anne Larlarb
Zola
Derica Cole Washington
Excellence in Period Film
Cruella
Jenny Beavan
Cyrano
Massimo Cantini Parrini & Jacqueline Durran
House of Gucci
Janty Yates
Nightmare Alley
Luis Sequeira
West Side Story
Paul Tazewell
Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 1
Shawna Trpcic
The Handmaid’s Tale: Nightshade
Debra Hanson
Loki: Journey into Mystery
Christine Wada
What We Do in the Shadows: Gail
Laura Montgomery
The Witcher: Family
Lucinda Wright
Excellence in Contemporary Television
Emily in Paris: French Revolution
Patricia Field & Marylin Fitoussi
Euphoria: F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob
Heidi Bivens
Hacks: Pilot
Kathleen Felix-Hager
Mare of Easttown: Miss Ladyhawk Herself
Meghan Kasperlik
Squid Game: VIPS
Cho Sang-kyung
Excellence in Period Television
The Great: Seven Days
Sharon Long
Halston: Becoming Halston
Jeriana San Juan
The Underground Railroad: Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn
Caroline Eselin-Schaefer
WandaVision: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
Mayes C. Rubeo
What We Do in the Shadows: The Wellness Centre
Laura Montgomery
Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
Annie Live!
Emilio Sosa
Dancing with the Stars: Semi-Finals
Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee
The Late Late Show with James Corden: Crosswalk Cinderella
Lauren Shapiro
The Masked Singer: 2 Night Season Premiere, Part 2: Back to School
Marina Toybina & Gabrielle Letamendi
Saturday Night Live: Rami Malek / Young Thug
Tom Broecker & Eric Justian
Excellence in Short Form Design
The Bold Type: “Cruella” (Commercial)
Mandi Line
Cadillac: Edgar Scissorhands ft. Timothée Chalamet, “Hands Free” (Commercial)
Melissa DesRosiers
Ed Sheeran: “Shivers” (Music Video)
Ami Goodheart
Snoop Dogg’s Triller: Fight Club “We’re Bringing Boxing Back” (Commercial)
Dawn Ritz
Swarovski: “Welcome to Wonderlab” (Commercial)
B. Åkerlund
