Oscar Predictions: Best Costume Design — Could Paul Tazewell Make ‘Wicked’ Awards History?

2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Costume Design

As a film enthusiast with over two decades of immersion in the silver screen world, I eagerly await the annual spectacle that is the Oscars. Having watched countless movies from every corner of the globe, I can confidently say that the Academy Awards truly recognize the cream of the crop in cinematic artistry.

Weekly Update (November 4, 2024): The chatter about the technical categories for the upcoming Oscars is reaching an all-time high, as “Wicked” is expected to make a significant impact, particularly in the costume design field.

Paul Tazewell, a highly acclaimed costume designer with an Oscar nomination, Emmy, and Tony Award to his name, stands at the forefront of this impending success. He initially drew attention from the Academy for his work on Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of “West Side Story,” making history as the first Black male costume designer to receive an Oscar nomination. Previously, only one other Black costume designer had won – Ruth E. Carter, who made history by being the first Black woman to win multiple Oscars for her exceptional costumes in “Black Panther” (2018) and its sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (2022). Tazewell’s keen eye for detail and authenticity is beautifully showcased by the stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in “Wicked,” where their work promises a blend of magical whimsy and refined craftsmanship.

This year’s competition may pit Tazewell against Janty Yates, another prominent figure in the field who won an Oscar in 2001 for her groundbreaking work on “Gladiator.” Yates is back with “Gladiator II,” and both audiences and industry voters can expect to witness the raw, lavish Roman visuals that made the first film a resounding success.

Also vying for gold is Jacqueline West, a seasoned artisan with five Oscar nominations under her belt but yet to secure the win. Her distinguished portfolio includes nominations for “Quills” (2000), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008), “The Revenant” (2015), “Dune” (2021) and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023). West’s collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve on the film’s second installment finds her designs playing a crucial narrative role, as they embody the spirit of Villeneuve’s dystopian world-building.

Simultaneously, the esteemed costume designer Colleen Atwood is making a strong comeback. With an impressive 12 nominations in her category, she’s currently tied for second place with Jenny Beavan from “Furiosa: A Mad Max Story” and the late Dorothy Jeakins. Her four previous wins – for “Chicago” (2002), “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005), “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (2016) – bring her closer to another accolade. This year, she’s nominated for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic cult film that Warner Bros is strategically pitching for technical awards. Renowned for her whimsical and often gothic style, Atwood’s re-entry into Burton’s eccentric universe has her as a potential underdog.

More to come as the season unfolds.

** denotes the film is not yet dated or can open in 2025.

And the Predicted Nominees Are

Rank	Performer & Film
1	“Wicked” (Universal Pictures) — Paul Tazewell
2	“Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures) — Janty Yates
3	“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) — Jacqueline West
4	“Maria” (Netflix) — Massimo Cantini Parrini
5	“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) — Linda Muir



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



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

Eligible Titles (Best Costume Design)



** 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)
• “All We Imagine as Light” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
• “Anora” (Neon)
• “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment)
• “Babygirl” (A24)
• “Back to Black” (Focus Features)
• “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.)
• “Better Man” (Paramount Pictures)
• “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)
• “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)

More Information (Costume Design)



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

Oscars Prediction Categories

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Best Picture	Director
Actor in a Leading Role	Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role	Actress in a Supporting Role
Original Screenplay	Adapted Screenplay
Animated Feature	Production Design
Cinematography	Costume Design
Film Editing	Makeup and Hairstyling
Sound	Visual Effects
Original Score	Original Song
Documentary Feature	International Feature
Animated Short	Documentary Short
Live Action Short	Casting (coming in 2026)

About the Academy Awards

Each year, the Academy Awards, more commonly known as the Oscars, are presented to recognize outstanding achievements in the movie industry. This prestigious honor has been given out since 1927 by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The academy comprises nearly 10,000 individuals who work across seventeen different branches, such as actors, directors, cinematographers, costume designers, film editors, makeup artists, marketing professionals, musicians, producers, and writers, among others.

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