Costume Designers Guild Awards: ‘Dune,’ ‘Coming 2 America’ and ‘Cruella’ Among Winners
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Dune”, “Coming 2 America” and “Cruella” were the film winners at the 2022 Costume Designers Guild Awards on Wednesday night.Back in person after the pandemic, the awards recognized excellence in film, TV and short-form costume design and were hosted by Andrew Rannells and Casey Wilson.Costume Designers Guild president Salvador Perez discussed the role the awards and the guild played in the pandemic, saying, “As a community, we have survived a life-changing pandemic industry and been on the brink of work stoppage.”Perez also called for “pay equity now.” This has been an ongoing plea from Perez and the costume designers who fight for pay equity.
He said, costume designers, are “historically underpaid for too long. It’s about costume designers in the costume department being valued as a major asset to the industry and compensated accordingly.” He noted the Costume designers guild will soon be launching a social media campaign to showcase these underpaid voices.
Once again the costume designers present were encouraged by Perez to show solidarity in raising their Pay Equity Now flags. In the past, Perez has said, “Here’s the issue, costume designers are 85% women.
Production designers are 85% men. We are working for hire. They build. We are two department heads doing what I think is an equal job.
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