Actress Amy Adams, recipient of the Costume Designers Guild Lacoste Spotlight award
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Amy Adams Among Honorees at Event in Beverly Hills
The Costume Designers Guild celebrated its 16th awards ceremony with a Beverly Hills gala Feb. 22 featuring plenty of celebrities and costume designers—and plenty of shared jokes between the two.
“I have been privileged to work with so many wonderful costume designers,” said actress Amy Adams, who was presented with the “CDG Lacoste Spotlight” award by “American Hustle” co-star Jeremy Renner and costume designer Michael Wilkinson. Adams gave a shout-out to the two International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees unions covering costume designers, the Local 892 (the CDG) and IATSE Local 705 (the Motion Picture Costumers union), before launching into a list of lessons she’s learned from costume designers, including not to lie about her measurements and to always wear undergarments to a fitting.
“Thank you for telling me the actual start date of the movie,” she continued. “[And for teaching me not to] complain about my 5:45 call time because you are there at 3:45 and you stayed late to wash my things.”
Other honorees included writer, director and producer Judd Apatow, who was presented with the “Distinguished Collaborator” award by actors Bill Hader and Jonah Hill.
Actors Debra Winger and Ciarán Hinds presented the “Honorary Career Achievement” award to
Emmy award–winning costume designer April Ferry, whose work includes the 5,000 costumes featured in the HBO series “Rome” as well as costumes for “The Big Chill,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” Donnie Darko” and “Elysium.” Longtime CDG member Sharon Day received the “Distinguished Service” award from CDG President Salvador Perez.
Actor Joshua Malina hosted the event at The Beverly Hilton, which featured several well-known presenters, including Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn, Olivia Munn, Tony Hale, Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Kiernan Shipka, James Wolk, Kathleen Robertson, Geoff Stults, Elisabeth Röhm, J. August Richards, June Squibb and Will Forte.
Presenter Raquel Welch took the stage to a standing ovation. “I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the contributions costume designers have made to our industry,” she said. “God was very generous to me, but it was the fabulous costume designers who helped me know how and where to apply the frosting.”
The evening’s winners included Suzy Benzinger, who received the “Excellence in Contemporary Film” award for “Blue Jasmine”; Patricia Norris, who received the “Excellence in Period Film” award for “12 Years a Slave”; Trish Summerville, who received the “Excellence in Fantasy Film” award for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”; Tom Broecker, who received the “Outstanding Contemporary Television Series” award for “House of Cards”; Caroline McCall, who received the “Outstanding Period/Fantasy Television Series” award for “Downton Abbey”; Ellen Mirojnick, who received the “Outstanding Made for TV Movie or Miniseries” award for “Behind the Candelabra”; and Nancy Steiner, who received the “Excellence in Commercial Costume Design” award for “Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors.”
