Blue Jasmine, 12 Years a Slave & Nebraska lead top costume awards nominations

The wardrobe wizards behind films like Blue Jasmine, Nebraska, 12 Years A Slave and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire have all landed nominations for the 16th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. Blue Jasmine’s Suzy Benzinger and Nebraska’s Wendy Chuck will compete with Casey Storm (Her), Consolata Boyle (Philomena) and Sarah Edwards (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) for the Excellence in Contemporary Film honour, while 12 Years a Slave’s Patricia Norris, Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle), Kurt & Bart (Dallas Buyers Club), Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby) and Daniel Orlandi (Saving Mr. Banks) are up for the Excellence in Period Film trophy.
Trish Summerville, who created to costumes for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, has landed an Excellence in Fantasy Film nod opposite Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor and Bob Buck (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) and Gary Jones and Michael Kutsche (Oz the Great and Powerful)
Among the TV series nominated: Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Nashville, Saturday Night Live, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones.
The awards will be handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on 22 February (14).