Costume Designer Guild Nominations

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Period Film)
Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran
Argo- Jacqueline West
Les Miserables- Paco Delgado
Lincoln- Joanna Johnston
Moonrise Kingdom- Kasia Walicka-Maimone

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Contemporary Film)
Beasts of the Southern Wild- Stephani Lewis
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel- Louise Stjernsward
Silver Linings Playbook- Mark Bridges
Skyfall- Jany Temime
Zero Dark Thirty- George L. Littl

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Fantasy Film)
Cloud Atlas- Kym Barrett & Pierre-Yves Gayraud
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey- Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor & Bob Buck
The Hunger Games- Judianna Makovsky
Mirror Mirror- Eiko Ishioka
Snow White & the Huntsman- Colleen Atwood

Costume Designer Guild Awards

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Period Feature)
W.E.- Arianne Phillips

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Contemporary Feature)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Trish Sumerville

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Fantasy Feature)
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2- Jany Temime

Costume Design Guild Nominations

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Period Film)
The Artist- Mark Bridges
Jane Eyre- Michael O'Connor
The Help- Sharon Davis
Hugo- Sandy Powell
W.E.- Arianne Phillips

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Fantasy Film)
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2- Janey Temime
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides- Penny Rose
Red Riding Hood- Cindy Evans
Thor- Alexandra Byrne
X-Men: First Class- Sammy Sheldon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (Contemporary Film)
Bridesmaids- Leesa Evans & Christine Wada
The Descendants- Wendy Chuck
Drive- Erin Benach
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Trish Summerville
Melancholia- Manon Rasmussen

Melancholia received a guild nomination-- WOOHOO!

Costume Designers Guild Winners

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

PERIOD FILM: The King's Speech- Jenny Beaven
CONTEMPORARY FILM: Black Swan- Amy Westcott
FANTASY FILM: Alice in Wonderland- Colleen Atwood

For what will the Academy prefer: the understated costuming in the years top contender, the over the top, more is more (which they typically prefer in tech categories) for a Tim Burton flick (which they typically prefer in tech categories: see Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd), or the densely crafted, character specific designs in a film wrongfully snubbed! (Write-in campaign for Black Swan!)  Stupid Rodarte controversy...

Costume Designers Guild Nominations

CONTEMPORARY FILM
Black Swan- Amy Westcott
Burlesque- Michael Kaplan
Inception- Jeffrey Kurland
The Social Network- Jacqueline West
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps- Ellen Mirojnick

PERIOD FILM
The Fighter- Mark Bridges
The King's Speech- Jenny Beaven
True Grit- Mary Zophres

FANTASY FILM
Alice in Wonderland- Colleen Atwood
The Tempest- Sandy Powell
TRON: Legacy- Christine Bieselin Clark & Michael Wilkinson

Kind of the strange year for costume design, since really only Alice in Wonderland, and maybe The Tempest count as pure baity, eye candy films in this category.  I'm sure The King's Speech will get nominated, but that's very subdued period, not the flashy, Oscar-endorsed more is more type of film.  Burlesque, you might just be an 2-time Oscar nominee this year...eat that up Razzie Awards!

Costume Designer Guild Nominations

FANTASY FILM

• Avatar- Mayes C. Rubeo & Deborah Lynn Scott
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus- Monique Prudhomme
• Star Trek- Michael Kaplan

CONTEMPORARY FILM

• (500) Days of Summer- Hope Hanafin
• Bruno- Jason Alper
• Crazy Heart- Doug Hall
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire- Marina Draghici
• Up in the Air- Danny Glicker

PERIOD FILM

• Coco Before Chanel- Catherine Leterrier
• Julie & Julia- Ann Roth
• Nine- Colleen Atwood
• Sherlock Holmes- Jenny Beavan
• The Young Victoria- Sandy Powell

snubbed and potentially doomed from any Oscar nominations: Bright Star, also rather surprised Inglorious Basterds missed the mark, but maybe category confusion was the problem, was it period or fantasy?