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Jeffrey Kurland, whose amazing costumes for Inception that I love and picspammed the hell out of, lost out in the contemporary film category of the Costume Designer Guild Awards to Amy Westcott of Black Swan.

And I'd so gotten my hopes up. I totally thought that the CDG, the only institution to recognise Kurland's work with a nomination, would also give him the award. I was like: "Yep, everyone else is blind to these absolutely fantastic costumes, but it's ok, Kurland's peers will get it. They will see the effort and the skill and the creativity that went into these costumes. They will understand what "bespoke" means and will be suitably impressed that almost every item of clothing the main characters wear was made specifically for this film. He will win."

This would sting less if Black Swan deserved it but in my opinion it doesn't. It seems I'm not the only one cynical enough to think that Amy Westcott was given the award - at least in part - as a sign of guild solidarity after the controversy involving the designers from Rodarte claiming more credit than they deserved for their involvement with the film.