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Ruth E. Carter
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Ruth E. Carter (born April 10, 1960) is an American costume designer for film and television. She is best known for her collaborations with Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Ryan Coo…
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Ruth E. Carter (born April 10, 1960) is an American costume designer for film and television. She is best known for her collaborations with Spike Lee, John Singleton, and Ryan Coogler. During her film career, Carter has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Lee's biographical film Malcolm X (1992), Steven Spielberg's historical drama film Amistad (1997), and won twice for Coogler's Marvel superhero films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022); becoming the first African-American to win and be nominated for Best Costume Design. She was nominated for a fifth time for her work in Coogler's Sinners (2025), breaking the record for most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history. Her other film credits include Do the Right Thing(1989), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Love & Basketball (2000), Serenity (2005), The Butler (2013), Selma (2014), Marshall (2017), Dolemite Is My Name (2019), and Coming 2 America (2021). She also received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Period Costumes for a Limited Series for her work on the 2016 miniseries Roots. Carter is the recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Costume Designers Guild Awards, in addition to receiving two competitive awards from the organisation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth E. Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2028
Black Panther 3
Movie Costume Design
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2027
Snoop
Movie Costume Design
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2027
The Thomas Crown Affair
Movie Costume Design
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2025
The Pickup
Movie Costume Design
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2025
Sinners
Movie Costume Design
- 2023
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Costume Design
- 2022
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2021
Coming 2 America
Movie Costume Design
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2019
Dolemite Is My Name
Movie Costume Designer
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Above Suspicion
Movie Costume Design
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2018
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
TV show Self
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2018
Black Panther
Movie Costume Design
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2017
Marshall
Movie Costume Design
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2017
Kidnap
Movie Costume Designer
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2017
Abstract: The Art of Design
TV show Self
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2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Movie Costume Design
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2016
To Tell the Truth
TV show Self - Costume Designer for Black Panther
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2016
Roots
TV show Costume Design
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2015
Chi-Raq
Movie Costume Design
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2015
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Movie Costume Design
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2014
Selma
Movie Costume Design
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2014
The Best of Me
Movie Costume Design
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2014
Cosmos
TV show Costume Designer
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2013
Oldboy
Movie Costume Design
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2013
The Butler
Movie Costume Design
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2013
Teen Beach Movie
Movie Costume Design
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2012
Sparkle
Movie Costume Design
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2011
Abduction
Movie Costume Designer
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2010
Frankie & Alice
Movie Costume Design
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2009
Black Dynamite
Movie Costume Design
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2009
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
Movie Costume Designer
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2009
Imagine That
Movie Costume Design
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2009
Spread
Movie Costume Design
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2008
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Movie Self
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2008
Meet Dave
Movie Costume Design
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2006
Thief
TV show Costume Design
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2005
Serenity
Movie Costume Design
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2005
Four Brothers
Movie Costume Design
