New awards honour Canadian costumers

TORONTO — The Oscar-nominated costume designer for The Shape of Water and a visionary for the clothes horses of CBC’s Schitt’s Creek are among those vying for a new award celebrating costumes in Canadian film and television.

Nominees for the inaugural Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design awards include Luis Sequeira for his big-screen work on the Cold War-era love story about a mute woman who falls in love with a sea creature. He competes in the period film category against designers for Maudie, Indian Horse and Final Vision.

Sequeira also is nominated in the contemporary film category for his work on Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles, which faces off against the wardrobe pros from other Netflix productions To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Hold The Dark, and Lifetime’s Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance.

Meanwhile, Debra Hanson of Schitt’s Creek earns a nomination for dressing a oncerich family whose designer duds are among the few remnants of their previously privileged life.

She competes in the best contemporary TV design category against Michael Ground of Citytv’s Bad Blood, Rebekka Sorensen-Kjelstrup of Netflix’s Riverdale and double-nominee Lorraine Carson for her work in Netflix’s The Exorcist and ABC Spark’s Siren. Ground is a triple nominee who is also recognized for work on CBC’s Caught and Netflix’s Frontier.

The CAFTCAD awards are set for Feb. 10 at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.

The event is run by the Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design.