Ruth E. Carter
Costume & Make-Up
Born 1960-04-10
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
73 credits
Academy Awards 2
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 won · 3 nominated
- 2023 Best Costume Design Won Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- 2019 Best Costume Design Won Black Panther
- 1998 Best Costume Design Nominated Amistad
- 1993 Best Costume Design Nominated Malcolm X
- — Best Costume Design Nominated Sinners
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Other credits
46 credits
Seinfeld
Sinners
Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Pickup
Four Brothers
Serenity
Oldboy
The Butler
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Roots
Money Train
Meet Dave
Daddy Day Care
Do the Right Thing
Malcolm X
Coming 2 America
The Best of Me
Shaft
Spread
Dr. Dolittle 2
Imagine That
I Spy
Above Suspicion
The Thomas Crown Affair
Teen Beach Movie
Jungle Fever
Marshall
What's Love Got to Do with It
Selma
Thief
Bamboozled
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Baby Boy
Clockers
Summer of Sam
Surviving the Game
Black Dynamite
The Meteor Man
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Crooklyn
The Great White Hype
Love & Basketball
Mo' Better Blues
Chi-Raq
Frankie & Alice
Acting
14 credits
The View
Tamron Hall
Cosmos
The Oscars
To Tell the Truth
Abduction
Kidnap
Abstract: The Art of Design
School Daze
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Dolemite Is My Name
Against the Ropes
Cobb
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
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