The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, this category and Outstanding Period Costumes were created. They replaced the now retired categories of Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series.
Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five nominees will be limited series/movies.
Winners and nominations
2010s
2020s
Designers with multiple awards
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.
2 awards
Programs with multiple awards
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.
2 awards
Designers with multiple nominations
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.
11 nominations
- Shelly Levine
- Loree Parral
8 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
- Michelle Cole
- Lori DeLapp
- Bill Hargate
- Allyson B. Fanger
- Patrick R. Norris
4 nominations
3 nominations
- Marisa Aboitiz
- Karen Bellamy
- Heidi Bivens
- Alex Bovaird
- Molly Harris Campbell
- Shawn Holly Cookson
- Brenda Cooper
- Dana Covarrubias
- L. Paul Dafelmair
- Kathleen Felix-Hager
- Terry Gordon
- Anne Hartley
- Bob Mackie
- Bridget Ostersehite
- Lauren Press
- Marie Schley
- Brian Sprouse
- Marti M. Squyres
- Rebecca Weinberg
2 nominations
- Danielle Baker
- Steffany Bernstein-Pratt
- Adina Bucur
- Michelle Carr
- Eduardo Castro
- Michael R. Chapman
- Darci Cheyne
- Kevin Draves
- Lori Eskowitz
- Elizabeth Feldbauer
- Dan Frank
- Alix Friedberg
- Abby Geoghegan
- Kathleen Gerlach
- Laura Goldsmith
- Kristine Haag
- Artie Hach
- Luellyn Harper
- Debra Hanson
- Leslie Herman
- Daniele Hollywood
- Helen Huang
- Mary Lane
- Daniel Lawson
- Michelle Matland
- Marilyn Matthews
- Jill Ohanneson
- Heather Pain
- Claire Parkinson
- Lily Parkinson
- Angel Peart
- Melina Root
- Linda Serijan
- Jerry Skeels
- Wendy Stephanelli
- Rachael Stanley
- Travilla
- Patricia Trujillo
- Angelina Vitto
- Mary Walbridge
- Kim Wilcox
- Eilish Zebrasky
Programs with multiple nominations
This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series.
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
Notes
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