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Ruth E. Carter

  • Costume Designer
  • Costume and Wardrobe Department
  • Producer
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Ruth E. Carter
Da'Vine Joy Randolph describes how she fell to the ground and starting crying on the set of 'Dolemite Is My Name' when she learned that Oscar winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter was creating her looks for the movie. Her co-star Tituss Burgess shares his feelings as well.
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Ms. Carter won an Oscar for Costume Design for Black Panther, making history as the first African-American. A 3-time Academy Award nominee also for Malcom X and Amistad, she has 50 feature film credits including Do the Right Thing, The Butler, Selma, and Marshall and received the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Career Achievement Award.
BornApril 10, 1960
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  • Won 1 Oscar

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Brocolli costume design by Ruth E. Carter for "Daddy Day Care".
Ruth E. Carter
Original costume design from "What's Love Got To Do With It" by Ruth E. Carter.
Ruth E. Carter received an Oscar nomination for her costume designs for "Amistad".
Ruth E. Carter received an Oscar nomination for her costume designs for "Malcolm X".
Ruth Carter's original skirt and top design for Beyonce Knowles for Pepsi.
Original costume design from "I Spy" by Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter, Ryan Coogler, and Winston Duke in Black Panther (2018)
Angela Bassett and Ruth E. Carter at an event for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter

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Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Tenoch Huerta, Alex Livinalli, Letitia Wright, Mabel Cadena, and Winston Duke in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
7.1
  • Costume Designer
  • 2022
Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, and Letitia Wright in Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther
7.3
  • Costume Designer(as Ruth Carter)
  • 2018
Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Tituss Burgess, Toni Duclottni, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Dolemite Is My Name
7.2
  • Costume Designer
  • 2019
Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X
7.7
  • Costume Designer(as Ruth Carter)
  • 1992

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Costume Designer

  • Blade
    • Pre-production
  • Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Tenoch Huerta, Alex Livinalli, Letitia Wright, Mabel Cadena, and Winston Duke in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Nondumiso Tembe in Thoughts Are Things (2022)
    Thoughts Are Things
  • James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, Paul Bates, Shari Headley, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Clint Smith, Akiley Love, Bella Murphy, Jermaine Fowler, Teyana Taylor, Rotimi, Nomzamo Mbatha, and KiKi Layne in Coming 2 America (2021)
    Coming 2 America
  • Designing Hollywood (2020)
    Designing Hollywood
  • Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
    Cosmos: Possible Worlds
  • Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Tituss Burgess, Toni Duclottni, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
    Dolemite Is My Name
  • Johnny Knoxville, Jack Huston, Karl Glusman, and Emilia Clarke in Above Suspicion (2019)
    Above Suspicion
    • (as Ruth Carter)
  • Kevin Costner in Yellowstone (2018)
    Yellowstone
    • (as Ruth Carter)
  • Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, and Letitia Wright in Black Panther (2018)
    Black Panther
    • (as Ruth Carter)
  • Chadwick Boseman in Marshall (2017)
    Marshall
    • (as Ruth Carter)
  • Halle Berry in Kidnap (2017)
    Kidnap
  • Isla Fisher, Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, and Gal Gadot in Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
    Keeping Up with the Joneses
  • Malachi Kirby in Roots (2016)
    Roots
  • Chi-Raq (2015)
    Chi-Raq
  • David Oyelowo in Selma (2014)
    Selma

Costume Department

  • Devolution of Man
  • Alfre Woodard in Down in the Delta (1998)
    Down in the Delta
    • (as Ruth Carter)
  • Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Producer

  • Nondumiso Tembe in Thoughts Are Things (2022)
    Thoughts Are Things
  • The Family Man (1979)
    The Family Man
    • (as Ruth Carter)
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How Ruth E. Carter Made the 'Dolemite' Cast Look Fly
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How Ruth E. Carter Made the 'Dolemite' Cast Look Fly
Ruth E. Carter Dishes on Dressing the ‘Black Panther’ Cast
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Ruth E. Carter Dishes on Dressing the ‘Black Panther’ Cast

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    • April 10, 1960
    • Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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    First African-American to win an Academy Award in the Best Costume Design category for Black Panther (2018) (Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles / 24 February 2019).
    • Frequently works with Spike Lee and John Singleton since she served as costume designer for Lee's second film: School Daze (1988), and for Singleton's fourth film: Rosewood (1997).

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