Ruth E. Carter
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.
Filmography (47)
The Pickup
Sinners
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Coming 2 America
Dolemite Is My Name
Above Suspicion
Black Panther
Marshall
Kidnap
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Selma
The Best of Me
Oldboy
The Butler
Teen Beach Movie
Abduction
Imagine That
Spread
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
Black Dynamite
Meet Dave
Serenity
Four Brothers
Against the Ropes
Daddy Day Care
I Spy
Dr. Dolittle 2
Shaft
Love & Basketball
Bamboozled
Summer of Sam
Amistad
Rosewood
The Great White Hype
Money Train
Clockers
Cobb
Surviving the Game
What's Love Got to Do with It
The Meteor Man
Malcolm X
Jungle Fever
The Five Heartbeats
Mo' Better Blues
Do the Right Thing
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
