Ruth E. Carter
Costume & Make-Up
1960-04-10 · Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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
TheatersBlack Panther 3
2028 · Movie
Snoop
2027 · Movie
TheatersThe Thomas Crown Affair
2027 · Movie
The Pickup
2025 · Movie
Sinners
2025 · Movie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023 · Movie
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Movie
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022 · Movie
Coming 2 America
2021 · Movie
Dolemite Is My Name
2019 · Movie
Tamron Hall
2019 · Series
Above Suspicion
2019 · Movie
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
2018 · Series
Black Panther
2018 · Movie
Marshall
2017 · Movie
Kidnap
2017 · Movie
Abstract: The Art of Design
2017 · Series
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2016 · Movie
To Tell the Truth
2016 · Series
Roots
2016 · Series
Chi-Raq
2015 · Movie
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015 · Movie
Selma
2014 · Movie
The Best of Me
2014 · Movie
Cosmos
2014 · Series
Oldboy
2013 · Movie
The Butler
2013 · Movie
Teen Beach Movie
2013 · Movie
Sparkle
2012 · Movie
Abduction
2011 · Movie
Frankie & Alice
2010 · Movie
Black Dynamite
2009 · Movie
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
2009 · Movie
Imagine That
2009 · Movie
Spread
2009 · Movie
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
2008 · Movie
Meet Dave
2008 · Movie
Thief
2006 · Series
Serenity
2005 · Movie
Four Brothers
2005 · Movie
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Movie
Against the Ropes
2004 · Movie
Daddy Day Care
2003 · Movie
I Spy
2002 · Movie
Baby Boy
2001 · Movie
Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · Movie
Bamboozled
2000 · Movie
Shaft
2000 · Movie
Love & Basketball
2000 · Movie
Summer of Sam
1999 · Movie
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998 · Movie
Amistad
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
B.A.P.S
1997 · Movie
Rosewood
1997 · Movie
The Great White Hype
1996 · Movie
Money Train
1995 · Movie
Clockers
1995 · Movie
Cobb
1994 · Movie
Crooklyn
1994 · Movie
Surviving the Game
1994 · Movie
The Meteor Man
1993 · Movie
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 · Movie
Malcolm X
1992 · Movie
House Party 2
1991 · Movie
Jungle Fever
1991 · Movie
The Five Heartbeats
1991 · Movie
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Movie
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
1990 · Movie
Seinfeld
1989 · Series
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Movie
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988 · Movie
School Daze
1988 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series