Ruth E. Carter
b. 1960 · 58 titles in the catalogue
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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Their work
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Black Panther2018Costume Design
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2022Costume Design
Sinners2025Costume Design
Serenity2005Costume Design
The Butler2013Costume Design
Abduction2011Costume Designer
The Best of Me2014Costume Design
Four Brothers2005Costume Design
Coming 2 America2021Costume Design
Seinfeld1989Costume Design
Selma2014Costume Design
Daddy Day Care2003Costume Design
Keeping Up with the Joneses2016Costume Design
Oldboy2013Costume Design
Do the Right Thing1989Costume Design
Malcolm X1992Costume Design
Dr. Dolittle 22001Costume Design
Cosmos2014Costume Designer
Meet Dave2008Costume Design
Shaft2000Costume Design
Amistad1997Costume Design
Kidnap2017Costume Designer
Dolemite Is My Name2019Costume Designer
I Spy2002Costume Design
Teen Beach Movie2013Costume Design
Spread2009Costume Design
Money Train1995Costume Design
Black Dynamite2009Costume Design
Marshall2017Costume Design
Imagine That2009Costume Design
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish2009Costume Designer
Summer of Sam1999Costume Design
The Pickup2025Costume Design
Love & Basketball2000Costume Design
What's Love Got to Do with It1993Costume Design
Baby Boy2001Costume Design
Clockers1995Costume Design
Jungle Fever1991Costume Design
Above Suspicion2019Costume Design
Mo' Better Blues1990Costume Design
Chi-Raq2015Costume Design
Surviving the Game1994Costume Design
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka1988Costume Design
The Meteor Man1993Costume Design
Roots2016Costume Design
Crooklyn1994Costume Design
Bamboozled2000Costume Design
How Stella Got Her Groove Back1998Costume Design
Against the Ropes2004Costume Designer
Sparkle2012Costume Design
Rosewood1997Costume Design
House Party 21991Costume Designer
School Daze1988Costume Designer
Frankie & Alice2010Costume Design
The View1997as Self
The Great White Hype1996Costume Design
Cobb1994Costume Designer
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2023as Self
