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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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  1. Black Panther2018Costume Design
  2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2022Costume Design
  3. Sinners2025Costume Design
  4. Serenity2005Costume Design
  5. The Butler2013Costume Design
  6. Abduction2011Costume Designer
  7. The Best of Me2014Costume Design
  8. Four Brothers2005Costume Design
  9. Coming 2 America2021Costume Design
  10. Seinfeld1989Costume Design
  11. Selma2014Costume Design
  12. Daddy Day Care2003Costume Design
  13. Keeping Up with the Joneses2016Costume Design
  14. Oldboy2013Costume Design
  15. Do the Right Thing1989Costume Design
  16. Malcolm X1992Costume Design
  17. Dr. Dolittle 22001Costume Design
  18. Cosmos2014Costume Designer
  19. Meet Dave2008Costume Design
  20. Shaft2000Costume Design
  21. Amistad1997Costume Design
  22. Kidnap2017Costume Designer
  23. Dolemite Is My Name2019Costume Designer
  24. I Spy2002Costume Design
  25. Teen Beach Movie2013Costume Design
  26. Spread2009Costume Design
  27. Money Train1995Costume Design
  28. Black Dynamite2009Costume Design
  29. Marshall2017Costume Design
  30. Imagine That2009Costume Design
  31. Bring It On: Fight to the Finish2009Costume Designer
  32. Summer of Sam1999Costume Design
  33. The Pickup2025Costume Design
  34. Love & Basketball2000Costume Design
  35. What's Love Got to Do with It1993Costume Design
  36. Baby Boy2001Costume Design
  37. Clockers1995Costume Design
  38. Jungle Fever1991Costume Design
  39. Above Suspicion2019Costume Design
  40. Mo' Better Blues1990Costume Design
  41. Chi-Raq2015Costume Design
  42. Surviving the Game1994Costume Design
  43. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka1988Costume Design
  44. The Meteor Man1993Costume Design
  45. Roots2016Costume Design
  46. Crooklyn1994Costume Design
  47. Bamboozled2000Costume Design
  48. How Stella Got Her Groove Back1998Costume Design
  49. Against the Ropes2004Costume Designer
  50. Sparkle2012Costume Design
  51. Rosewood1997Costume Design
  52. House Party 21991Costume Designer
  53. School Daze1988Costume Designer
  54. Frankie & Alice2010Costume Design
  55. The View1997as Self
  56. The Great White Hype1996Costume Design
  57. Cobb1994Costume Designer
  58. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2023as Self