Age: 66
female
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.
Ruth E. Carter
Costume Designer
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In a world teetering on the brink of destruction, the powerful alien creature known as The Destroyer has declared his intention to annihilate Earth. With superheroes either out of reach or unwilling to risk their lives, humanity turns to an unlikely savior: Londyn Richmond, the enigmatic and calculating director of the Civic Intelligence Unit (CIU). But Richmond’s plan isn’t to recruit heroes—it’s to assemble the world’s most dangerous and unpredictable villains. Led by the morally ambiguous extraterrestrial fairy Ryen Szell, the team includes the icy and isolated Ellie Marshall, aka Frost, the cursed botanist Joel Green, aka Professor Crabgrass, the pragmatic hitman Otto Black, the conflicted teenage werewolf Nicholas Woods, the chaotic demon Vorgoth Shawcross, and the fiery Roman warrior Tiberius Cervianus. Together, they are the Corrupt Hellbent Acquaintances of the Sinister—or C.H.A.O.S. Thrown together by circumstance and united only by their mutual disdain for authority, the group must overcome their mistrust and inner demons to face The Destroyer. As they enter battle, their agendas, past traumas, and simmering rivalries threaten to tear them apart. In this high-stakes, action-packed spectacle, C.H.A.O.S. will discover that sometimes, the world’s worst nightmares are its only hope. But can they rise above their villainous natures to save the Earth—or will they embrace the destruction they were born to cause?
