Apparently the Costume Desingers Guild is announcing nominations tomoorrow as well. That flew under my radar. Here's a quick look:

COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD (CDG) Predictions

Contemporary:
"Casino Royale," Lindy Hemming
"The Devil Wears Prada," Patricia Field
"For Your Consideration," Durinda Wood
"Miami Vice," Michael Kaplan, Janty Yates
"A Prairie Home Companion," Catherine Marie Thomas

(alt. "The Queen," Consolata Boyle)

Period:
"The Black Dahlia," Jenny Beaven
"Bobby," Julie Weiss
"Dreamgirls," Sharen Davis
"The Good German," Louise Frogley
"Marie Antoinette," Milena Canonero
(alt. "Ask the Dust," Albert Wolsky)

Fantasy:
"Eragon," Kym Barrett, Carlo Pogliotti
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," Penny Rose
"Superman Returns," Louise Mingenbach
"V for Vendetta," Sammy Sheldon
"X-Men: The Last Stand," Judianna Makovsky
(alt. "The Fountain," Renée April)

This guild is pretty unpredictable. Even the most respected and multi-Oscar-nominated designers can have a rought time with the CDG. Witness vets like Sandy Powell who just don't dominate like you think they might. Ultimately, I think you're looking at a list of nominees from the sampling above, but anything from "Nacho Libre" to "The Pink Panther" could show up and catch us off guard.

I'm also predicting five nominees in each category, but either area could easily end up with only four films in contention.

A quick note on "The Illusionist" and "The Prestige": I'm 99.99% sure Ngila Dickson and/or Joan Bergin (most likely the former) will show up here and quite possibly at the Oscars for their work on those films. (Dickson also has "Blood Diamond" in play, which should be taken into consideration.) But I'm also not sure whether the guild is going to get all crazy on us and consider these two films "fantasy" films as opposed to what they are, "period" films. So, we'll see how it plays out, but for the sake of not driving myself insane, I've refrained from declaring a category prediction for either.

WGA forecast still to come...