Costume Designers Guild to Honor Meryl Streep & Jeffrey Kurland

Deadline reports that The Costume Designers Guild will honor costume designer Jeffrey Kurland with the Career Achievement Award and Meryl Streep with the Distinguished Collaborator Award at the 19th CDG Awards. The event is scheduled to take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 21st.

Kurland has designed costumes for fifteen Woody Allen films. His work can also be seen in such films as Erin Brokovich, Ocean's Eleven and Inception. For the past eight years he has created and produced the Academy's Governors Ball and currently serves as VP of AMPAS. He was Oscar-nominated for Bullets Over Broadway in 1995 and received a BAFTA in 1988 for Radio Days.

Streep is the recipient of three Academy Awards and has received a record 19 nominations. The Distinguished Collaborator Award honors "individuals who demonstrate unwavering support of costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers." Past recipients have included Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, and Helen Mirren.

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