Costume designers honor the best from this year’s movies and TV shows

Amy Adams, who was honored with the Lacoste Spotlight Award at the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, wears a backless emerald green floor-length gown with white floral embroidery details at the waist and shoulder, custom designed for her by friend and costume designer Kristin Burke.  (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for CDG)

Actress Olivia Munn attends the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards.  (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press)

Presenter Jonah Hill attends the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards. He told gala attendees that his appreciation of costume designers -- and their hard work -- predates his acting career. “My mom was a costume designer on sitcoms,” he said, “like ‘Taxi,’ ‘Dear John’ and ‘Evening Shade.’”  (David Buchan / Getty Images for CDG)

Presenter Mindy Kaling (“The Mindy Project”) attends the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards in an azure one-shoulder gown with a flowing train custom-designed by her date for the event, Salvador Perez. In addition to being the costume designer on Kaling’s show, Perez also happens to be the current president of the Costume Designers Guild IATSE Local 892. “Mindy can carry off color like nobody else,” Perez said of his inspiration for the gown, “so I thought I would pick a color no one would wear. Then, acknowledging the similarly hued gown worn by Olivia Munn at a nearby table, he added with a laugh: “I was obviously wrong!”  (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for CDG)

Presenter Raquel Welch, a stunner in a sparkling sequined dress, recounted some of her career-launching costumes -- including the fur bikini from “One Million Years B.C.” and a borrowed “Guys and Dolls” costume (from the “Pet Me Poppa” musical number) -- and summed up her experiences with the observation: “You should never underestimate the power of a killer costume.”  (Jason Kempin / Getty Images for CDG)

Presenter Jeremy Renner (“American Hustle”) attends the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards wearing a navy, one-button, peak-lapel tuxedo, shirt, and bowtie by Ermenegildo Zegna Couture.  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

April Ferry wins a Career Achievement Award for her work as a costume designer at the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards. “I started my career zipping up the Golddiggers on the ‘Dean Martin Show’,” Ferry said. “Then I worked with Bette Midler on ‘The Rose,’ and ‘The Big Chill’ as my first movie as a costume designer.” Her most recent film, “Robocop,” is currently in theaters. “This industry has been good to me,” she said.  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

At the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, actors Tony Hale, left, and Olivia Munn, right, present an award to costume designer Suzy Benzinger for her work on the film “Blue Jasmine.” Benzinger said her work on “Blue Jasmine” included spending a lot of time digging through various luxury brands’ archives at all hours of the day. “We almost got locked in at Fendi one night,” she said. “They forgot we were there.”  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

At the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, costume designer Trish Summerville wins the award for Excellence in Fantasy Film for her costumes in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” Summerville, who said Saturday had been the last day of a 108-day film shoot, offered up a special thanks: “To my wife, who puts up with a lot of [expletive].”   (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for CDG)

At the 16th Csotume Designers Guild Awards, costume designer Tom Broecker wins for his work on the Netflix series “House of Cards.”  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

At the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, costume designer Caroline McCall won an award for her work on the television series “Downton Abbey.”  (Jason Kempin / Getty Images for CDG)

At the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick wins an award for her work on HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra.” Mirojnick’s thanks extended to the “Candelabra” cast “that allowed us to bedazzle them every day.”  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

At the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, costume designer Nancy Steiner wins an award for her commercial work on “Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors.” She told the crowd that all the costumes “were pulled together in five days.”  (Jerod Harris / Getty Images)

When he took the stage to accept the distinguished collaborator award at the 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards, Judd Apatow said he’d broken one of the buttons on his John Varvatos tuxedo shirt before the gala and had tried to glue the button back together with nail polish before abandoning it altogether. “So that’s why I’m not wearing a tuxedo shirt and why I need costume designers,” he said during his remarks.  (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for CDG)