Star Wars: Ahsoka Won an Emmy for Its Outstanding Costumes

The 2024 Creative Arts Emmys finished handing retired trophies past night—the Primetime Emmys ceremonial is coming up September 15—and Star Wars: Ahsoka took the prize for Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes, beating retired a brace of Marvel shows (Loki, Echo) arsenic good arsenic the jumpsuits of Fallout and the vampire frills of What We Do successful the Shadows. It’s not the archetypal Emmy triumph for a Star Wars series, but it whitethorn beryllium the astir bittersweet, coming arsenic a posthumous tribute to late costume decorator Shawna Trpcic.

The Emmy was specifically for Ahsoka‘s play finale, “The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord,” which was besides maybe, perchance the bid finale (a 2nd play has yet to beryllium officially announced). The grant was shared by Trpcic, adjunct costume decorator Elissa Alcala, and costume supervisor Devon Patterson. Ahsoka was besides nominated for Special VFX, Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hairstyling, Prosthetic Make-up, and Sound Editing, though the archetypal 3 ended up going to Shōgun and the last to The Bear.

Trpcic had antecedently been nominated for her enactment connected The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett; her decease successful October 2023 came not agelong aft Ahsoka‘s archetypal play wrapped connected Disney+. In the still-active GoFundMe shared connected behalf of her children, a biography paying tribute to Trpcic’s vocation and talents noted her drawstring of credits connected Joss Whedon projects (including diagnostic movie Cabin successful the Woods and cult-beloved TV bid Firefly), but particularly her peculiar affection for each things Star Wars:

“Shawna was astir known for her tremendous contributions to Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s shows successful the Star Wars Universe. She designed aggregate seasons of The Mandalorian, arsenic good arsenic The Book of Boba Fett and astir precocious Ahsoka, which earned her the champion notices of her career. She loved collaborating with Jon and Dave, who were the imagination squad for her, on with moving with the actors and with her immense costume plan team. To location each of her creations, Lucasfilm established a warehouse that held thousands of her costumes from each the shows … she won the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence successful Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television for The Book of Boba Fett. A staple astatine each Star Wars Celebration, Shawna loved interacting with the fans and would often justice the cosplay competitions.” The tribute besides notes that she “was ever into subject fabrication and comic books.”

The authoritative Ahsoka X relationship paid tribute to the show’s Emmy win:

Congratulations to the formed and unit of #Ahsoka connected their Creative Arts Emmy® Awards triumph for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes! #Emmys pic.twitter.com/gLZhRwhg7H

— Ahsoka (@ahsokaofficial) September 9, 2024

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