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Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were annual British literary prizes for writers living in the UK or Ireland, awarded from 1971 until 2021.
Costa Coffee
Costa Coffee, British coffeehouse chain founded 1971 in London by Sergio and Bruno Costa, known for its Mocha Italia blend; owned by Coca-Cola since 2019; overtaken by Greggs in 2026 as the UK's largest branded coffee operator.
Costa Cordalis
Costa Cordalis, born Konstantinos Kordalis, was a Greek-born Schlager singer who moved to Germany, scored his biggest hit with "Anita" in 1976, and died on Mallorca in 2019.
Costa Titch
Costa Titch (Costantinos Tsobanoglou, 1995–2023) was a South African rapper, singer-songwriter, and dancer who fused amapiano with hip hop and trap, known for the hit "Big Flexa".
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (Konstantinos Gavras, born 1933), Greek-born naturalized French director of political thrillers Z, State of Siege, and Missing; Palme d'Or and two Academy Awards, credited with inventing the political thriller genre.
Costao
Costao is a 2025 Hindi biographical crime drama on ZEE5, directed by Sejal Shah, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Goa customs officer Costao Fernandes, who seized 15,000 kg of smuggled gold in 1991.
Costas Mandylor (Κώστας Θεοδοσόπουλος)
Costas Mandylor (Κώστας Θεοδοσόπουλος, born 1965, Melbourne) is an Australian actor of Greek descent, known as Detective Mark Hoffman in the Saw films and Officer Kenny Lacos on Picket Fences; former professional soccer player.
Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American membership warehouse club retailer headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, operating 928 warehouses worldwide in 2026 and selling brand-name goods at low prices.
Costermonger
A costermonger, also coster or costardmonger, was a British street seller of fruit, vegetables, and often fish from a barrow or cart, named after the medieval costard apple.
Costumbrismo
Costumbrismo is a literary genre, and related tendency in painting, that flourished in Spain and Spanish America in the 19th century, portraying social customs in brief sketches.
Costume
Costume: special dress worn to portray a character, animal, or figure at costume parties (US), fancy dress parties (UK), masquerades, and Halloween; covers history, competitions, and museum study.
Costume design
Costume design creates clothing for performers in theater, film, and television to communicate character, period, and status; distinct from fashion design, it spans script analysis, research, construction, and aging, with figures like Edith Head and institutions like UCLA's Copley Center.
Costume design award records and statistics
Comparative records and statistics for costume design awards across the Oscars, BAFTA, the Tonys, and the CDGAs, led by Edith Head's 8 Oscar wins from 35 nominations.
Costume designer
Costume designer: also costume department head, costume design. The professional who designs, sources, builds, and fits all garments and accessories worn by performers in theater, film, TV, and opera, from script research to continuity and budget. Distinguished from fashion design by serving character and story.
Costume Designers Guild Awards
The Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGA), given since 1999, are annual peer honors from the Costume Designers Guild recognizing costume design in film, television, and short-form work.
Costume Institute
The Costume Institute is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's curatorial department for historic and fashionable dress, holding more than 33,000 objects spanning seven centuries and funded by the Met Gala.
Cosy Dens
Cosy Dens (Pelíšky) is a 1999 Czech tragicomedy by Jan Hřebejk, based on Petr Šabach's Hovno hoří, about two feuding families sharing a Prague villa from Christmas 1967 to the 1968 Soviet occupation; a national favorite with over one million Czech admissions.
Cote de Pablo
Cote de Pablo (María José de Pablo Fernández, born 1979, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-American actress who played Mossad officer Ziva David on NCIS (2005-2013, returns in 2019) and stars in and executive produces NCIS: Tony & Ziva (2025).
Côtes du Rhône AOC
Côtes du Rhône AOC, the regional appellation of France's Rhône Valley recognized in 1937, covering 172 communes and 26,777 ha, producing mostly red blends from 27 permitted grape varieties.
Cotija cheese
Cotija cheese (queso Cotija), also called queso añejo, is a hard, salty, raw-milk Mexican cow's-milk cheese from the Sierra de Jalmich between Michoacán and Jalisco, aged months to a year, grated over elote and beans, protected by the 2005 collective mark and norm NMX-F-735-COFOCALEC-2011.
Cotillion
The cotillion is a choreographed square dance for four couples that arose in France in the early 18th century and was superseded by the quadrille around 1815.
Cottage cheese
Cottage cheese: a fresh, unripened acid-coagulated soft cheese of washed curd particles (3–12 mm), often cream-dressed; named in 19th-century North America (Bartlett 1848), distinct from ricotta and quark.
Cottingley Fairies
Cottingley Fairies: five 1917–1920 photographs by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths at Cottingley, Yorkshire, endorsed by Arthur Conan Doyle; admitted 1983 as paper cut-outs on hatpins, with Frances claiming the fifth was genuine.
Cotton candy
Cotton candy, also called candy floss or fairy floss, is a spun-sugar confection of fine amorphous sugar threads, invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton and popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Cotton Club
Cotton Club, Harlem nightclub (1920–1940), also called Club Deluxe, owned by Owney Madden; featured Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway for whites-only audiences before its 1936 move to West 48th Street.
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem, also known as Chester Himes's 1965 novel's 1970 screen adaptation, is Ossie Davis's comedy about Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson chasing $87,000 hidden in a bale of cotton; an early blaxploitation hit.
Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex song)
"Cotton Eye Joe" is a 1994 Eurodance hit by Sweden's Rednex, adapting the pre-Civil War American folk song "Cotton-Eyed Joe"; it topped charts in 15 countries, went gold in the US, and remains a party and sports staple.
Cotton Fever
Cotton Fever is Daniel Blake Schwartz's 2026 debut feature drama about interconnected lives in addiction and recovery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, starring Kyle Gallner and Sosie Bacon; it won Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best Cinematography at the 2026 Tribeca Festival.
Cotton Mill Girl
Cotton Mill Girl is a 1908 photograph by Lewis Hine showing young spinner Sadie Pfeiffer in a South Carolina cotton mill, an iconic child-labor image.
Cotton Weary
Cotton Weary, the Scream trilogy character played by Liev Schreiber: wrongly convicted of Maureen Prescott's murder, exonerated, fame-seeker who saves Sidney in Scream 2 and dies in Scream 3's opening.