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All of this year’s best films and television shows wouldn’t be the same without the glorious settings in which they take place. Every year, the Art Directors Guild Awards honor this work, or the best in production design in films, television, commercials, music videos, and animated features.
The awards, which are in their 24th year, were held Saturday in Los Angeles. From Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, to Game of Thrones and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, several of the year’s biggest hits were nominated for top honors. Ultimately, Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Avengers: Endgame nabbed top honors for feature films. In television, the production designers of Maisel, Russian Doll, and The Umbrella Academy were some of the key winners.
On the film side, the ADG Awards are broken up by genre: period, fantasy, or contemporary (the television categories are broken up a little differently). Despite this, the ADG Awards can tell us a bit about what might win the corresponding Oscar for Best Production Design, which is not broken up by genre. This year’s nominees in that category are The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Parasite.
When it comes to winning the Academy Award for Best Production Design, over the last 10 years the winner of an ADG film honor has won the Oscar eight times, including three fantasy category winners (Avatar, Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Panther), four period film winners (Hugo, The Great Gatsby, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water), and one contemporary film winner (La La Land). So, all in all, one of the winners from tonight’s ADG Awards is likely (although not guaranteed) to repeat at the Oscars.
It should be noted, though, that in the last 30 years, only one Best Production Design winner at the Oscars went to a non-fantasy film set in the present day: La La Land (2016). So chances are, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is probably the more likely winner, but anything could happen.
See below for the full list of winners.
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PERIOD FILM
Ford v Ferrari
Production Designer: François Audouy
The Irishman
Production Designer: Bob Shaw
Jojo Rabbit
Production Designer: Ra Vincent
Joker
Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
1917
Production Designer: Dennis Gassner
WINNER: Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood
Production Designer: Barbara Ling
FANTASY FILM
Ad Astra
Production Designer: Kevin Thompson
Aladdin
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
WINNER: Avengers: Endgame
Production Designer: Charles Wood
Dumbo
Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Production Designer: Patrick Tatopoulos
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Production Designers: Rick Carter, Kevin Jenkins
CONTEMPORARY FILM
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Production Designer: Jade Healy
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Production Designer: Kevin Kavanaugh
Knives Out
Production Designer: David Crank
WINNER: Parasite
Production Designer: Lee Ha-Jun
Us
Production Designer: Ruth De Jong
ANIMATED FILM
Abominable
Production Designer: Max Boas
Frozen II
Production Designer: Michael Giaimo, Co-Production Designer: Lisa Keene
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Production Designer: Pierre-Olivier Vincent
The Lion King
Production Designer: James Chinlund
WINNER: Toy Story 4
Production Designer: Bob Pauley
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ONE-HOUR PERIOD OR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
A Series of Unfortunate Events: “Penultimate Peril: Part 1”
Production Designer: Bo Welch
The Crown: “Aberfan”
Production Designer: Martin Childs
Game of Thrones: “The Bells”
Production Designer: Deborah Riley
The Mandalorian: “Chapter One”
Production Designer: Andrew L. Jones
WINNER: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: “Ep. 305, Ep. 308”
Production Designer: Bill Groom
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Big Little Lies: “What Have They Done?,” “The Bad Mother,” “I Want to Know”
Production Designer: John Paino
The Boys: “The Female of the Species”
Production Designer: Dave Blass
Euphoria: “The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed,” “And Salt the Earth Behind You”
Production Designer: Kay Lee
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Mayday”
Production Designer: Elisabeth Williams
WINNER: The Umbrella Academy: “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”
Production Designer: Mark Worthington
TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Black Mirror: “Striking Vipers”
Production Designer: Annie Beauchamp
Catch-22
Production Designer: David Gropman
WINNER: Chernobyl
Production Designer: Luke Hull
Deadwood: The Movie
Production Designer: Maria Caso
Fosse/Verdon
Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Barry: “ronny/lily”
Production Designer: Tyler B. Robinson
Fleabag: “Ep. 5”
Production Designer: Jonathan Paul Green
GLOW: “Up, Up, Up”
Production Designer: Todd Fjelsted
The Good Place: “Employee of the Bearimy,” “Help Is Other People”
Production Designer: Ian Phillips
WINNER: Russian Doll: “Nothing in This World is Easy”
Production Designer: Michael Bricker
MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
WINNER: The Big Bang Theory: “The Stockholm Syndrome,” “The Conference Valuation,” “The Propagation Proposition”
Production Designer: John Shaffner
The Cool Kids: “Vegas, Baby!”
Production Designer: Stephan Olson
Family Reunion: “Remember Black Elvis?”
Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter
No Good Nick: “The Italian Job”
Production Designer: Kristan Andrews
Will & Grace: “Family, Trip,” “The Things We Do for Love,” “Conscious Coupling”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
SHORT FORMAT: WEB SERIES, MUSIC VIDEO OR COMMERCIAL
Apple: “It’s Tough Out There”
Production Designer: Quito Cooksey
Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey: “Don’t Call Me Angel”
Production Designer: Emma Fairley
WINNER: MedMen: “The New Normal”
Production Designer: James Chinlund
Portal from Facebook: “A Very Muppet Portal Launch”
Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
Taylor Swift: “Lover”
Production Designer: Kurt Gefke
VARIETY, REALITY OR EVENT SPECIAL
WINNER: Drunk History: “Are You Afraid of the Drunk?”
Production Designer: Monica Sotto
91st Oscars
Production Designer: David Korins
Rent: Live
Production Designer: Jason Sherwood
Saturday Night Live: “1764 Emma Stone,” “1762 Sandra Oh,” “1760 John Mulaney”
Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio, Eugene Lee
Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour
Production Designers: Tamlyn Wright, Baz Halpin
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