The Art Directors Guild announced the nominations for its 26th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories. For the purposes of this movie-themed blog, we will be taking a look specifically at the categories involving art direction in feature film.
If you’re doing research for your Oscars 2022 predictions, then you might be interested to learn that over the past five years, the winner of the ADG’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design three times: in 2018 for The Shape of Water, in 2020 for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and in 2021 for Mank. The production design Oscar went to the winner of the fantasy category in 2019, for Black Panther. And in 2017, La La Land picked up the ADG award for a contemporary film on the way to winning the Oscar for production design.
A live-in person ceremony is scheduled to be held March 5 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel. Now let’s check out the list of nominees:
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
The French Dispatch Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Licorice Pizza Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Nightmare Alley Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
The Tragedy of Macbeth Production Designer: Stefan Dechant
West Side Story Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Cruella Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Dune Production Designer: Patrice Vermette
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Production Designer: François Audouy
The Green Knight Production Designer: Jade Healy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Production Designer: Sue Chan
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Candyman Production Designer: Cara Brower
Don’t Look Up Production Designer: Clayton Hartley
In the Heights Production Designer: Nelson Coates
The Lost Daughter Production Designer: Inbal Weinberg
No Time to Die Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto Production Designers: Ian Gooding, Lorelay Bové
Luca Production Designer: Daniela Strijleva
The Mitchells vs. the Machines Production Designer: Lindsey Olivares
Raya and the Last Dragon Production Designers: Paul Felix, Mingjue Helen Chen, Cory Loftis
Sing 2 Art Director: Olivier Adam
What do you make of this year’s nominees for the Art Directors Guild Awards? Which films do you want to win and which films do you think will win? Are there any particular movies that the guild overlooked that you personally would have nominated? Sound off in the comments below and let us and the rest of the movie loving world know your thoughts!
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