2023 ADG Awards winners: Babylon, EEAAO, Glass Onion

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) honored winners in 14 categories at the 27th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 18 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown Hotel. Theatrical films, television films, commercials, music videos and animated films were awarded with the prize.

All five Academy Award nominees for Best Production Design — “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Babylon,” “Elvis” and “The Fabelmans” — were also ADG nominees, and “Babylon” production designer Florencia Martin took home the period feature award.

Fantasy Feature Film went to production designer Jason Kisvarday for Everything Everywhere All at once, and Contemporary Feature Film went to production designer Rick Heinrichs for The Onion: Mystery of the Knives, who were not nominated by the Academy. The technical and artistic performance of “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” continued its impressive guild performance with production designers Guy Davis and Curt Enderle winning the ADG for Best Animated Feature, while Guillermo del Toro himself was honored with the William Cameron Menzies Award. celebrates his visually striking and emotionally rich work.”

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While the other four Oscar-nominated production designers competing with Florencia Martin (“Babylon”) for the Oscar did not win tonight, “Elvis” production designer Catherine Martin and director Baz Luhrmann received the Cinematic Imagery Award, which is awarded annually by the ADG. to a filmmaker “whose work in the film and television industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the viewer experience.” The award was presented to the husband-wife duo by “Moulin Rouge” and “Australia” co-star Nicole Kidman.

TV nominees include “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” “Cutting,” “Our Flag Means Death,” “How I Met Your Father” and “Pachinko.” he also took home top prizes.

Below is the full list of nominees for the 14 ADG categories, along with tonight’s winners Brave.

FEATURE FILM CANDIDATES:

PERIOD VEHICLE FILM
“All Quiet on the Western Front”: Designed by Christian M. Goldbeck
“Babylon”: Production Designer: Florencia Martin (WINNER)
“Elvis”: Production Designers: Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy
“The Fabelmans”: Production Designer: Rick Carter
“White Noise”: Production Designer: Jess Gonchor

FANTASY GAME MOVIE
Avatar: The Way of Water: Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter
“The Batman”: Production Designer: James Chinlund
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”: Production Designer: Hannah Beachler
“Everything Everywhere at Once”: Production Designer: Jason Kisvarday (WINNER)
“No”: Production Designer: Ruth De Jong

CONTEMPORARY GAME FILM
“Bardo, the false chronicle of a handful of truths”: Production Designer: Eugenio Caballero
“Bullet Train”: Production Designer: David Scheunemann
“The Onion: Mystery of the Knives”: Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs (WINNER)
“Repository”: Production designer: Marco Bittner Rosser
“Top Gun: Maverick”: Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle

ANIMATED GAME FILM
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Production Designers: Guy Davis, Curt Enderle (WINNER)
“Lightyear”: Production Designer: Tim Evatt
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes”: Production Designer: Liz Toonkel
“Puss In Boots: The Last Wish”: Production Designer: Nate Wragg
“Turning Red”: Production Designer: Rona Liu

CANDIDATES FOR TELEVISION:

ONE HOUR PERIOD ONE CAMERA SERIES
“The Crown”: “Ipatiev House” (Production Designer: Martin Childs)
“The Gilded Age”: “Never the New” (Production Designer: Bob Shaw)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”: “Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest”, “How to Get to Carnegie Hall?” (Production Designer: Bill Groom)
“Pachinko”: “Chapter One” (Production Designer: Mara LePere-Schloop) (WINNER)
“Peaky Blinders”: “Black Day” (Production Designer: Nicole Northridge)

ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Andor”: “Rix Road” (Production Designer: Luke Hull)
“House of the Dragon”: “The Heirs of the Dragon” (Production Designer: Jim Clay)
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”: “Adar” (Production Designer: Ramsey Avery) (WINNER)
“Stranger Things”: “Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab” (Production Designer: Chris Trujillo)
“Wednesday”: “Alas for the Loneliest Number” (Production Designer: Mark Scruton)

ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Better Call Saul”: “Wine and Roses”, “Nippy” (Production Designer: Denise Pizzini
“Euphoria”: “You who cannot see, think of those who see”, “The theater and its double”, “All my life my heart has longed for something that I cannot name” (Production designer: Jason Baldwin Stewart)
Ozark: The Beginning of the End, Let the Great World Spin, City on the Make (Production Designer: David Bomba)
“Execution”: “Good News from Hell” (Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle) (WINNER)
“The White Lotus”: “Ciao” (Production Designer: Cristina Onori)

TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
“Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities”: Production Designer: Tamara Deverell (WINNER)
“Moon Knight”: Production Designer: Stefania Cella
“Obi-Wan Kenobi”: Production Designers: Todd Cherniawsky, Doug Chiang
“Pinocchio”: Production Designer: Doug Chiang, Stefan Dechant
“Station 11”: Production Designer: Ruth Ammon

HALF HOUR SINGLE CAMERA SERIES
“Emily in Paris”: “What it’s all about…” “How to Lose a Designer in 10 Days” (Production Designer: Anne Seibel)
“Hacks”: “Trust the Process” (Production Designer: Alec Contestabile
“Only Murders in the Building”: “Framed” (Production Designer: Patrick Howe)
‘Our Flag Means Death’: ‘Pilot’ (Production Designer: Ra Vincent) (WINNER)
“What We Do in the Shadows”: “The Grand Opening”, “The Night Market”, “Pine Barrens” (Production Designer: Shayne Fox)

MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
“Bob Hearts Abishola”: “Inner Boss Bitch”, “Two Rusty Tractors”, “Estee Lauder and Goat Meat” (Production Designer: Francoise Cherry-Cohen)
“The Conners”: “Sex, Lies and House Hunting”, “Best Laid Plans, a Contrabassoon and a Sinking Feeling”: Production Designer: Jerry Dunn
“How I Met Your Father”: “Pilot” (Production Designer: Glenda Rovello) (WINNER)
“The Neighborhood”: “Welcome to Remodel” (Production Designer: Wendell Johnson)
“United States of Al”: “Kiss/Maach”, “Divorce/Talaq”, “Sock/Jeraab” (Production Designer: Daren Janes)

VARIETY, REALITY OR COMPETITION SERIES
“The Black Lady Sketch Show”: “Anybody Got Something I Can Whip Myself With?”, “Bounce Them Coochies, Y’all!”, “Peaches and Eggplants for Errbody!” (Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michelle Yu)
“Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” by “HBCYOU Band” (Production Designer: James McGowan)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”: “Catwalk,” “60’s Girl Groups,” “Daytona Wind” (Production Designer: Gianna Costa)
“Saturday Night Live”: “Jack Harlow Hosts Season 48 Episode 4, Jack Harlow Musical Guest” (Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio) (WINNER)
“Gafri + Mochi’s Restaurant”: “Honey” (Production Designer: Darcy E. Prevost)

KIND OF SPECIAL
64th Annual Grammy Awards: Supervising Artistic Director: Kristen Merlino
94th Academy Awards: Production Designer: David Korins (WINNER)
Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Fool: Production Designer: Scott Pask
Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party: Production Designer: Keith Raywood
“Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would”: Production Designer: Star Theodos Kahn

ADVERTISING
“American Horror Story”: “Doll’s House” Promotion (Production Designer: Marc Benacerraf)
Bud Light Seltzer: “Land Of Loud Flavors”: Production Designer: François Audouy
Just Eat & Katy Perry: “Did Somebody Say” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”: “Title Announcement” (Production Designer: Brian Branstetter) (WINNER)
Paramount+: “Wildlife Promo” (Production Designer: Maia Javan)

SHORT FORMAT: MUSIC VIDEO OR WEB SERIES
Adele ‘I Drink Wine’ (Production Designer: Liam Moore) (WINNER)
Coldplay x Selena Gomez “Let Somebody Go” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
Kendrick Lamar “Rich Spirit” (Production Designer: Scott Falconer)
Taylor Swift “Anti-Ho” (Production Designer: Ethan Tobman)
Taylor Swift “Bejeweled” Production Designer: Ethan Tobman

Founded in 1937, the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) represents 3,200 members who work as production designers and art directors in film, television and theater worldwide; Stage, title and graphic artists; Set Designers and Model Makers; illustrators and matte artists. ADG’s ongoing activities include the Film Society screening series, the annual ‘Excellence in Production Design Awards’, the bimonthly craft magazine ‘PERSPECTIVE’, figure drawing and other creative workshops, extensive technology and craft training programmes.

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