25th Art Directors Guild Winners Revealed

The winners of the Art Directors Guild‘s 25th ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards have been revealed. As anticipated, Mank took out the period feature film category, Tenet won for fantasy feature film, and Soul snatched animated feature film. But there was a slight upset in the contemporary feature film category where many thought Promising Young Woman may prevail. Instead, the ADG chose Da 5 Bloods.

Winners in bold below.

PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Mank, Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Production Designer: Mark Ricker
Mulan, Production Designer: Grant Major
News of the World, Production Designer: David Crank
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Production Designer: Shane Valentino

FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Production Designer: K.K. Barrett
Pinocchio, Production Designer: Dimitri Capuani
Tenet, Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
The Midnight Sky, Production Designer: Jim Bissell
Wonder Woman 1984, Production Designer: Aline Bonetto

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM 
Da 5 Bloods, Production Designer: Wynn Thomas
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Production Designer: Molly Hughes
Palm Springs, Production Designer: Jason Kisvarday
Promising Young Woman, Production Designer: Michael T. Perry
The Prom, Production Designer: Jamie Walker McCall

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A Shawn the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Production Designer: Matt Perry
The Croods: A New Age, Production Designer: Nate Wragg
Onward, Production Designer: Noah KlocekSoul, Production Designer: Steve Pilcher
Soul, Production Designer: Steve Pilcher
Wolfwalkers, Production Designers: Ross Stewart, Tomm Moore, Maria Pareja

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.