The winners of the Art Directors Guild‘s 26th ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards have been announced. Tamara Deverell took out Best Period Feature Film for Nightmare Alley, Patrice Vermette won Best Fantasy Feature Film for Dune, Mark Tildesley took home Best Contemporary Feature Film for No Time to Die, and Ian Gooding, Lorelay Bové earned Best Animated Feature Film for Encanto. The winner of the Academy Award for Production Design has first scored a win from the ADG for the past eight years in a row.
Director Denis Villeneuve was honoured with the William Cameron Menzies Award and Jane Campion received the Cinematic Imagery Award. Graphic designers Michael and Denise Okuda, set designer/art director Ann Harris, and concept illustrator and storyboard artist Donna Cline were all presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards. William A. Horning and Polly Platt were both inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.
Winners in bold below.
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
