27th Art Directors Guild Nominations Unveiled

The nominations have been unveiled for the Art Directors Guild‘s 27th ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards. The awards are seen as a strong indicator for the eventual winner of Best Production Design at the Academy Awards, given the winner of one of the three ADG categories has won the Oscar every year for the past nine years.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on February 18.

PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Christian M. Goldbeck, All Quiet on the Western Front
Florencia Martin, Babylon
Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, Elvis
Rick Carter, The Fabelmans
Jess Gonchor, White Noise

FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, Avatar: The Way of Water
James Chinlund, The Batman
Hannah Beachler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jason Kisvarday, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ruth De Jong, Nope

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM 
Eugenio Caballero, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
David Scheunemann, Bullet Train
Rick Heinrichs, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Marco Bittner Rosser, TÁR
Jeremy Hindle, Top Gun: Maverick

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Guy Davis and Curt Enderle, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Tim Evatt, Lightyear
Liz Toonkel, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Nate Wragg, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Rona Liu, Turning Red

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.