28th Art Directors Guild Nominations Unveiled

The nominations have been unveiled for the Art Directors Guild‘s 28th 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 ten years.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on February 10.

PERIOD FEATURE FILM

Asteroid City – Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen

Killers of the Flower Moon – Production Designer: Jack Fisk

Maestro – Production Designer: Kevin Thompson

Napoleon – Production Designer: Arthur Max

Oppenheimer – Production Designer: Ruth De Jong

FANTASY FEATURE FILM

Barbie – Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood

The Creator – Production Designer: James Clyne

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Production Designer: Beth Mickle

Poor Things – Production Designers: James Price, Shona Heath

Wonka – Production Designer: Nathan Crowley

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM

Beau is Afraid – Production Designer: Fiona Crombie

John Wick: Chapter 4 – Production Designer: Kevin Kavanaugh

The Killer – Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Production Designer: Gary Freeman

Saltburn – Production Designer: Suzie Davies

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boy and the Heron – Art Director: Yôji Takeshinge

Elemental – Production Designer: Don Shank

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Production Designer: Patrick O’Keefe

The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Production Designer: Guillaume Aretos

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – Production Designer: Yashar Kassai

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.