“The prestigious art house documentary Hot Tub Time Machine.” – the Art Directors Guild ceremony’s MVP joke
The Art Directors Guild‘s 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards was held on February 10, 2024, at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom, dwelling of the Oscars Governors Ball. At Saturday night’s ceremony, hosted by actor Max Greenfield (BoJack Horseman, A Series of Unfortunate Events), style darlings Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Poor Things have been amongst these singled out for “excellence” in movement photos, tv, commercials, music, and video production. Since 2014, ADG has provided a reside stream of the awards ceremony.
With roughly 3,000 members, ADG, or IATSE Local 800, is comprised of 4 craft councils: Art Directors Council, Set Designers and Model Makers Council, Scenic Title and Graphic Artists Council, and Illustrators and Matte Artists Council. “It’s our honor and privilege to gather the guild to recognize the excellence among our members,” stated the awards’ producers Michael Allen Glover, ADG, and Megan Elizabeth Bell, ADG, in a joint assertion.
Keep studying for this yr’s winners.
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Max’s Love and Death star Lily Rabe was there to current the award within the Short Format and Music Video class.
Long-time Swiftie production designer Ethan Tobman gained for Taylor Swift‘s “I Can See You” music video. He was nominated in the category against Jason Hougaard for Apple’s “The Underdogs: Swiped Mac,” Jen Dunlap for boygenius’s “the film,” Kurt Gefke for Miley Cyrus’s “River” music video, and Brandon Mendez for the music video for “Candy Necklace,” by Lana Del Rey that includes Jon Batiste.
In the One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series class, Martin Childs was nominated for his work on the Netflix collection The Crown, which Greenfield identified was the designer’s sixth nomination, but he has by no means gained. Again, it wasn’t Childs’ yr, shedding to Francesca di Mottola for work on The Great episodes “You the People,” “Fun,” and “Peter and the Wolf.”
Also nominated within the class have been Bob Shaw for The Gilded Age episodes “His Grace the Duke,” “Close Enough to Touch,” and “Warning Shots,” Bill Groom for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel episode “Susan,” and Keith Cunningham for Perry Mason‘s “Chapter Eleven.”
Oppenheimer‘s production designer, Ruth De Jong, gained the Period Feature Film award. He was up in opposition to Asteroid City‘s Adam Stockhausen, Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Jack Fisk, Maestro‘s Kevin Thompson, and Napoleon‘s Arthur Max.
“Congratulations to Ruth De Jong on her Art Directors Guild Award win for Excellence in Production Design (Period Feature Film,” tweeted Oppenheimer‘s official account on X (previously Twitter).
Congratulations to Ruth De Jong on her Art Directors Guild Award win for Excellence in Production Design (Period Feature Film) for #Oppenheimer. pic.twitter.com/BPCzFdgCpi
— Oppenheimer (@OppenheimerFilm) February 11, 2024
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse production designer Patrick O’Keefe gained within the Animated Feature Film class. “This film really required that we change our approach to filmmaking,” O’Keefe stated in his acceptance speech, who, then, added that the movie’s animation group, which approached 1000 folks (one of many largest in historical past), actually owes its work to the unbelievable comedian artist who impressed them (to not point out who labored alongside them, designing the look of the totally different Spidey-Verses).
O’Keefe beat out Yôji Takeshige, artwork director of The Boy and the Heron; Don Shank, artwork director of Elemental; Guillaume Aretos, production designer of The Super Mario Bros. Movie; and Yashar Kassai, production designer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
The winner within the Multi-Camera Series class was Glenda Rovello for Frasier’s “Moving In,” who famous in her speech that this award is a bunch effort. Rovello gained over fellow nominees Kelly Hogan of Bunk’d for the episode “The Glitching Hour,” Francoise Cherry-Cohen for Bob Hearts Abishola’s episode “Twerk O’ Clock,” Jerry Dunn for The Conners’ episode “Road Trip and Guilt Trip,” and Greg J. Grande for That 90’s Showepisode “Free Leia.”
In ADG’s Half-Hour Single-Camera Series class, the nominees for production design excellence have been Merje Veski for The Bear episode “Omelette,” Patrick Howe for Only Murders within the Building episodes “Sitzprobe” and “Opening Night,” Ra Vincent for Our Flag Means Death episodes “Impossible Birds,” “Red Flags,” and “Man on Fire,” Brandon Tonner-Connolly for Reservation Dogs episode “Deer Lady,” and Shayne Fox for What We Do within the Shadows episode “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor.”
Tanner-Connolly took dwelling the award for “Deer Lady,” the episode that advised the story of Indigenous boarding colleges in America. Apparently, the artwork division was ravaged by a fireplace, however the crew felt the story was so vital that they pushed by means of.
The Short-Format Commercials class nominees included François Audouy (Apple: The New Macbook Pro: “Scary Fast”), Florencia Martin (Booking.com: “Somewhere, Anywhere,” The Musical), Dylan Kahn(Dom Perignon: “Lady Gaga – The Labor of Creation”), Annie Beauchamp (Giorgio Armani: “Armani Si”), and Natalie Groce (M&M’s: “Ma&Ya’s”). Excitingly, there was a tie on this class, with the primary introduced winner being Martin, adopted by Audouy.
Rhys Darby offered the ADG award for excellence in production design for a Variety Special, which Brian Stonestreet gained for the eightieth Golden Globe Awards. Fellow nominees within the class included Steve Bass for the 76th Annual Tony Awards, in addition to Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer production designer Bruce Ryan, Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas production designer Misty Buckley, and The Weeknd: Live at Sofi Stadium production designer Es Devlin.
Notably, Dave Chappelle‘s predictably transphobic recent Netflix special was nominated. While I don’t know if the particular’s production designer shares the identical beliefs as Chapelle, by now, they will need to have recognized who they have been signing on to advertise and the beliefs he espouses.
Darby additionally offered the winner within the Variety or Reality Series class. The Squid Game – The Challenge‘s “War” production designers Mathieu Weekes and Benjamin Norman took home the award, winning over History of the World, Part II production designer Monica Sotto, for episode “VIII;” Gianna Costa, RuPaul’s Drag Race production designer, for episode “Blame it on the Edit;” Cindy Chao and Michele Yu, A Black Lady Sketch Show production designers for episodes “I’m Clapping From My Puss,” “What Kind of Medicine Does Dr. King Practice?,” and “Peek-A-Boob, Your Titty’s Out;” in addition to Saturday Night Live episodes “Jenna Ortega/The 1975” and “Nate Bargatze/Foo Fighters” production design group Keith Ian Raywood, Akira Yoshimura, and N. Joseph DeTullio.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Kevin Pollak offered the award within the One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series. Nominated within the class was Fargo‘s Trevor Smith for “Trials and Tribulations,” The Morning Show’s Nelson Coates for “The Kármán Line,” “Ghost in the Machine,” and “Love Island,” Poker Face’s Judy Rhee for “Escape From Shit Mountain,” Yellowjackets’ Margot Ready for “Digestif,” in addition to Succession’s Stephen Carter, who took dwelling the award for his work on “America Decides.”
Pollak additionally offered the award for Contemporary Feature Film. Nominated within the class have been production designers Fiona Crombie for Beau is Afraid, Kevin Kavanaugh for John Wick: Chapter 4, Donald Graham Burt for The Killer, Suzie Davies for Saltburn, and Gary Freeman for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Davies, who was not in attendance, gained.
The One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series class winner was John Paino for The Last of Us episode “Infected.” Paino was given the consideration over For All Mankind‘s production designer Seth Reed for “The Bear Hug,” Loki’s Kasra Farahani for “Ouroboros,” Silo‘s Gavin Bocquet for “Machines,” and The Mandalorian‘s Doug Chiang and Andrew L. Jones for “Chapter 23: The Spies.”
GotG 3 Karen Gillan and her co-presented additionally went on to current the award for production design excellence in Television Movie or Limited Series, the place Simon Elliott was nominated for All the Light We Cannot See, Alex DiGerlando for A Murder at the End of the World, Grace Yun for Beef, Jessica Kender for Daisy Jones & The Six, and Cat Smith for Lessons in Chemistry.
Beef‘s Yun took dwelling the award on this class.
The duo additionally introduced that Poor Things production designers James Price and Shona Heath gained within the Fantasy Feature Film class. They have been nominated alongside Barbie production designer Sarah Greenwood, The Creator production designer James Clyne, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 production designer Beth Mickle, and Nathan Crowley, the production designer of Wonka.
Notable absences from the nominees on this class have been Oscar Best Picture hopefuls The Color Purple, The Holdovers, and American Fiction. However, as Variety wrote, “It’s worth noting, the guild’s track record as a precursor missed the mark last year. Babylon, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery were among the top honorees, while the Oscar went to All Quiet on the Western Front.”
ADG Lifetime Achievement Awards
Rick Carter, who beforehand acquired the award in 2014, was there to current the Illustrators and Artists Lifetime Achievement Award to David Lowery, head of storyboards for The Mandalorian. Jon Favreau, who additionally labored with Lowery on the live-action remake of The Lion King, Iron Man, and Iron Man 2, filmed a video congratulating the storyboarded and illustrator on the win, calling his storyboards “great art.”
Check out a few of Lowery’s “great” creative contributions under:
Through the STG Council, scenic artist Francine West gained ADG’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which was offered to her by her two granddaughters. West was the primary feminine scenic artist ever employed to work on movie and TV by each MGM and the NBC Television Network, in addition to the primary girl to be a Charge Artist at Grosh Scenic Studios in Hollywood, in line with an ADG LinkedIn submit asserting the consideration.
During her profession, West labored at the ABC, NBC, and CBS scenic retailers on tv reveals, together with Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, The Carol Burnett Show, and Three’s Company. She additionally labored on reside occasion applications comparable to The Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, and Super Bowl XVII.
Check out West’s work as a scenic artist under:
Starting in MGM’s mail room and now with properly over 100 movies below his belt, Greg Papalia was honored with an ADG Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as each artwork director and set designer on initiatives together with Air, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Hail, Ceasar!
The Set Designers and Model Makers Council stated in an Instagram assertion that Greg’s work and dedication to his craft have been an inspiration to us all. He has served the members, impressed future set designers, and created stunning drawings and units on many productions all through an extended profession.”
Check out Papalia’s iconic work under:
ADG’s Cinematic Imagery Award, awarded to administrators who push the boundaries of storytelling with work that “richly enhance[s] the visual aspects of the viewer’s experience,” went to the primary feminine graduate of AFI, Mimi Leder, who “broke down barriers” when being seen as an unbiased, opinionated girl may get you fired. “Leder has blazed a pathway for powerful and brilliant women off-screen,” stated award presenter Karen Pittman (The Morning Show, And Just Like That…). “[She] is a beacon for women like me.”
Leder’s most up-to-date mission is serving as government producer and director of The Morning Show, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Billy Crudup. Notably, she lately earned her tenth Emmy nomination for guiding the primary season finale of the hit Apple TV+ collection.
Previous recipients of the award embrace Baz Luhrmann, Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas.
As beforehand introduced, legendary production designer Lawrence G. Paull, who handed away in 2019, was additionally inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame as a part of the ceremony. Paul, who ultimately joined my alma mater Chapman University as its “Filmmaker in Residence,” had his breakout designing Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Check out a few of Paull’s contributions to leisure under:
When he joined ADG, production designer Wynn P. Thomas was the primary Black man to cross the examination in 25 years, making him the primary Black production designer to hitch the Guild. In 2024, he’s being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. “I’m honored to be receiving this Lifetime Achievement Award,” Thomas stated in his speech. “Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time looking back, looking back on the journey that has brought me here. Something like this doesn’t happen without community, so I would like to say thank you.”
Thomas mirrored on individuals who made enjoyable of him, saying: “But that ‘sissy’ grew up to work with some great storytellers.” (Learn extra about Thomas’ illustrious profession through THR.)
Check out Thomas’ superb storyboards under:
“Wynn P. Thomas has significantly shaped the landscape of filmmaking, and his diverse body of work reflects his innovative approach and commitment to storytelling. Beyond his artistic achievements, Thomas is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of designers. Thomas has not only broken barriers but also paved the way for future generations,” stated Evan Rhode, Art Directors Council Chair.
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