The 30th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards Winners

LOS ANGELES — The Art Directors Guild celebrated 30 years as it honored production design across 13 categories that include film, TV, commercials, music videos and shorts.

The guild said the ceremony honored the artists who design the “environments where stories come to life.” Winners were announced Saturday during a ceremony at the InterContinental in downtown Los Angeles.

This year, the guild honored Rep. Laura Friedman with the President’s Award for her advocacy of state and federal tax incentives that aim to support union jobs in the entertainment industry.

“Congresswoman Friedman’s advocacy has been resolute, securing California tax incentives and recently co-authoring a bill with Sen. Adam Schiff for a much-needed federal tax incentive,” the ADG said in a statement.

Also, being honored Saturday night with the ADG’s Cinematic Imagery Award is “Wicked,” “Wicked: For Good” director Jon M. Chu. The award is given to a filmmaker whose body of work has significantly enriched the visual experience of storytelling and elevated the visibility of the art department.

“I share this honor with the countless craftspeople who poured their hearts into those worlds (Oz), and I am deeply grateful to the Art Directors Guild and its members for this recognition,” Chu said.

Chu’s upcoming project as director is the highly anticipated biopic for Britney Spears, based on her memoir “The Woman in Me” with Universal.

Among those who presented Saturday night were Samba Schutte, Atsuko Okatsuka, Frank Grillo, Christopher Gorhman, and Awkwafina, among others.

Below are the nominees and winners (in bold) in each of the categories:  

Feature Film

Period Feature Film

Fantasy Feature Film

• Avatar: Fire and Ash Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
• Mickey 17 Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
• Superman Production Designer: Beth Mickle
• Wicked: For Good Production Designer: Nathan Crowley

Contemporary Feature Film

• Bugonia Production Designer: James Price
• F1 Production Designers: Ben Munro, Mark Tildesley
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Production Designer: Gary Freeman
• One Battle After Another Production Designer: Florencia Martin
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs

Animated Film

• The Bad Guys 2 Production Designer: Luc Desmarchelier
• Elio Production Designer: Harley Jessup
• KPop Demon Hunters Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
• The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Production Designer: Sean Haworth, Animation Production Designer: Pablo R. Mayer
• Zootopia 2 Production Designer: Cory Loftis

Television

One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series

• The Gilded Age: “If You Want to Cook an Omelette” Production Designer: Bob Shaw
• House of Guinness: “Episode 101” Production Designers: Richard Bullock
• IT: Welcome to Derry “The Black Spot” Production Designer: Paul Austerberry
• 1923 “Wrap Thee in Terror” Production Designers: Cary White, Lisa Ward
• Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martini’s Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve” Production Designer: Jon Carlos

One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series

• Andor: “Who Are You?” Production Designer: Luke Hull
• Alien: Earth: “Neverland” Production Designer: Andy Nicholson
• The Last of Us: “Day One” Production Designer: Don MacAulay
• Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Sorcerer” Production Designer: Chris Trujillo
• Wednesday: “Chapter Four – If These Woes Could Talk” Production Designer: Mark Scruton

One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series

• Pluribus: “Grenade” Production Designer: Denise Pizzini
• Severance: “Chikhai Bardo” Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
• Slow Horses: “Incommunicado,” “Tall Tales” Production Designer: Choi Ho Man
• The Pitt: “7:00 A.M.” Production Designer: Nina Ruscio
• The White Lotus: “Amor Fati” Production Designer: Cristina Onori

Television Movie or Limited Series

• Adolescence Production Designer: Adam Tomlinson
• Black Mirror: “USS Callister: Into Infinity” Production Designer: Miranda Jones Black Rabbit Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
• Death By Lightning Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
• Monster: The Ed Gein Story Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson

Half Hour Single-Camera Series

• The Bear: “Bears” Production Designer: Merje Veski
• Hacks: “A Slippery Slope” Production Designer: Rob Tokarz
• Murderbot: “FreeCommerce” Production Designer: Sue Chan
• Only Murders in the Building: “The House Always…” Production Designer: Patrick Howe
• The Studio: “The Note” Production Designer: Julie Berghoff

Multi-Camera Series

• Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George” Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
• Mid-Century Modern: “Love Thy Neighbor” Production Designer: Greg J. Grande
• Poppa’s House: “Baby Girl,” “Magic Shine Again” Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter
• Vampirina: Teenage Vampire: “First Nightmare” Production Designer: Maggie Ruder
• Wizards Beyond Waverly Place: “The Wizard at the End of the World Part II” Production Designer: Kelly Hogan

Variety or Reality Series

• Dancing with the Stars: “Wicked Night” Production Designer: James Yarnell
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!: “Jimmy Kimmel Live Brooklyn” Production Designer: David Ellis
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “Kids Pitch” Production Designers: Jim Fenhagen, Larry Hartman
• Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host” Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti
• Squid Game: The Challenge “Catch” Production Designers: Mathieu Weekes, Ben Norman

Variety Special

• Atsuko Okatsuka: Father Production Designer: Gary Kordan
• Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful Production Designer: David Meyer
• 78th Annual Tony Awards with Host Cynthia Erivo Production Designer: Steve Bass
• SNL 50: The Anniversary Special Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
• Wicked: One Wonderful Night Production Designer: Misty Buckley

Commercials

• Andersen: “Trust Your Home to Andersen” Production Designer: Natalie Groce
• Prada: “Galleria Bag” Production Designer: Florencia Martin
• State Farm “Batman vs Bateman” Production Designer: David Skinner
• Target – “Step into the Holidays” Production Designer: Nelson Coates
• Xbox: ROG Xbox Ally – “Dancing in the Dark – Launch Trailer” Production Designer: Florencia Martin

Short Format & Music Videos

• Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancelation” Production Designer: Shane Valentino
• Coldplay: “All My Love” Production Designer: Florencia Martin
• Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra” Production Designer: Wesley Goodrich
• Sabrina Carpenter: “Tears” Production Designer: Brittany Porter
• Taylor Swift: “The Fate of Ophelia” Production Designer: Ethan Tobman

The Arts Director Guild represents over 3,000 artists. Saturday’s ceremony was produced by Megan Elizabeth Bell, Michael Allen Glover, and Tom Wilkins.