‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The Fantastic Four’ Win Big at the Art Directors Guild Awards
, and The : First Steps were the big winners at the Saturday night, winning the top three live-action in . KPop Demon Hunters landed the prize for best production design in an animated film.The three live-action films — which won in contemporary, period and fantasy categories respectively — now have a leg up for the production design award at the Oscars. though Fantastic Four may be in the strongest position: The fantasy winner has nabbed the Academy Award in three of the past four years.Meanwhile, Apple TV+ was the big winner on the television side. The streamer landed three of the top prizes, for episodes of Severance, Palm Royale and The Studio. (They won for one-hour contemporary single-camera, one-hour period single-camera, and half-hour single camera, respectively.)The ADG awards, the organization’s 30th, honor “the visionary production design teams behind the year’s most visually ambitious films, television series and music projects,” according to the organization.At a moment when human-led design is under threat by AI and computer models, the awards stand as a kind of rebuttal for what machines can’t do. “The event underscored the vital role production designers and art directors play in shaping cinematic storytelling and immersive environments that define today’s most celebrated films and television series,” the ADG said in a statement.Below is a complete list of winners:PERIOD FEATURE FILM FrankensteinProduction Designer: Tamara DeverellFANTASY FEATURE FILM The Fantastic Four: First StepsProduction Designer: Kasra Farahani CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM One Battle After AnotherProduction Designer: Florencia MartinANIMATED FEATURE FILM Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich ***TELEVISION NOMINEES*** ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES 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 ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES Monster: The Ed Gein StoryProduction Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson HALF-HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES The Studio: “The Note”Production Designer: Julie Berghoff MULTI-CAMERA SERIES Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George”Production Designer: Glenda Rovello VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host”Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti VARIETY SPECIAL SNL50: The Anniversary SpecialProduction Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio COMMERCIALS Prada: “Galleria Bag”Production Designer: Florencia Martin SHORT FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEOS Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancelation”Production Designer: Shane Valentino
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