“Nosferatu”, “Wicked” and “Conclave” have won the best awards for art directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards, which took place on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.
“Nosferatu” won in the category Periodfilm, where competitors included his colleague Oscar -nominated “The Brutalist”; “Wicked” won in Fantasy film against other nominated “Dune: Part two”, among others; And “Conclave” won the category of contemporary film film.
During the 18 years since ADG separated its prices in period, fantasy and contemporary categories, one of the guild winners has won Oscar for best production design 14 times. Seven of these awards have come from the period category, sex from the fantasy category and one from the contemporary category.
The animated functional category won by “The Wild Robot”, which continued its role through the awards ceremony.
The TV categories included winners “Squid Game”, “The Penguin”, “Fallout”, “What we do in the Shadows”, “Frasier”, “Saturday Night Live”, “Dick van Dyke: 98 years magic” and inevitably “Shōgun.”
The Music Video Award went to the design of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”, while the Apple Pay ad “Plates” won in the commercial category.
The ceremony took place at the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown Hotel and hosted the actress and comedian Rachael Harris. Even at the ceremony, director Jason Reitman received Cinematic Imagery Award, while Lifetime Achievement Awards went to the scenic artist Lisa Frazza, Setdesigner Barbara Mesney, storyboard artist Dan Sweetman and Production Designer J. Dennis Washington.
Here is the list of winners:
Feature films
Period film: “Nosferatu,” Craig Lathrop
Fantasy movie: “Wicked,” Nathan Crowley
Contemporary Feature Film: “Konklav,” Suzie Davies
Animated feature film: “The Wild Robot,“ Raymond Zibach
TV
An hour period Sing Camera Series: “Shogun”: “A of the Things”, Helen Jarlen
An hour of fantasy-one-camera series: “Fallout”: “The End”, Howard Cummings
One hour contemporary series with a camera: “Squid Game”: “Six legs,” “Ox”, Chae Kyoung-Sun
Limited series: “Penguin,” Kalina Ivanov
Half-hour single-camera series: “What we do in the shadows”: “Headhunting”, Shayne Fox
Multi-camera series: “Frasier”: “All About Eve”, Glenda Rovello
Variation or reality series: “Saturday Night Live”: Host: Ariana Grande, Musical Guest: Stevie Nicks, Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph de Tullio
Variation Special: “Dick van Dyke: 98 years of magic,” James Yarnell, Steve Morden
TV movie: “Unfrosted,” Clayton Hartley
Advertising: Apple Pay: “Plates”, François Audouy
Music Videos: Kendrick Lamar: “Not like us”, Freyja Bardell
