
Art directors guild awards: ‘poor things,’ ‘oppenheimer’ & ‘saltburn’ take top film prizes – winners list
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_Poor Things, Oppenheimer_ and _Saltburn_ took top film honors at the 28th annual Art Directors Guild Awards tonight. _The Neighborhood _and _New Girl _actor Max Greenfield hosted the show
from Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Check out the full winners list below. _Oppenheimer_‘s Ruth De Jong and _Poor Things’_ James Price and Shona Heath will face off for Best
Production Design at the Academy Awards next month. They’ll go up against the production designers and set decorators behind _Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon _and _Napoleon._ The Art
Directors Guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories, which went to _Poor Things, Oppenheimer_ and _Saltburn_, respectively. Since the trophy
show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, when
_All Quiet on the Western Front _scored the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded _Everything Everywhere All at Once_ (Fantasy), _Babylon _(Period) and _Glass Onion: A Knives Out
Mystery_ (Contemporary). WATCH ON DEADLINE TV winners include the production design teams behind _Beef, Succession, Frasier, Reservation Dogs, The Great, Squid Game: The Challenge _and the
80th Golden Globe Awards. The motion picture awards kicked off with De Jong taking the Period Feature Film for Universal’s _Oppenheimer_. In an emotional acceptance speech, she noted that
the team built a replica of Los Alamos in the desert in just eight weeks and thanked director Christopher Nolan for making a “perfect film.” The Contemporary Feature Film prize went to Suzie
Davis for Amazon MGM Studios’ _Saltburn. _She was not at the ceremony to accept. Patrick O’Keefe took the Animated Feature Film prize for Sony’s _Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse._ He
shouted out to the “visionaries” who brought the pic to life. Art director Dean Gordon said from the stage that the _Across the Spider-Verse _featured “the largest animation crew ever,
approaching a thousand people.” On the TV side, Grace Yun won the Television Movie or Limited Series prize for Netflix’s _Beef, _and John Paino took the One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series
award for HBO’s_ The Last of Us_. The night’s first TV prize, for One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series, went to Francesca di Mottola for Hulu’s_ The Great._ The award for One-Hour Period
Single-Camera Series later went to Stephen Carter for HBO’s now-wrapped Emmy juggernaut _Succession_. Glenda Rovello took the ADG’s Multi-Camera Series award for Paramount+’s rebooted
_Frasier_. Brandon Tonner-Connolly followed up with the Half-Hour Single-Camera Series prize for FX’s now-wrapped _Reservation Dogs._ Mathieu Weekes and Benjamin Norman won the Variety or
Reality Series prize for Netflix’s _Squid Game: The Challenge_, and Brian Stonestreet later won Variety Special for the 80th Golden Globe Awards on NBC. The first statuette of the night,
for Short Format and Music Videos went to Ethan Tobman and Miren Marañón for Taylor Swift’s “I Can See You” video. Later there was a tie in the Commercials category, with Florencia Martin
and François Audouy winning for their respective ads for Booking.com and Apple. _The Morning Show _director and producer and two-time _ER _Emmy winner Mimi Leder received ADG’s 2024
Cinematic Imagery Award. The group presented a quartet of career honors to _Jurassic Park _and _Iron Man _franchise storyboard artist David Lowery, _Planet of the Apes _franchise and
_Godzilla vs. Kong _set designer Greg Papalia, longtime Spike Lee and _Mars Attacks! _production designer Wynn P. Thomas and _The Affair_ and _The Wire _scenic artist Francine West. The
late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a _Blade Runner _Oscar nominee whose credits also include _Back to the Future _and _Romancing the Stone,_ was inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame
during the ceremony. Established in 1937, the Art Directors Guild — IATSE Local 800 — represents 3,300 members who work in film, TV and theater as production designers and art directors;
scenic, title and graphic artists; set designers and model makers; illustrators and matte artists. Here are the winners at the 2024 ADG Awards for Excellence in Production Design: FANTASY
FEATURE FILM Poor Things Production Designers: James Price, Shona Heath TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES Beef Production Designer: Grace Yun ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES| The Last
of Us: “Infected” Production Designer: John Paino CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM Saltburn Production Designer: Suzie Davies ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES Succession: “America
Decides” Production Designer: Stephen Carter VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES Squid Game: The Challenge: “War” Production Designers: Mathieu Weekes, Benjamin Norman VARIETY SPECIAL 80th Golden
Globe Awards Production Designer: Brian Stonestreet COMMERCIALS (Tie) Booking.com: “Somewhere, Anywhere,” The Musical Production Designer: Florencia Martin Apple: The New Macbook Pro: “Scary
Fast” Production Designer: François Audouy HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES Reservation Dogs: “Deer Lady” Production Designer: Brandon Tonner-Connolly MULTI-CAMERA SERIES Frasier: “Moving In”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Production Designer: Patrick O’Keefe PERIOD FEATURE FILM Oppenheimer Production Designer: Ruth
De Jong ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES The Great: “You the People,” “Fun,” “Peter and the Wolf” Production Designer: Francesca di Mottola SHORT FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEOS Taylor Swift:
“I Can See You” Production Designer: Ethan Tobman, Miren Marañón