Art Director Guild Award winners: Hugo, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
FEATURE FILM
Period Film
HUGO Production Designer: Dante Ferretti
Fantasy Film
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY
HALLOWS PART 2 Production Designer: Stuart Craig
Contemporary Film
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
TV awards, after the cut.
TELEVISION
One-Hour Single Camera Television Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Television Movie or Mini-Series
MILDRED PIERCE Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series
MODERN FAMILY
Episode: Express Christmas – Production Designer: Richard Berg
Episode of a Multi-Camera, Variety, or Unscripted Series
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Episode: Host Justin Timberlake – Production Designer: Keith Ian Raywood, Eugene
And Musical Guest – Lady Gaga Lee, Leo Yoshimura,
N. Joseph De Tullio
Awards, Music, or Game Shows
83rd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Production Designer: Steve Bass
Commercials and Music Videos
ACTIVISION: CALL OF DUTY
Episode: Modern Warfare 3 – Production Designer: Neil Spisak
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Dragon Tattoo just won!!!
Didn’t Hugo also just win?
HUGO! HUGO! HUGO!
And now Potter…..all the film awards went exactly where they should. Good job ADG!
DRINKS ALL AROUND!!!
Period Film: Hugo
Fantasy Film: Harry Potter
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Hugo. S2
The Artist loses again! Yay!!!
I’m especially happy for Dante Ferretti.
I guess these awards don’t have too much influence on the Oscar for Art Direction, as I assume the whole Academy votes, rather than specialists who know what they’re actually voting for.
@PaulinJapan: So true. That is why the Academy needs a reboot.
@Mel: Isn’t it wonderful to see these 3 awards go to the most deserved?
Go “Hugo,” go!
Finally HP7.2 wins something
AWESOME
@Jerry yeah true, also it should’ve been nominated for Best Picture like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo should’ve….find it strange that there were 9 instead of 10….unless it had something to do with Harry Potter’s last film.
Here would the top 9 or 10
1. The Help
2. Hugo
3. THe Artist
4. Moneyball
5. Tree of Life
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. War Horse
9. Drive
and or 10. Midnight in Paris
art directors demonstrate good taste…. probably to no avail.
With the entire academy voting, and having the most nominations, I think this is one of Hugo’s wins on Oscar night. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took most of the technical categories.
Editing, yet again, will be the most intriguing tech award. Thelma Schoonmaker is very popular and respected, so she could win again. But with The Artist as the BP favorite, it could take this one if there’s a sweep. But I expect the award will be down between Hugo and Dragon Tattoo.
@Mel: Isn’t it wonderful to see these 3 awards go to the most deserved?
Absolutely. I am relishing this moment. So rarely do you get to feel this way about awards!
Winners are Hugo, girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Harry Potter DH2. Hugo I think deserves it. That film was like beautiful.
Man, the girl with the dragon tattoo, that film was contemporary art direction and just scenery. they had best cinematography I think.
Hugo deserves the Art direction oscar this is coming from a The Artist fan.
Just saw Hugo again last night. What a beautiful film. Totally deserved!
Hugo is a near lock to take this Oscar night. The Artist has only 2 shots at winning a tech category: editing (Moneyball deserve but it`s a tough one) and costumes (I think Hugo takes this one too as they usually handle costumes and art direction to the same film).
If i had do do a scale from the category in which The Artist has more chances from the one it has the lowest ones, it would be like this: Original Score, Picture, Directing, Editing, Actor, Costumes, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Supporting Actress.
Personally Stuart Craig deserves the Oscar. Him never winning for his iconic sets in the Potter films is an injustice.
I’m very pleased with the ADG results. They got it right. Kudos.
Hugo will probably win the Oscar . . . with all those nominations it has the guild support it needs to push it over the top . . . especially in this category.
Although my personal choice would be HP:P2 – I thought the production design by Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan was impeccable – a big part of HP’s success.
Fantasy is one of the biggest genres right now and for the Academy to ignore a fantasy film just because they “don’t like it” is shallow. It’s a great movie, well acted, great CGI and well loved. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ is the culmination of a generation and deserves some recognition. Everyone involved with the film did an excellent job and should be recognized.
@OCO300 Ur right and I’m VERY disappointed and feel that they’re just trying to make excuses now for why the series barely got noticed. The acting was amazing and so was the music, art, writing, and screenplay and no one got noticed (other than the 3 categories they got nominated for which probably wont win on purpose). Look at all the past winners and compare them to Potter, there really isn’t a difference. Avatar…Titanic..LOTR…all similar to Potter in many ways and were loved by the Oscars. It’s just sad to see Potter lose this because they deserve it more than anything.
For the record, I’d be fine with potter taking this one over Hugo (conceding that as a series effort win only because the art direction in Hugo is better than HP7.2). But I’d be sad because if Hugo loses this one early on in the night, it’s gonna be a long night for it despite having 11 nominations. Didn’t True Grit go 0/9 or 0/10 last year? Would be a shame for Hugo to go down like that.
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R.I.P Jackie Treehorn
i personally think this is when oscar bloggers should be making articles about who should win to get some of these awards truths out there. In this case the fact that the harry potter team has been nominated i think three or four times and never won for art direction. Meanwhile i believe hugos team has done other scorsese pictures and deservedly won in the past more then once. Someone could make an arguement that hp had a higher degree of difficulty doing art direction and set design for a fantasy borderline war picture. While aside from copying the period and interpriting meiles films hugo only had to design one maybe two sets as the bulk of the film is in the train station and an apartment. Hp should win this award and i think is going to be one of those upsets on oscar night. Hugo will probably only walk away with sound awards.
Why do people always have to predict upsets? When was the LAST time a real upset happened in the art direction category?
This award is USUALLY a way of honoring a film that’s popular with the Academy and that has the bait look – films such as THE AVIATOR, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON etc.
Harry Potter has no popularity with voters. It had the critical acclaim, but the precursors and the Academy ignored it. Even BAFTA didn’t care much about it. And in the end, it didn’t get a picture nod – wasn’t it supposed to have the 5% support? Come on, HUGO takes this easily.
And the Academy doesn’t care about the overdue etc in technical categories. That’s why Roger Deakins still doesn’t have an Oscar!! So the ‘Harry Potter gets art direction as a reward for the whole franchise’ is a bit premature.
OCO and club88 continue saying the same thing ove and over again. And they should already understand that harry potter never got chance to get a nomination for best picture. Why? because the movie was not good in adaptation, developing and union of the scenes. And the lightness that took the most dramatic events.
warner bros only excite the fans, making them think that the series could do. All of you have to face that hp is like narnia. And by the way, if king kong (a better movie) didnt make it, least harry potter.
HUGO WILL WIN IN THIS CATEGORY.!!!
OCO and club88
The recognition that it deserved, are the 3 nominations it got. Nothing else. The academy had not to treat to hp as a king just because hp had ended. That was what the fans wanted. But it didnt mean that it sould make true.
If the bafta didnt nominate the movie, when it is a brtish award, the fans have to think and face the true. Ad not complain.
“This award is USUALLY a way of honoring a film that’s popular with the Academy and that has the bait look – films such as THE AVIATOR, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON etc. ”
Exactly how popular “Alice in Wonderland” was compared to “Inception” last year???
When it comes to sets, art direction (and costumes), the Academy LOVES excess – the more, the grander, the most ostentatious, the better (similar to most acting choices). Hence the wins by Alice, Dick Tracy, Sweeny Todd, Moulin Rouge, and Batman.
I don’t like the trend that contemporary art directors and set designers usually get nothing at the Oscars. GWADT this year, TSN last year, No Country for Old Men a couple of years back and many more had the potential to score big at the oscars IMHO. Too bad the academy always goes apeshit for period pieces and SF/fantasy. Is say bring back the oscar voters that gave it to “All the President’s Men” over a western, a musical, a SF flick and a period piece back in the good old days.
peter and henry are clearly the same person and he doesn’t know how to speak proper fucking English! Naturally the Harry Potter series is over his head.
*and he’s probably never read the books since he appears semi-illiterate.
Scott, You do realize that English isn’t Henry’s first language right? I’m sure his grammar is good in his native language. Dont be so narrow minded.
I thought you said you were smart……
Henry, if you’re using Google translate, when typing your message in your own language, make sure your grammar is perfect, don’t use colloquial, slang, shortcuts, text/web speak, or accented letters, and then keep it simple so that the translation will be precise.
As I said before, Hugo seems like the likely winner in this category. I don’t have a problem with it winning – a large part of the film’s charm is the way it “looks” – the sets, the production design.
In a utopian world, there should be a tie as it would be heart-warming to see the production design team from Harry Potter get some recognition. Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan did an outstanding job on the last HP film.
It’s a tough call, but if I were an AMPAS member I’d probably vote for HP, with Hugo a very close second in this category.
Scorsese has had to sit through many technical category disappointments in the past (Goodfellas, Gangs of New York), but I think Hugo has a really good shot at taking technical recognition this year (editing, score, costume design, production design, sound). Someone else on this site noted Roger Deakins not winning last year for Best Cinematography for “True Grit”. Yes, to me, that was the BIGGEST SHOCK of last year!
Who knows? We could be in for even larger surprises this year. GARY OLDMAN for BEST ACTOR! I would absolutely love it if that happened.
King Kong could have been a great film. It starts really well but keeps getting worse when the end approaches. As a whole, it`s just a good blockbuster.
@peter
My IQ decreases everytime I read your shit. Good god…