RT DIRECTORS GUILD ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS
FOR 24th ANNUAL ADG EXCELLENCE IN
PRODUCTION DESIGN AWARDS
Awards Ceremony to Take Place at
The InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, February 1, 2020
There is a TIE resulting in six nominees in the following two categories:
PERIOD FILM and FANTASY FILM
HOLLYWOOD, December 9, 2019– The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 24th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features. Winners will be honored at the 2020 Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on Saturday, February 1, 2020. Today’s announcement was made by Art Directors Guild President Nelson Coates, ADG, and Awards Producer Scott Moses, ADG.
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM:
1. PERIOD FILM
Ford v Ferrari, Production Designer: François Audouy
The Irishman, Production Designer: Bob Shaw
Jojo Rabbit, Production Designer: Ra Vincent
Joker, Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
1917, Production Designer: Dennis Gassner
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Production Designer: Barbara Ling
2. FANTASY FILM
Ad Astra, Production Designer: Kevin Thompson
Aladdin, Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Avengers: Endgame, Production Designer: Charles Wood
Dumbo, Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Production Designer: Patrick Tatopoulos
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Production Designers: Rick Carter, Kevin Jenkins
3. CONTEMPORARY FILM
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Production Designer: Jade Healy
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Production Designer: Kevin Kavanaugh
Knives Out, Production Designer: David Crank
Parasite, Production Designer: Lee Ha-Jun
Us, Production Designer: Ruth De Jong
4. ANIMATED FILM
Abominable, Production Designer: Max Boas
Frozen II, Production Designer: Michael Giaimo
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Production Designer: Pierre-Olivier Vincent
The Lion King, Production Designer: James Chinlund
Toy Story 4, Production Designer: Bob Pauley
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR TELEVISION ARE:
5. ONE-HOUR PERIOD OR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
A Series of Unfortunate Events: “Penultimate Peril: Part 1”, Production Designer: Bo Welch
The Crown: “Aberfan”, Production Designer: Martin Childs
Game of Thrones: “The Bells”, Production Designer: Deborah Riley
The Mandalorian: “Chapter One”, Production Designer: Andrew L. Jones
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: “Ep. 305, Ep. 308”, Production Designer: Bill Groom
6. ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Big Little Lies: “What Have They Done?” “The Bad Mother,” “I Want to Know”, Production Designer: John Paino
The Boys: “The Female of the Species”, Production Designer: Dave Blass
Euphoria: “The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed,” “And Salt the Earth Behind You”, Production Designer: Kay Lee
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Mayday”, Production Designer: Elizabeth Williams
The Umbrella Academy: “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and
Funerals”, Production Designer: Mark Worthington
7. TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Black Mirror: “Striking Vipers”, Production Designer: Anne Beauchamp
Catch-22, Production Designer: David Gropman
Chernobyl, Production Designer: Luke Hull
Deadwood, Production Designer: Maria Caso
Fosse/Verdon, Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
8. HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Barry: “ronny/lily”, Production Designer: Tyler B. Robinson
Fleabag: “Ep. 5”, Production Designer: Jonathan Paul Green
GLOW: “Up, Up, Up”, Production Designer: Todd Fjelsted
The Good Place: “Employee of the Bearimy,” “Help Is Other People”, Production Designer: Ian Phillips
Russian Doll: “Nothing in This World is Easy”, Production Designer: Michael Bricker
9. MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
The Big Bang Theory: “The Stockholm Syndrome,” “The Conference
Valuation,” “The Propagation Proposition”, Production Designer: John Shaffner
The Cool Kids: “Vegas, Baby!”, Production Designer: Stephan Olson
Family Reunion: “Remember Black Elvis?”, Production Designer: Aiyanna Trotter
No Good Nick: “The Italian Job”, Production Designer: Kristan Andrews
Will & Grace: “Family, Trip,” “The Things We Do for Love,” “Conscious
Coupling”, Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
10. SHORT FORMAT: WEB SERIES, MUSIC VIDEO OR COMMERCIAL
Apple: “It’s Tough Out There”, Production Designer: Quito Cooksey
Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey: “Don’t Call Me Angel”, Production Designer: Emma Fairley
MedMen: “The New Normal”, Production Designer: James Chinlund
Portal for Facebook: “A Very Muppet Portal Launch”, Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
Taylor Swift: “Lover”, Production Designer: Kurt Gefke
11. VARIETY, REALITY OR EVENT SPECIAL
Drunk History: “Are You Afraid of the Drunk?”, Production Designer: Monica Sotto
91st Oscars, Production Designer: David Korins
Rent: Live, Production Designer: Jason Sherwood
Saturday Night Live: “1764 Emma Stone,” “1762 Sandra Oh,” “1760 John
Mulaney”, Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Akira Yoshimura, Joe DeTullio,
Eugene Lee
Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour, Production Designers: Tamlyn Wright, Baz Halpin
How do The Boys, Umbrella Academy, and Handmaid’s Tale (though I suppose the latter is arguable) count as contemporary rather than fantasy? Even if they’re set in contemporary times, they’re pretty much parallel worlds to what we actually live in.
Love the TV nominees!
Marriage Story snub here us a surprise. LW not going well either
I like MARRIAGE STORY quite a bit but there’s nothing special about it’s art direction… LW missing is a bigger hit since that’s one of the categories where those types of films are often included… It looks especially bad here given that it couldn’t even make it in with genre/time period categories separated.
On a day where the Globes disrespected broadcast TV and shut them out for the first time ever, at least The Good Place scored big here and with two of their best episodes.
I’m sorry but have they even seen the Rise of Skywalker or are they nominating based on a trailer?
Anyway no big snubs – basically everything I’d expect to make it in here did, except little woman, which is now on a goering downward trajectory after the globes. I kinda expected that though. While inner bubble critics lived it, it appears that people who watch it don’t seem to.
Oh and I just realised no Two Popes, didn’t they have to recreate a lot of the Vatican for that? That’s a reasonably big snub!
And no I don’t consider Downton Abbey a snub because I don’t think it’s in the conversation at all.
Was there a TROS industry screening, perhaps?
Maybe there were, I just didn’t think there had been
The world premiere is the 17th, so I guess there’s a review embargo until then.
I’d imagine they were allowed to submit a reel or designs for Star Wars
It’s not like the Star Wars films don’t always have amazing art direction.
Oh absolutely, I was just quasimodo whether they’d actually seen it
Little Women, Downtown Abbey and Cats are in huge trouble. Last movie to get production design nom without ADG is Mr. Turner (2014)
I didn’t even notice CATS not getting in… AD is pretty much the only category (besides song) it had going for it IMO… Too much odd green screen maybe.
The sets in Downton Abbey were horrible?
Good for Joker, Jojo Rabbit and Knives Out, they keep popping out (almost) everywhere. As well as Parasite, The Irishman and OUATIH.
Bad day for Little Women but it can still recover with SAG and other guilds.
Also, I hope guilds keep FvF alive after underperforming at GG. I would like it to get a BP nomination at the Oscars, even if its just a filler one.
that’s my only hope for FvF..if the guilds embrace it and vote for it…I honestly don’t think its hard to get 200 votes at the Oscars.
Speaking strictly from a point of view regarding production design, I found the art direction and set design for the Rebel Wilson comedy “Isn’t It Romantic”l and the recent tug-at-the-strings comedy “Last Christmas” to be awards-worthy. Fantastic work. The production design helped realize the stories and create the atmosphere of the films. Both should definitely have been listed here. “Dumbo” may have been disappointing, but in this category the film deserves a nod.
Ehrlich’s video is out:
https://vimeo.com/378176559
this video is such a cringe…ehrlich is so far up his a$$. He thinks his opinions are ultimate truth and its just pathetic. Clearly this video looks more like “check this movies out or admire this movie because I am telling you to” than a tribute
Isn’t stating one’s own opinions the point of a best of the year list?
tribute has to do more with showing how much you love certain movies than shoving certain movies down people’s throat. Siding with the ultimate troll ehrlich is not a business I wanna be in. Choose who you side with wisely. That guy is a can of worms you don’t wanna open.
Are you sure it’s not a case of him showing his love of certain movies but since you don’t love the movies he does, you feel like he’s shoving them down your throat? Because what exactly is the way that one can “shove movies down someone else’s throat” by editing little videos of those movies and choosing a song to play them to? What method can one use to achieve that?
you are still going with this huh ? look at his history and it says a lot about him.
pay attention everybody. braylon/sidveryvic/kashay is going to preach to us about ‘reputation.’
I’m just interested in how a video tribute honoring someone’s favorite films of the year can do those things you describe it as doing. Or should I just change my opinion of this because you say it’s a certain way without giving any reason?
I can’t believe I have to defend that D.Ehrlich is a POS troll. I thought it is trivial by now.
Do you want me to pull up some of the sick racist remarks you made about Black Panther that got you banned here before?
Then we can compare and decide who is the worst racist PoS troll.
You even got yourself banned from Twitter.
okay..in the nominations tally bar on the right side..you missed a star for ford v ferrari for Critics Choice nominee..it should have 4 but it only has 3
I have no problem with you thinking that (I don’t really care about what someone thinks about any critic’s attitude) but that has nothing to do with the thing you mentioned about this video being shoving movies down people’s throats, which was my main point of interest in your comment and the part that I think I asked you about
The biggest miss here by far is Missing Link on Animated…
Oscars
1917
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Parasite
Alt: Jojo
Right!? Crazy.
Knives Out has a chance, but only as much as Jojo probably.
Star Wars? How?
Star Wars always has impressive production design.
Star Wars has never reappeared in Production Design at the Oscars since the first film won in early ’78.
Just from the trailer I think Knives Out has a hell of a shot at the oscar nod
Nice seeing AVENGERS and AD ASTRA too! I missed that category the first glance.
I’d say it’s deserving. But many good options this year.
First guild, right? So, btwn this and GG so far:
OUATIH
Irishman
Parasite
Joker
1917
…are 3/3 with Pic, Director, plus Guild
2/3 (no Director but Picture):
Knives Out
Jojo Rabbit
If you add in Screenplay:
4/4
OUATIH
Irishman
Parasite
3/4
1917
Joker
2/4
Knives Out
Marriage Story
Jojo Rabbit
Two Popes
Those 9 seem in decent shape so far.
I think make up and hair announced already.
Thanks!!
With Hair and Makeup, if my tracking is right then (Of GG Best Pic, GG Best Director, GG Best Screenplay, Art Directors Guild, Hair and Makeup Guild):
5/5:
OUATIH
Irishman
4/5:
Parasite
Joker
3/5
1917 (Not sure this was screened in time for hair/makeup?)
2/5
Knives Out
Marriage Story
Jojo Rabbit
Two Popes
Rocketman
Dolemite is My Name
Parasite hasn’t missed a guild yet
I think it missed Hair and Makeup?
ahhhh……ok..you might be right.
Logically because there wasn’t any makeup or hair in parasite.
I mean, there’s clearly hair, but nothing noteworthy. Besides that, there’s only bloody wound makeup.
Little Women and Downton Abbey miss out. Any other omissions?
Two Popes?
Important hit for FvF, Joker and JoJo. Also for Us and A Beautiful Day.
A miss for the deserving Two Popes.
Parasite, OUATIH and Irishman (and even 1917) keep churning.