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.

The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. 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).

The motion picture awards kicked off with Ruth De Jong taking the Period Feature Film ADG award 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.” De Jong’s also up for the Production Design Oscar next month.

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, and

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 the team behind Taylor Swift’s video for “I Can See You.” 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.

From left: David Lowery, Greg Papalia, Wynn P. Thomas and Francine West Art Directors Guild

Mimi Leder Courtesy of Apple

The Morning Show director and producer and two-time ER Emmy winner Mimi Leder received ADG’s 2024 Cinematic Imagery Award, and 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.

The Neighborhood and New Girl actor Max Greenfield is hosting the 2024 ADC Awards for Excellence in Production Design. Here are the winners so far, followed by the remaining nominees:

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