Seems like only yesterday the 2014 ADG Award winners were announced. Now it’s time for the 2015 crop, and just like last year, it’s chock full of top-notch eye-candy. Those tasked with picking between the nominees will have their work cut out for them; with films like The Theory of Everything, Grand Budapest Hotel, Interstellar, Guardians of the Galaxy and Birdman? Phew. Wouldn’t want to be one of those folks, it’ll be tough work.
Not to mention the TV categories, with the likes of Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Knick (SEE THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T YET. Yes I’m screming.), True Detective, American Horror Story, Key & Peele (remarkably well done art direction for sketch comedy) and Sherlock all vying for attention. What I wouldn’t give for a plane ticket, and the chance to rub elbows with the folks that create all that beauty. What? Y’all do your actors/actresses worship. I’m a be right here, fawning over set designers and special effects coordinators.
Read on for the full list of noms, and the deets about the ceremony! And if you happen to be there on January 31, toast ’em all for me, willya?
Nominations Announced for 19th Annual Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards
Ceremony to Take Place January 31, 2015 at Beverly Hilton Hotel. There is a TIE in the Awards or Events Special Category resulting in six nominees.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) today announced nominations in 11 categories of Production Design for theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials and music videos competing in the Art Directors Guild’s 19th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. The nominations were announced by ADG Council Chair Marcia Hinds and Awards co-producers Dave Blass and James Pearse Connelly. The black-tie ceremony revealing winners will take place on Saturday, January 31, 2015, from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills with comedian Owen Benjamin serving as host.
As previously announced, the recipient of the Guild’s prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award will be Academy AwardŽ winner Christopher Nolan, whose film Interstellar is in current release. Production Designer Jim Bissell, Senior Illustrator Camille Abbott, Senior Set Designer John P. Bruce and Scenic Artist Will Ferrell will be awarded the Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. Hall of Fame inductees are John Gabriel Beckman, Charles Lisanby and Walter Tyler.
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2014:
Period Film
INHERENT VICE
Production Designer: DAVID CRANK
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Production Designer: ADAM STOCKHAUSEN
THE IMITATION GAME
Production Designer: MARIA DJURKOVIC
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Production Designer: JOHN PAUL KELLY
UNBROKEN
Production Designer: JON HUTMANFantasy Film
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
Production Designer: PETER WENHAM
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Production Designer: JAMES CHINLUND
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Production Designer: CHARLES WOOD
INTERSTELLAR
Production Designer: NATHAN CROWLEY
INTO THE WOODS
Production Designer: DENNIS GASSNERContemporary Film
AMERICAN SNIPER
Production Designers: JAMES J. MURAKAMI, CHARISSE CARDENAS
BIRDMAN
Production Designer: KEVIN THOMPSON
FOXCATCHER
Production Designer: JESS GONCHOR
GONE GIRL
Production Designer: DONALD GRAHAM BURT
NIGHTCRAWLER
Production Designer: KEVIN KAVANAUGHNOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN IN TELEVISION 2014:
One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Television Series
GAME OF THRONES: “The Laws of Gods and Men,” “The Mountain and the Viper”
Production Designer: DEBORAH RILEY
MAD MEN: “Time Zones”
Production Designer: DAN BISHOP
GOTHAM: “Pilot,” “Selina Kyle,” “Arkham”
Production Designer: DOUG KRANER
THE KNICK: “Method and Madness,” “Working Late a Lot”
Production Designer: HOWARD CUMMINGS
BOARDWALK EMPIRE: “Golden Days for Boys and Girls”
Production Designer: BILL GROOMOne-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Television Series
HOMELAND: “The Drone Queen”
Production Designer: JOHN D. KRETSCHMER
HOUSE OF CARDS: “Chapter 18”
Production Designer: STEVE ARNOLD
JUSTIFIED: “Murder Of Crowes,” “Wrong Roads,” “The Toll”
Production Designer: DAVE BLASS
THE NEWSROOM: “Boston,” “Main Justice,” “Contempt”
Production Designer: KAREN STEWARD
TRUE DETECTIVE: “The Locked Room,” “Form and Void”
Production Designer: ALEX DiGERLANDOTelevision Movie or Mini-Series
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW: “Massacres and Matinees”
Production Designer: MARK WORTHINGTON
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY: “Unafraid of the Dark”
Production Designer: SETH REED
FARGO: “The Crocodiles Dilemma”
Production Designer: JOHN BLACKIE
HOUDINI: “Part I,” “Part II”
Production Designer: PATRIZIA VON BRANDENSTEIN
SHERLOCK: “His Last Vow”
Production Designer: ARWEL W. JONESHalf Hour Single-Camera Television Series
CALIFORNICATION: “Faith, Hope, Love,” “Like Father Like Son,” “Kickoff”
Production Designer: RAY YAMAGATA
HOUSE OF LIES: “Wreckage,” “Middlegame,” “Zha- Moreng”
Production Designer: RAY YAMAGATA
MODERN FAMILY: “Halloween 3: Awesomeland,” “Marco Polo,” “Won’t You Be Our Neighbor”
Production Designer: CLAIRE BENNETT
SILICON VALLEY: “Articles of Incorporation,” “Signaling Risk,” “Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency”
Production Designer: RICHARD TOYON
VEEP: “Clovis,” “Special Relationship,” “Debate”
Production Designer: JAMES GLOSTERMulti-Camera Television Series
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “How Your Mother Met Me”
Production Designer: STEPHAN OLSON
MIKE & MOLLY: “Mike & Molly’s Excellent Adventure,” “The Dice Lady Cometh”
Production Designer: JOHN SHAFFNER
THE BIG BANG THEORY: “The Locomotive Manipulation,” “The Convention Conundrum,” “The Status Quo Combustion”
Production Designer: JOHN SHAFFNER:
THE MILLERS: “You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings, Man,” “Con-Troversy,” “Papa Was a Rolling Bone”
Production Designer: GLENDA ROVELLO
UNDATABLE: “Pilot”
Production Designer: CABOT McMULLENAwards or Event Special
86th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
Production Designer: DEREK McLANE
PETER PAN LIVE!
Production Designer: DEREK McLANE
SUPER BOWL XLVIII HALFTIME SHOW: STARRING BRUNO MARS
Production Designer: BRUCE RODGERS
THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 2014
Production Designer: JOE STEWART
THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED AMERICA: A GRAMMY SALUTE TO THE BEATLES
Production Designer: MATTHEW RUSSELL
THE 66th PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS
Production Designer: KEITH IAN RAYWOODShort Format: WebSeries, Music Video or Commercial
APPLE: “Perspective”
Production Designer: SEAN HARGREAVES
COLDPLAY: “Magic”
Production Designer: EMMA FAIRLEY
IKEA: “Carousel”
Production Designer: RICHARD LASSALLE
KATY PERRY: “Dark Horse”
Production Designer: JEREMY REED
SIMPSON’S MARATHON
Production Designer: ZACH MATHEWSVariety, Competition, Reality, or Game Show Series
KEY & PEELE: “Halloween Episode,” “Alien Imposters”
Production Designer: GARY KORDAN
PORTLANDIA: “Celery”
Production Designer: TYLER B. ROBINSON
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: “Louis C. K. with Sam Smith,” “Anna Kendrick with Pharrell Williams,” “Chris Rock with Prince”
Production Designers: KEITH IAN RAYWOOD, EUGENE LEE, AKIRA YOSHIMURA, N. JOSEPH DeTULLIO
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON: “1,” “45,” “56”
Production Designers: EUGENE LEE, PETER BARAN
THE VOICE: “Blind Auditions Premiere”
Production Designers: JAMES PEARSE CONNELLY, ANTON GOSS
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