Best Period Film: Adam Stockhausen, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Fantasy Film: Christopher Wood, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Best Contemporary Film: Kevin Thompson, Birdman
Period or Fantasy TV Series: Deborah Riley, Game of Thrones
Period or Fsntasy TV Series: Alex DiGerlando, True Detective
TV Movie or Mini-Series: Mark Worthington for American Horror Story
Half-hour Single-Camera TV Series: Richard Toyon, Silicon Valley
Awards or Event Special: Derek McLane for the 86th Academy Awards
Multi-Camera Television Series goes to John Shaffner for Big Bang
Short Format: WebSeries, Music Video or Commercial: Sean Hargreaves, Apple’s ‘Perspective’
Variety, Competition, Reality, or Game Show Series: Tyler B. Robinson, Portlandia
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Earlier: Art Directors are on the red carpet right now, ready for tonight’s ADG Awards. With The Grand Budapest Hotel doing so well with other key precursors this month, it’s hard to imagine that Production Designer Adam Stockhausen won’t be honored. For the theatrical film categories, I’ll guess that the evening goes like this:
Period Film: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantasy Film: Interstellar
Contemporary: Gone Girl
I realize Gone Girl’s art direction is the most subtle in its category, but I think it’s also the most sophisticated — I’d even say witty. If the ADG voters decide to go for ugliest, tackiest, most tawdry art direction, then the Contemporary category might be a 4-way tie between Sniper, Burdman, Foxcatcher and Nightcrawler. I know those four films are supposed to make me feel like i need a hot steamy shower and they all succeeded. Though I’ll concede, if Gone Girl has to continue its losing streak, then Nightcrawler’s clammy LA cityscape feels the most cohesively atmospheric.
Full list of all the nominees — TV too. What are best guesses for tonight’s winners?
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 HUTMAN
Fantasy 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 GASSNER
Contemporary 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 KAVANAUGH
NOMINEES 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 GROOM
One-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 DiGERLANDO
Television 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. JONES
Half 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 GLOSTER
Multi-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 McMULLEN
Awards 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 RAYWOOD
Short 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 MATHEWS
Variety, 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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Jesus Alonso, I think theoretically the production design of animated features may be eligible for the Fantasy category. But for what its worth, the Annie Awards have production design awards for animated features and TV. Here’s how they turned out:
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
The Boxtrolls, Paul Lasaine, Tom McClure & August Hall (Focus Features/Laika)
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
Mickey Shorts, Narina Sokolova (Disney)
Someone, anyone, explain to me, why there isn’t a cathegory for Art Direction and Set Decoration, in an animated film… 2014’s crop included the set pieces in “The Lego Movie”, “The Boxtrolls”, “Big Hero 6”, “The Book of Life”, “How to Train Your Dragon 2”, “Penguins of Madagascar” and plenty more, they might be animated, but they’re 3D sets, “constructed” digitally but designed and pure art direction, many times, way better than the live-action ones.
It just occured to me I should launch the ADD awards, that would be quite fitting!
BIRDMAN !!!!!!
Go you good thing