Blade Runner, Shape, Coco and Logan Win Art Directors Guild Awards

Fantasy: Blade Runner 2049
Contemporary Film: Logan
Animated Feature: Coco
Period Film: The Shape of Water
Half Hour Series – Glow
One-Hour Period or Fantasy, Single Camera – Game of Thrones wins
Will and Grace – Multi-Camera Series is
Portlanda – Winner for Variety or Competition Series
The Handmaid’s Tale – One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series

Previously:

The winners for the Art Directors Guild all be announced in three categories for film. All of the films nominated for Production Design at the Oscars are also are up for Art Directors Guild awards and those are:

The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour

Naturally we would assume that the ones up for Production Design would have the best chance of winning but the problem is they’re up against each other. Darkest Hour, Dunkirk and The Shape of Water are all up for the prize and honestly it’s a tough call between them. They’re all excellent. I suppose that The Shape of Water seems to have the best shot here but I would not be surprised if one of the others wins.

No film in the fantasy category is up for Best Picture, but Blade Runner 2049 is up for Production Design, thus, I would expect that one to win. Coco should easily win for animated feature but Loving Vincent might take that, considering what went into creating the paintings used.

That leaves Contemporary, where we have a showdown between Lady Bird and Get Out. Both will go up against Logan, Three Billboards and Downsizing. I don’t know what’s winning here, but I do wonder if either Lady Bird or Get Out will. That might help a little to give us SOME direction. I think that Logan might take it and I only know that because my daughter made me watch it. Lady Bird certainly could. There was loving detail put into re-creating turn of the millennium life in Sacramento, as could Get Out with the production design in the second half of the film.

Here are the nominees:

NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM:

 PERIOD FILM

DARKEST HOUR
Production Designer: SARAH GREENWOOD

DUNKIRK
Production Designer: NATHAN CROWLEY

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Production Designer: JIM CLAY

THE POST
Production Designer: RICK CARTER

THE SHAPE OF WATER
Production Designer: PAUL DENHAM AUSTERBERRY

 FANTASY FILM

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Production Designer: SARAH GREENWOOD

BLADE RUNNER 2049
Production Designer: DENNIS GASSNER

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
Production Designer: RICK HEINRICHS

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Production Designer: JAMES CHINLUND

WONDER WOMAN
Production Designer: ALINE BONETTO

 CONTEMPORARY FILM

DOWNSIZING
Production Designer: STEFANIA CELLA

GET OUT
Production Designer: RUSTY SMITH

LADY BIRD
Production Designer: CHRIS JONES

LOGAN
Production Designer: FRANÇOIS AUDOUY

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Production Designer: INBAL WEINBERG

ANIMATED FILM

CARS 3
Production Designers: WILLIAM CONE, JAY SHUSTER

COCO
Production Designer: HARLEY JESSUP

DESPICABLE ME 3
Art Director: OLIVIER ADAM

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
Production Designer: GRANT FRECKELTON

LOVING VINCENT
Production Designer: MATTHEW BUTTON