“The Shape of Water” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” emerged as big winners at the 2018 Art Directors Guild Awards, held Saturday night in Hollywood.
Paul Denham Austerberry, production designer on the Guillermo del Toro film, won in the category of Best Period Film. “Logan” designer Francois Audouy took Best Contemporary Film, while Dennis Gassner won Best Fantasy Film for “Blade Runner 2049.”
“The Shape of Water” and “Blade Runner 2049” are both nominated for the Oscar for Production Design, alongside “Darkest Hour, ” “Dunkirk” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
“Shape of Water” beat two of those films, “Darkest Hour” and “Dunkirk,” in its ADG category, while “Blade Runner” beat “Beauty and the Beast” in its category.
On the TV side, Hulu’s Margaret Atwood adaptation took the prize for best hourlong contemporary series for the work of production designer Juliem Berghoff. “Game of Thrones” won for single-camera fantasy series, and Netflix’s “Black Mirror” won for TV movie or limited series.
Lucasfilm chief and prolific producer Kathleen Kennedy was honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award from the guild, for her many credits including the Indiana Jones series, “Jurassic Park” and the “Star Wars” franchise.
Other honorary awards went to Disney animators Ron Clements and John Musker, who won the Cinematic Imagery Award; and International IATSE President Matthew D. Loeb, who was given a special Leadership Award.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were given to production designers Norm Newberry and James Murakami, scenic artist John Moffitt and senior illustrator/art director Martin Kline. The Outstanding Creative Achievement Award went to Michael Baugh, while Sir Ken Adam and Tyrus Wong were inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame.
Presenters included Gary Oldman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Will Arnett and Katee Sackhoff.
In the 21 years of the ADG Awards’ existence, one of its winners has gone on to win the Oscar for Art Direction or Production Design 14 times. Since the ADG split into its current alignment of period, fantasy and contemporary categories 11 years ago, eight of the Oscar winners were first ADG winners: four from the period category, three from fantasy and one from contemporary.
No film has ever won the Oscar for design without first being nominated for an ADG Award.
The ceremony took place in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Read the full list of winners:
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM:
1. 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
*WINNER: THE SHAPE OF WATER
Production Designer: Paul Denham Austerberry
2. FANTASY FILM
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood
*WINNER: 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
3. CONTEMPORARY FILM
DOWNSIZING
Production Designer: Stefania Cella
GET OUT
Production Designer: Rusty Smith
LADY BIRD
Production Designer: Chris Jones
*WINNER: LOGAN
Production Designer: Francois Audouy
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Production Designer: Inbal Weinberg
4. ANIMATED FILM
CARS 3
Production Designers: William Cone, Jay Shuster
*WINNER: 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
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR TELEVISION ARE:
5. ONE-HOUR PERIOD OR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: “The Bad Beginning: Part One,” “The Reptile Room: Part One,” “The Wide Window: Part One”
Production Designer: Bo Welch
THE CROWN: “A Company of Men,” “Beryl,” “Dear Mrs. Kennedy”
Production Designer: Martin Childs
*WINNER: GAME OF THRONES: “Dragonstone,” “The Queen`s Justice,” “Eastwatch”
Production Designer: Deborah Riley
MINDHUNTER: “S1:E1,” “S1:E4,” “S1:E9”
Production Designer: Steve Arnold
STRANGER THINGS: “Chapter Six: The Spy,” “Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer,” “Chapter Nine: The Gate”
Production Designer: Chris Trujillo
6. ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
AMERICAN GODS: “The Bone Orchard,” “The Secret of Spoons,” “Head Full of Snow”
Production Designer: Patti Podesta
*WINNER: THE HANDMAID’S TALE: “Pilot, Offred,” “Birth Day,” “Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum”
Production Designer: Julie Berghoff
THE HANDMAID’S TALE: “The Bridge”
Production Designer: Andrew Steran
MR. ROBOT: “eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h,” “eps3.1_undo.gz,” “eps3.2_legacy.so”
Production Designer: Anastasia White
TWIN PEAKS: “Ep. 1: Part 1,” “Ep. 8: Part 8,” “Ep. 15: Part 15”
Production Designer: Ruth De Jong
7. TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT: “Election Night,” “Winter of Our Discontent”
Production Designer: Jeff Mossa
BIG LITTLE LIES: “Somebody`s Dead,” “Living the Dream,” “You Get What You Need”
Production Designer: John Paino
*WINNER ‘BLACK MIRROR’: “USS Callister”
Production Designer: Joel Collins
FARGO: “The Narrow Escape Problem,” “The Law of Inevitability,” “Who Rules the Land of Denial?”
Production Designer: Elisabeth Williams
FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN: “Pilot,” “And the Winner is…,” “You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?”
Production Designer: Judy Becker
8. HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
FUTURE MAN: “Pandora’s Mailbox,” “Beyond The Truffledome,” “A Date With Destiny”
Production Designer: Jessica Kender
*WINNER: GLOW: “Pilot,” “The Wrath of Kuntar,” “The Dusty Spur”
Production Designer: Todd Fjelsted
MASTER OF NONE: “Le Nozze,” “Thanksgiving,” “Amarsi Un Po”
Production Designer: Amy Williams
SILICON VALLEY: “Hooli-Con,” “Server Error”
Production Designer: Richard Toyon
VEEP: “Omaha”
Production Designer: Jim Gloster
9. MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
9JKL: “Pilot,” “Lovers Getaway,” “Set Visit”
Production Designer: Stephan Olson
THE BIG BANG THEORY: “The Romance Recalibration,” “The Separation Agitation,” “The Explosion Implosion”
Production Designer: John Shaffner
THE RANCH: “My Best Friend,” “Last Dollar (Fly Away),” “Wrapped Up in You”
Production Designer: Johb Shaffner
SUPERIOR DONUTS: “Pilot,” “Crime Time,” “Arthur`s Day Off”
Production Designer: Stephan Olson
*WINNER: WILL & GRACE: “Eleven Years Later,” “A Gay Olde Christmas”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
10. SHORT FORMAT: WEB SERIES, MUSIC VIDEO OR COMMERCIAL
APPLE: “Bulbs”
Production Designer: James Chinlund
CHANEL: “Gabrielle”
Production Designer: Shane Valentino
KATY PERRY: “Bon Appétit”
Production Designer: Natalie Groce
NIKE: “Equality”
Production Designer: Ruth De Jong
*WINNER: STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II: “Rivalry / PS4”
Production Designer: Jason Edmonds
11. VARIETY OR COMPETITION SERIES/AWARDS OR EVENT SPECIAL
BILL NYE SAVES THE WORLD: “Earth Is A Hot Mess”
Production Designer: James Pearse Connelly
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS: “74th Annual”
Production Designer: Brian Stonestreet
*WINNER: PORTLANDIA: “Portland Secedes,” “Ants,” “Fred`s Cell Phone Company”
Production Designer: Schuyler Telleen
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: “Aziz Ansari + Big Sean,” “Alec Baldwin + Ed Sheeran,” “Larry David + Miley Cyrus”
Production Designers: Keith Ian Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimira, N. Joseph DeTullio
SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW: “STARRING LADY GAGA”
Production Designer: Bruce Rodgers