ADG Awards Nominations: Spotlighting 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners', 'Frankenstein', 'Avatar', and More

ADG Awards Announce 30th Anniversary Nominees

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, revealing nominees that highlight outstanding achievements in production design across film, television, commercials, music videos, and shorts. The awards span 13 categories, with winners set to be announced on February 28 during a ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

The ADG, which boasts a membership of over 3,000, categorizes its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period, and Contemporary. Since their inception in 1996, winners in these categories have had a strong track record at the Academy Awards, with one of these winners going on to win the Oscar for Art Direction or Production Design in 20 out of the past 29 years. Notably, in 2025, production designer Nathan Crowley and set decorator Lee Sandales won an Oscar just two weeks after their ADG triumph for the production of Wicked.

The streak of successful predictions by the ADG was interrupted in 2023 when All Quiet on the Western Front took home the Academy Award after Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period), and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary) received accolades at the 27th ADGs.

Winners for this year’s awards will be revealed during the ceremony, which will honor several industry veterans with Lifetime Achievement Awards. Honorees include production designer and director Bo Welch, set designer Jann Engel, illustrator and storyboard artist Tom Southwell, and scenic artist Stephen McNally, recognizing their remarkable contributions to the field.

“As we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Excellence in Production Design Awards, we celebrate not just the outstanding achievements of the past year, but also three decades of visionary artistry that have defined the visual storytelling of film and television,” said Dina Lipton, president of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. “This milestone honors the art directors, illustrators, storyboard artists, set designers, scenic and graphic artists and all of the creative minds who work in the art department and continue to captivate and inspire audiences worldwide.”

The nominees for the 2026 Art Directors Guild Awards, also known as the Excellence in Production Design Awards, are as follows:

Feature Film

Period Feature Film

Frankenstein: Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
Hamnet: Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Marty Supreme: Production Designer: Jack Fisk
The Phoenician Scheme: Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Sinners: Production Designer: Hannah Beachler

Fantasy Feature Film

Avatar: Fire and Ash: Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter
The Fantastic Four: First Steps: Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
Mickey 17: Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Superman: Production Designer: Beth Mickle
Wicked: For Good: Production Designer: Nathan Crowley

Contemporary Feature Film

Bugonia: Production Designer: James Price
F1: Production Designers: Ben Munro, Mark Tildesley
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Production Designer: Gary Freeman
One Battle After Another: Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs

Animated Feature Film

The Bad Guys 2: Production Designer: Luc Desmarchelier
Elio: Production Designer: Harley Jessup
KPop Demon Hunters: Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
The Spongebob Movie: Search for Squarepants: Production Designer: Sean Haworth, Animation Production Designer: Pablo R. Mayer
Zootopia 2: Production Designer: Cory Loftis

Television

One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series

The Gilded Age: “If You Want to Cook an Omlette”: Production Designer: Bob Shaw
House of Guinness: “Episode 101”: Production Designer: Richard Bullock
It: Welcome to Derry “The Blackspot”: Production Designer: Paul Austerberry
1923 “Wrap Thee in Terror”: Production Designers: Cary White, Lisa Ward
Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martini’s Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve”: Production Designer: Jon Carlos

One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series

Andor: “Who Are You?”: Production Designer: Luke Hull
Alien: Earth: “Neverland”: Production Designer: Andy Nicholson
The Last of Us: “Day One”: Production Designer: Don MacAulay
Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Sorcerer”: Production Designer: Chris Trujillo
Wednesday: “Chapter Four – If These Woes Could Talk”: Production Designer: Mark Scruton

One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series

Pluribus: “Grenade”: Production Designer: Denise Pizzini
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”: Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
Slow Horses: “Incommunicado,” “Tall Tales”: Production Designer: Choi Ho Man
The Pitt: “7:00 A.M.”: Production Designer: Nina Ruscio
The White Lotus: “Amor Fati”: Production Designer: Cristina Onori

Television Movie or Limited Series

Adolescence: Production Designer: Adam Tomlinson
Black Mirror: “USS Callister: Into Infinity”: Production Designer: Miranda Jones
Black Rabbit: Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando
Death By Lightning: Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Monster: The Ed Gein Story: Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson

Half Hour Single-Camera Series

The Bear: “Bears”: Production Designer: Merje Veski
Hacks: “A Slippery Slope”: Production Designer: Rob Tokarz
Murderbot: “FreeCommerce”: Production Designer: Sue Chan
Only Murders in the Building: “The House Always…”: Production Designer: Patrick Howe
The Studio: “The Note”: Production Designer: Julie Berghoff

Multi-Camera Series

Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George”: Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
Mid-Century Modern: “Love Thy Neighbor”: Production Designer: Greg J. Grande
Poppa’s House: “Baby Girl,” “Magic Shine Again”: Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter
Vampirina: Teenage Vampire: “First Nightmare”: Production Designer: Maggie Ruder
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place: “The Wizard at the End of the World Part II”: Production Designer: Kelly Hogan

Variety or Reality Series

Dancing with the Stars: “Wicked Night”: Production Designer: James Yarnell
Jimmy Kimmel Live!: “Jimmy Kimmel Live Brooklyn”: Production Designer: David Ellis
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “Kids Pitch”: Production Designers: Jim Fenhagen, Larry Hartman
Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host”: Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti
Squid Game: The Challenge “Catch”: Production Designers: Mathieu Weekes, Ben Norman

Variety Special

Atsuko Okatsuka: Father: Production Designer: Gary Kordan
Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful: Production Designer: David Meyer
78th Annual Tony Awards with Host Cynthia Erivo: Production Designer: Steve Bass
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special: Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
Wicked: One Wonderful Night: Production Designer: Misty Buckley

Commercials

Anderson: “Trust Your Home to Anderson”: Production Designer: Natalie Groce
Prada: “Galleria Bag”: Production Designer: Florencia Martin
State Farm “Batman vs Bateman”: Production Designer: David Skinner
Target: “Step into the Holidays”: Production Designer: Nelson Coates
Xbox: ROG Xbox Ally – “Dancing in the Dark – Launch Trailer”: Production Designer: Florencia Martin

Short Format & Music Videos

Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancelation”: Production Designer: Shane Valentino
Coldplay: “All My Love”: Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra”: Production Designer: Wesley Goodrich
Sabrina Carpenter: “Tears”: Production Designer: Brittany Porter
Taylor Swift: “The Fate of Ophelia”: Production Designer: Ethan Tobman