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







