27th Art Directors Guild (ADG) winners: ‘Babylon,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ ‘Severance’

Erik Anderson February 18, 2023

The Art Directors Guild announced winners tonight for its 27th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories in a ceremony held at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downton and hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown.

In the top film awards, the productions design of Babylon bested the likes of Elvis and The Fabelmans for Period Feature Film and Everything Everywhere All At Once topped Avatar: The Way of Water for Fantasy Feature Film. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery won Contemporary.

Last week, the Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) gave their awards to Everything Everywhere All At Once (Sci-Fi/Fantasy), Elvis (Period) and TÁR (Contemporary).

Nominated for the Production Design Oscar next month are All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Elvis and The Fabelmans. All are also for up an ADG Award for Period Feature Film except Avatar, which is in the Fantasy Feature Film category.

Over in television, the breakdown of categories is more focused on more Emmy Awards category eligibility (half hour vs hour and single camera vs multi-cam) and featured winners like Severance, Our Flag Means Death and Saturday Night Live.

Taylor Swift music videos were nominated twice in that category: “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled,” along with Coldplay x Selena Gomez’s “Let Somebody Go” and Kendrick Lamar’ “Rich Spirit” but all lost to Adele’s “I Drink Wine.”

Production Designer and Art Director Terence Marsh (Doctor Zhivago, Shawshank Redemption) and pioneering silent film art director, costume designer, writer, dancer, and occasional actress Natacha Rambova (Salomé, A Doll’s House) was inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame for their extraordinary contributions to the art of visual storytelling.

Nicole Kidman presented the Cinematic Imagery Award to Baz Luhrmann & Catherine Martin.

Peter Ramsey presented the William Cameron Menzies to Guillermo del Toro.

Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Michael Denering, Luis G. Hoyos, Lilly Kilvert, Janet Kusnick.

Presenters included Annette Bening, D’Arcy Carden, Brett Gelman, Emily Hampshire, Luke Macfarlane, Kathryn Newton, Vico Ortiz, Tom Pelphrey, Samba Schutte, Jimmi Simpson and Nia Vardalos.

Here is the full list of winners.

Film

Period Feature Film

Christian M. Goldbeck, All Quiet on the Western Front
Florencia Martin, Babylon – WINNER
Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, Elvis
Rick Carter, The Fabelmans
Jess Gonchor, White Noise

Fantasy Feature Film

Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, Avatar: The Way of Water
James Chinlund, The Batman
Hannah Beachler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jason Kisvarday, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Ruth De Jong, Nope

Contemporary Feature Film

Eugenio Caballero, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
David Scheunemann, Bullet Train
Rick Heinrichs, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – WINNER
Marco Bittner Rosser, TÁR
Jeremy Hindle, Top Gun: Maverick

Animated Feature Film

Guy Davis and Curt Enderle, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
Tim Evatt, Lightyear
Liz Toonkel, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Nate Wragg, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Rona Liu, Turning Red

Television

One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series

Martin Childs, The Crown: “Ipatiev House” (Martin Childs)
The Gilded Age: “Never the New” (Bob Shaw)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: “Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest,” “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” (Bill Groom)
Pachinko: “Chapter One” (Mara LePere-Schloop) – WINNER
Peaky Blinders: “Black Day” (Nicole Northridge)

One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series

Andor: “Rix Road” (Luke Hull)
House of the Dragon: “The Heirs of the Dragon” (Jim Clay)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: “Adar” (Ramsey Avery) – WINNER
Stranger Things: “Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab” (Chris Trujillo)
Wednesday: “Woe is the Loneliest Number” (Mark Scruton)

One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series

Better Call Saul: “Wine and Roses,” “Nippy” (Denise Pizzini)
Euphoria: “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,” “The Theater and Its Double,” “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” (Jason Baldwin Stewart)
Ozark: “The Beginning of the End,” “Let the Great World Spin,” “City on the Make” (David Bomba)
Severance: “Good News About Hell” (Jeremy Hindle) – WINNER
The White Lotus: “Ciao” (Cristina Onori)

Television Movie or Limited Series

Tamara Deverell, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities – WINNER
Stefania Cella, Moon Knight
Todd Cherniawsky and Doug Chiang, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Doug Chiang and Stefan Dechant, Pinocchio
Ruth Ammon, Station Eleven

Half Hour Single-Camera Series

Emily in Paris: “What’s It All About…” “How to Lose a Designer in 10 Days” (Anne Seibel)
Hacks: “Trust the Process” (Alec Contestabile)
Only Murders in the Building: “Framed” (Patrick Howe)
Our Flag Means Death: “Pilot” (Ra Vincent) – WINNER
What We Do in the Shadows: “The Grand Opening,” “The Night Market,” “Pine Barrens” (Shayne Fox)

Multi-Camera Series

Bob ♥ Abishola: “Inner Boss Bitch,” “Two Rusty Tractors,” “Estee Lauder and Goat Meat” (Francoise Cherry-Cohen)
The Conners: “Sex, Lies, and House Hunting,” “The Best Laid Plans, A Contrabassoon and A Sinking Feeling” (Jerry Dunn)
How I Met Your Father: “Pilot” (Glenda Rovello) – WINNER
The Neighborhood: “Welcome to the Remodel” (Wendell Johnson)
United States of Al: “Kiss/Maach,” “Divorce/Talaq,” “Sock/Jeraab” (Daren Janes)

Variety, Reality or Competition Series

A Black Lady Sketch Show: “Anybody Have Something I Can Flog Myself With?,” “Bounce Them Coochies, Y’All!,” “Peaches and Eggplants for Errbody!” (Cindy Chao & Michelle Yu)
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: “HBCYOU Band” (James McGowan)
RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Catwalk,” “60’s Girl Groups,” “Daytona Wind” (Gianna Costa)
Saturday Night Live: “Jack Harlow Hosts Season 48 Episode 4, Jack Harlow Musical Guest” (Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, & N. Joseph De Tullio) – WINNER
Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant: “Honey” (Darcy E. Prevost)

Variety Special

64th Annual Grammy Awards (Kristen Merlino)
94th Annual Oscars (David Korins) – WINNER
Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester (Scott Pask)
Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party (Keith Raywood)
Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would (Star Theodos Kahn)

Commercials

American Horror Stories: “Dollhouse” Promo (Marc Benacerraf)
Bud Light Seltzer: “Land Of Loud Flavors” (François Audouy)
Just Eat & Katy Perry: “Did Somebody Say” (François Audouy)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power “Title Announcement” (Brian Branstetter) – WINNER
Paramount+: “Wildlife Promo” (Maia Javan)

Short Format: Music Video or Webseries

Adele – “I Drink Wine” (Liam Moore) – WINNER
Coldplay x Selena Gomez – “Let Somebody Go” (François Audouy)
Kendrick Lamar – “Rich Spirit” (Scott Falconer)
Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” (Ethan Tobman)
Taylor Swift – “Bejeweled” (Ethan Tobman)

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.