‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘The Green Knight,’ ‘Squid Game’ earn Art Directors Guild (ADG) nominations

Erik Anderson January 24, 2022

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 26^th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features.

In Period Feature Film the nominees are: The French Dispatch, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Tragedy of Macbeth and West Side Story. Surprising misses here were Being the Ricardos, Cyrano, Spencer, Belfast and The Power of the Dog. For Fantasy Feature Film we have Cruella, Dune, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Green Knight and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Since 1996, five Best Picture Oscar winners have missed here:

2001 – A Beautiful Mind (Period)
2015 – Spotlight (Contemporary)
2016 – Moonlight (Contemporary)
2018 – Green Book (Period)
2020 – Nomadland (Contemporary)

Television nominees include The Morning Show, Squid Game, Schmigadoon, The Undergound Railroad and Foundation across five narrative series categories.

As previously announced, director Denis Villeneuve (Dune) will receive the William Cameron Menzies Award. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) will receive the Cinematic Imagery Award. The ADG Awards honor excellence in Production Design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animated feature films. Producer of the 2022 ADG Awards is Art Director Michael Allen Glover, ADG (The Alienist, Solos and Station Eleven). Joining the team as stage designer is Emmy-winning Production Designer Brian J. Stonestreet, ADG (Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, Billboard Awards).

ADG Awards are open only to productions when made within the U.S. by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.

Winners will be honored at the ADG Awards ceremony, returning to a live-in person ceremony at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles Downtown Hotel on Saturday, March 5, 2022. The announcement was made today by ADG President Nelson Coates, ADG, and Awards Producer Michael Allen Glover, ADG.

FEATURE FILM

PERIOD FEATURE FILM
The French Dispatch
   Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Licorice Pizza
     Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Nightmare Alley
    Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Production Designer: Stefan Dechant
West Side Story
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen

FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Cruella
      Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Dune
      Production Designer: Patrice Vermette
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
      Production Designer: François Audouy
The Green Knight
      Production Designer: Jade Healy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
      Production Designer: Sue Chan

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Candyman
      Production Designer: Cara Brower
Don’t Look Up
      Production Designer: Clayton Hartley
In the Heights
      Production Designer: Nelson Coates
The Lost Daughter
      Production Designer: Inbal Weinberg
No Time to Die
      Production Designer: Mark Tildesley

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto
      Production Designers: Ian Gooding, Lorelay Bové
Luca
      Production Designer: Daniela Strijleva
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
      Production Designer: Lindsey Olivares
Raya and the Last Dragon
      Production Designers: Paul Felix, Mingjue Helen Chen, Cory Loftis
Sing 2
      Art Director: Olivier Adam

TELEVISION

ONE-HOUR PERIOD OR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
     Foundation: “The Emperor’s Peace”
      Production Designer: Rory Cheyne
     The Great: “Dickhead,” “Seven Days,” “Wedding”
      Production Designer: Francesca di Mottola
     Loki: “Glorious Purpose”
      Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
     Lost In Space: “Three Little Birds”
      Production Designer: Alec Hammond
     The Witcher: “A Grain of Truth”
      Production Designer: Andrew Laws

ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
     The Handmaid’s Tale: “Chicago”
      Production Designer: Elisabeth Williams
     The Morning Show: “My Least Favorite Year,” “It’s Like the Flu,” “A Private Person”
      Production Designer: Nelson Coates
     Squid Game: “Gganbu”
      Production Designer: Chae Kyoung-sun
     Succession: “The Disruption,” “Too Much Birthday”
      Production Designer: Stephen Carter
     Yellowstone: “No Kindness for the Coward”
      Production Designer: Cary White

TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
     Halston
      Production Designer: Mark Ricker
     Mare of Easttown
      Production Designer: Keith P. Cunningham
     The Underground Railroad
      Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
     WandaVision:
      Production Designer: Mark Worthington
     The White Lotus
      Production Designer: Laura Fox

HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
     Hacks: “Primm”
      Production Designer: Jon Carlos
     Only Murders in the Building: “True Crime”
      Production Designer: Curt Beech
     Schmigadoon!: “Schmigadoon!”
      Production Designer: Bo Welch
     Ted Lasso: “Carol of the Bells,” “Man City,” “Beard After Hours”
      Production Designer: Paul Cripps
     What We Do in the Shadows: “The Prisoner,” “The Cloak of Duplication,” “The Siren”
      Production Designer: Kate Bunch

MULTI-CAMERA SERIES    ** TIE **
     Bob ❤ Abishola: “Bowango”
      Production Designer: Francoise Cherry-Cohen
     Call Your Mother: “Pilot”
      Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
     The Conners – Season 3: “A Stomach Ache, a Heartbreak and a Grave Mistake,”
      “An Old Dog, New Tricks and a Ticket to Ride”
      Production Designer: John Shaffner
     Dave: “Ad Man,” “Enlightened Dave,” “Dave”
      Production Designer: Almitra Corey
     Family Reunion: “Remember When M’Dear Changed History?”
      Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter
     Punky Brewster: “Put a Ring on It”
      Production Designer: Kristan Andrews

COMMERCIALS    ** TIE **
     Anhauser-Busch Super Bowl LV: “Let’s Grab a Beer”
      Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
     Apple: Introducing iPhone 13 Pro
      Production Designer: Dylan Kahn
     Apple: “Saving Simon” Shot on iPhone 13 Pro
      Production Designer: Chelsea Oliver
     Apple Music: “Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever”
      Production Designer: François Audouy
     Gucci: “Aria”
      Production Designer: Jeremy Reed
     Neom: “Made to Change”
      Production Designer: François Audouy

MUSIC VIDEOS
     Coldplay “Higher Power”
      Production Designer: Patrick Tatopoulos
     Coldplay X BTS: “My Universe”
      Production Designer: François Audouy
     Ed Sheeran: “Shivers”
      Production Designer: François Audouy
     P!nk: “All I Know So Far”
      Production Designer: François Audouy
     Taylor Swift: “All Too Well”
      Production Designer: Ethan Tobman

VARIETY, REALITY OR COMPETITION SERIES
     A Black Lady Sketch Show: “If I’m Paying These Chili’s Prices, You Cannot Taste My Steak!”
      Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michele Yu
     Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses: “Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff”
      Production Designer: John Janavs
     RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Condragulations,” “Bossy Rossy Rubot,” “Gettin’ Lucky”
      Production Designer: James McGowan
     Saturday Night Live: “Host: Dan Levy + Music: Phoebe Bridgers,” “Host: Maya Rudolph +
     Music: Jack Harlow,” “Host: Kim Kardashian West + Music: Halsey”
      Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio
     Waffles + Mochi: “Tomato”
      Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michele Yu

VARIETY SPECIAL
     American Express – Unstaged (with SZA)
       Production Designer: Carlos Laszlo
     Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster
      Production Designer: James Kronzer
     Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “Facts of Life – Kids Can Be Cruel (320) & Diff’rent Strokes –
     Willis’ Privacy (115)
      Production Designer: Stephan Olson
     Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3
      Supervising Art Director: Steve Morden
     Yearly Departed
      Production Designer: Frida Oliva

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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.