Set Decorators Society Of America (SDSA) Awards: ‘Saltburn,’ ‘Poor Things,’ ‘Barbie’ Win
The Set Decorators Society Of America (SDSA) awards were announced today, honoring the best in décor and design for contemporary, period, fantasy or sci-fi and comedy or musical films.
Saltburn was the winner for contemporary film while the comedy or musical feature film winner was Asteroid City. Among the Oscar nominees contending at SDSA, Barbie won the fantasy or science fiction film category where it had no Oscar competition, and Poor Things, which competed in period film, won there, besting fellow Oscar nominees Oppenheimer, Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon.
To confuse things a little bit, Poor Things recently won the Art Directors Guild (ADG) award for production design for fantasy film (where it beat Barbie) while Oppenheimer was the period winner there. Poor Things was also named Best Picture by the SDSA, a juried award with no nominees. Everything Everywhere All At Once won last year.
Here is the complete list of winners and nominees of the Set Decorators Society Of America (SDSA) awards.
Best Picture
POOR THINGS
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Set Decoration by Zsuzsa Mihalek with Production Design by
James Price & Shona Heath
Best Achievement In Décor/Design Of A Contemporary Feature Film
THE KILLER – Set Decoration by Brandi Kalish SDSA with Production Design by Donald Graham Burt
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND – Set Decoration by David Schlesinger SDSA with Production Design by Anastasia White
MAY DECEMBER – Set Decoration by Jess Royal with Production Design by Sam Lisenco
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE – Set Decoration by Raffaella Giovannetti SDSA with Production Design by Gary Freeman
SALTBURN – Set Decoration by Charlotte Dirickx SDSA with Production Design by Suzie Davies – WINNER
Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Period Feature Film
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Set Decoration by Adam Willis with Production Design by Jack Fisk
MAESTRO – Set Decoration by Rena DeAngelo SDSA with Production Design by Kevin Thompson
NAPOLEON – Set Decoration by Elli Griff with Production Design by Arthur Max
OPPENHEIMER – Set Decoration by Claire Kaufman SDSA with Production Design by Ruth De Jong
POOR THINGS – Set Decoration by Zsuzsa Mihalek with Production Design by James Price & Shona Heath – WINNER
Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Fantasy or Science Fiction Film
BARBIE – Set Decoration by Katie Spencer SDSA with Production Design by Sarah Greenwood – WINNER
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 – Set Decoration by Rosemary Brandenburg SDSA with Production Design by Beth Mickle
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES – Set Decoration by Sabine Schaaf with Production Design by Uli Hanisch
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY – Set Decoration by Anna Pinnock with Production Design by Adam Stockhausen
WONKA – Set Decoration by Lee Sandales with Production Design by Nathan Crowley
Best Achievement in Décor / Design of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film
AMERICAN FICTION – Set Decoration by Kyra Friedman Curcio SDSA with Production Design by Jonathan Guggenheim
ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET – Set Decoration by Selina M. Van den Brink SDSA with Production Design by Steve Saklad
ASTEROID CITY – Set Decoration by Kris Moran with Production Design by Adam Stockhausen – WINNER
CANDY CANE LANE – Set Decoration by Jan Pascale SDSA with Production Design by Aaron Osborne
THE LITTLE MERMAID – Set Decoration by Gordon Sim SDSA with Production Design by John Myhre
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