Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Guardians Of The Galaxy took the top film honors tonight at the Art Directors Guild’s 19th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Birdman took the Contemporary Film prize, The Grand Budapest Hotel won for Period Film and Guardians Of The Galaxy took the Fantasy Film trophy.
Christopher Nolan paid tribute to the artists he’s worked with, in particular his longtime art director Nathan Crowley, in accepting the guild’s prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award. “Whatever I’ve contributed to cinematic imagery is due to my collaborations with my designers,” Nolan said, listing the numerous examples of Crowley’s, and other artists’ contributions to his films. “I think the art department stands for everything wonderful about movies, everything exciting about movies. They stand for how wonderful movies could be if we’d just stand back and let them work.
On the TV side, HBO was the big winner, with Game Of Thrones winning the One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Television Series award, True Detective taking the Contemporary prize, and Silicon Valley getting the nod for Half-Hour Single Camera Television Series. Here’s the complete list:
Fantasy Film
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Production Designer: CHARLES WOOD
Period Film
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Production Designer: ADAM STOCKHAUSEN
Contemporary Film
BIRDMAN
Production Designer: KEVIN THOMPSON
One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Television Series
GAME OF THRONES: “The Laws of Gods and Men,” “The Mountain and the Viper”
Production Designer: DEBORAH RILEY
One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Television Series
TRUE DETECTIVE: “The Locked Room,” “Form and Void”
Production Designer: ALEX DiGERLANDO
Television Movie or Mini-Series
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW: “Massacres and Matinees”
Production Designer: MARK WORTHINGTON
Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series
SILICON VALLEY: “Articles of Incorporation,” “Signaling Risk,” “Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency”
Production Designer: RICHARD TOYON
Awards or Event Special
86th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
Production Designer: DEREK McLANE
Multi-Camera Television Series
THE BIG BANG THEORY: “The Locomotive Manipulation,” “The Convention Conundrum,” “The Status Quo Combustion”
Production Designer: JOHN SHAFFNER:
Variety, Competition, Reality, or Game Show Series
PORTLANDIA: “Celery”
Production Designer: TYLER B. ROBINSON
Short Format: WebSeries, Music Video or Commercial
APPLE: “Perspective”
Production Designer: SEAN HARGREAVES
Cinematic Imagery Award
Christopher Nolan
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Jim Bissell
Camille Abbott
John P. Bruce
Will Ferrell
Hall of Fame Inductees
John Gabriel Beckman
Charles Lisanby
Walter Tyler.
