ADG Awards: ‘Birdman’, ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’, & ‘Guardians’ Take Top Film Prizes – ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘True Detective Among TV Winners

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.

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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.