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The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 24th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features. The nominees include features The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ford v Ferrari…

The Art Directors Guild said Tuesday that Jack Johnson, whose credits as an illustrator include Goonies and Edward Scissorhands, will receive the guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th annual ADG Awards. The ceremony is set for February 1 in the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at the InterContinental Los Angeles…

Stephen Myles Berger, known for his work on films such as Sunshine Boys, Basic Instinct and Robin Hood: Men in Tights and for his designs of theme parks around the world, has been selected to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors Guild. The honor will be presented February 1 during the guild’s…

Denis Olsen, who has worked on films such as Ghostbusters, Rocky 2 & 3, The Muppet Movie and Romancing the Stone, among others, is set to receive the Art Directors Guild's Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists Lifetime Achievement Award during the ADG Awards on February 1 in Los Angeles. This is the second of four…

Oscar-nominated production designer Joe Alves, best known for his work on the Steven Spielberg classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws, will receive the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 1. “The breadth and depth of Joe…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid allegations of "union-busting," the office staff at the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800, will vote this month in a contentious battle over whether they want to be represented by a union. In early June, a slim majority of the bargaining unit – which now stands at 28 – signed union representation…

The Art Directors Guild said Wednesday that its 24th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2020 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown in Wilshire Grand Centre. The date falls the same weekend as last year’s ADG Awards, where Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians and The M…

Chuck Parker has been re-elected national executive director of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. He and the guild's associate national executive director, who goes by the name dooner, were reelected at the guild's bi-annual general membership meeting last Saturday. They both ran unopposed. "I am so pleased…

The trophies for the 23rd Annual Art Directors Guild Awards were handed out on Saturday night at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown with two of the most game-changing inclusive films of the year Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians taking home awards for film and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Handmaid’s…

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 23rd Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in film, TV, commercials, videos and animation features. Among the candidates: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite and Roma, and, on the TV side, Sharp Objects and Glow. Winners…

Legendary production designers Anthony Masters and Ben Carré, whose work appeared in some of the most iconic films of the 20th century, will be inducted into the Art Directors Guild’s Hall of Fame at the organization’s 23rd annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Masters, who died in 1990, was Oscar-nominated…

The Art Directors Guild said today that production designer Ed Verreaux, scenic artist Jim Fiorito and art director William F. Matthews will join previously announced production designer Jeannine Oppewall as recipients of the guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The four will be honored at the 23rd Annual ADG…