‘Wicked,’ ‘Conclave,’ and ‘Nosferatu’ take top film prizes at Art Directors Guild Awards
Wicked, Conclave, and Nosferatu took top honors at the 29th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards (aka the Excellence in Production Design Awards) Saturday. Rachael Harris (Lucifer, Goosebumps, Mother of the Bride, Unfrosted) hosted the show from the InterContinental Ballroom in Los Angeles.
The Art Directors Guild divides its top film prizes into Period, Contemporary, and Fantasy Feature categories, which went to the Oscar-nominated production designers for Nosferatu, Conclave, and Wicked, respectively. Since the inception of these awards, the winner of one of those three has gone on to win the Best Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 19 of the 28 years and 10 of the past 11 years (including last year, when the Academy Award went to Poor Things). The three films will go up against Dune: Part Two and The Brutalist next month for the production design Academy Award, with Wicked considered not only the frontrunner but a heavily-favored one at that.
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Nosferatu won top Period Feature over fellow nominees A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Gladiator II, and Saturday Night. Wicked took Fantasy Feature over Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. And Conclave earned the Contemporary Feature honor over Civil War, Emilia Pérez, The Substance, and Twisters.
Production designer Raymond Zibach took the Animated Feature Film trophy for heavy Oscar favorite The Wild Robot, besting the designers for Flow, Inside Out 2, Moana 2 and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The winners in the TV categories, meanwhile, included the designers for Shōgun, Squid Game, The Penguin, Fallout, What We Do in the Shadows, Saturday Night Live, Frasier, and the CBS special Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic.
This year’s Cinematic Imagery Award was presented to filmmaker Jason Reitman, whose features include Juno, Up in the Air, and the current hit Saturday Night. In addition, the ADG celebrated scenic artist Lisa Frazza, set designer Barbara Mesney, storyboard artist Dan Sweetman, and production designer J. Dennis Washington with Lifetime Achievement Awards, and legendary production designer Carl Jules Weyl was officially inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame.
Here are the 2025 Art Directors Guild Awards winners in all 15 categories:
Best Period Feature Film
Nosferatu — production designer: Craig Lathrop
Best Fantasy Feature Film
Wicked — production designer: Nathan Crowley
Best Contemporary Feature Film
Conclave — production designer: Freyja Bardell
Best Animated Feature Film
The Wild Robot — production designer: Raymond Zibach
Best One-Hour Period Single-Camera Series
Shōgun: “Anjin” — production designer: Helen Jarvis
Best One-Hour Fantasy Single-Camera Series
Fallout: “The End” — production designer: Howard Cummings
Best One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series
Squid Game: “Six Legs,” “O X” — production designer: Chae Kyoung-sun
Best Limited Series
The Penguin — production designer: Kalina Ivanov
Best Half-Hour Single-Camera Series
What We Do in the Shadows: “Headhunting” — production designer: Shayne Fox
Best Multi-Camera Series
Frasier: “All About Eve” — production designer: Glenda Rovello
Best Variety or Reality Series
Saturday Night Live: “Host: Ariana Grande, Musical Guest: Stevie Nicks” — production designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
Best Variety Special
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic — production designers: James Yarnell, Steve Morden
Best Commercials
Apple Pay: “Plates” — production designer: Fran?ois Audouy
Best Music Videos
Kendrick Lamar: “Not Like Us” — production designer: Freyja Bardell
Best Television Movie
Unfrosted — production designer: Clayton Hartley
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