Art Directors Guild Awards: ‘Wicked’, ‘Nosferatu’, ‘Conclave’ Take Top Film Prizes; ‘Fallout’, ‘Shōgun’ Among TV Winners – Full List
Wicked, Nosferatu, Conclave and The Wild Robot took top film honors at the 29th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. TV winners included Fallout, Shōgun, The Penguin, Squid Game, Saturday Night Live, Frasier and What We Do in the Shadows.
Check out the full list below.
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Warner Bros’ Wicked won for Fantasy Feature Film, and Focus Features pics took the other two top film prizes: vampire horror Nosferatu won for Period Feature Film, and papal drama Conclave took Contemporary Feature Film, the first film award of the night. All three will go up against fellow ADG nominees The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two and Wicked for the Production Design Oscar next month.
Since the trophy show launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 19 of the 28 years. It had a run of nine in a row in 2024, when All Quiet on the Western Front went on to score the Academy Award after the Art Directors lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once (Fantasy), Babylon (Period) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Contemporary).
Universal’s The Wild Robot built on its recent trophy-show success including dominating the Annie Awards this month with a win for Animated Feature.
On the TV side, Prime Video’s Fallout — which is moving to L.A. for Season 2 — took the One-Hour Fantasy Series prize, FX’s awards-laden Shōgun won for Period Single-Camera Series and Disney+’s The Penguin waddled off Limited Series.
The first award of the night went to the team behind Netflix’s Squid Game for Contemporary One-Hour Series. Later, Paramount+’s now-wrapped Frasier won for Multi Camera Series. Another show that ended in 2024, What We Do in the Shadows, took the Single Camera Series prize. NBC’s Saturday Night Live went home with the Variety or Reality award, and CBS” Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic took Variety Special.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” later took the Music Video prize, two weeks after winning Song and Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards.10
Guild leaders opened the show by emphasizing “community” after the devastating Los Angeles wildfires and amid the ongoing slowdown in local film and TV production. You can donate to fire relief through the ADG Awards Fundraiser. Donations can be made here, and you can sign the “Stay in L.A.” petition here.
The ADG honored Saturday Night director Jason Reitman with the 2025 Cinematic Imagery Award, and art department veterans Lisa Frazza, Barbara Mesney, Dan Sweetman and J. Dennis Washington received Lifetime Achievement Awards. The late Oscar winner Carl Jules Weyl, whose credits include Casablanca and The Adventures of Robin Hood, was inducted into the guild’s Hall of Fame.
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The In Memoriam segment paid tribute to the Alber Obieson, Stella “Elle” Boyd, Hubert “Hub” Braden, Raymond Chan, Aric J. Lasher, Dahl Delu, Michael Epstein, Nicholas Murphy, Coulter McAuslanfd, Richard Owen and William “Bill” Waxler.
Comic Rachael Harris hosted tonight’s ceremony, with presenters including Garret Dillahunt, Peter Facinelli, Ron Funches, Eve Harlow, Samantha Hanratty, Vella Lovell, Al Madrigal, Joe Manganiello, Skye P. Marshall, Lamorne Morris, Jason Ritter, Devon Sawa, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Urie and Jessica Williams.
A portion of all proceeds from the awards will be donated to disaster relief efforts benefiting behind-the-camera workers in the entertainment industry impacted by the recent wildfires. “Our membership and filmmaking community have been impacted by these devastating fires, and it’s heartening to see our industry come together,” said Dina Lipton, President of ADG, IATSE Local 800. “Please join us in supporting, uplifting and rebuilding.”
Here are the winners at the 2025 ADG Awards:
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Wicked
Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA TV SERIES
Fallout: “The End”
Production Designer: Howard Cummings
TV LIMITED SERIES
The Penguin
Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Nosferatu
Production Designer: Craig Lathrop
ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA TV SERIES
Shōgun: “Anjin”
Production Designer: Helen Jarvis
VARIETY SPECIAL
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Production Designers: James Yarnell, Steve Morden
VARIETY OR REALITY TV SERIES
Saturday Night Live: “Host: Ariana Grande, Musical Guest: Stevie Nicks”
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA TV SERIES
What We Do in the Shadows: “Headhunting”
Production Designer: Shayne Fox
MULTI-CAMERA TV SERIES
Frasier: “All About Eve”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
TELEVISION MOVIE
Unfrosted
Production Designer: Clayton Hartley
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Wild Robot
Production Designer: Raymond Zibach
COMMERCIALS
Apple Pay: “Plates”
Production Designer: Fran?ois Audouy
MUSIC VIDEOS
Kendrick Lamar: “Not Like Us”
Production Designer: Freyja Bardell
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Conclave
Production Designer: Suzie Davies
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA TV SERIES
Squid Game: “Six Legs,” “O X”
Production Designer: Chae Kyoung-sun
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