The Art Directors Guild has unveiled nominations for its 28th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which celebrate the year’s best achievements in theatrical motion pictures, TV, commercials, music videos and animated features. See the full list below.
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. 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 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, 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).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
The guild divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. 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 18 of the 27 years. It had a run of nine in a row snapped last year, 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).
Winners will be announced February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, a Blade Runner Oscar...
- 1/9/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s Frasier Week at IndieWire. Grab some tossed salad and scrambled eggs, settle into your coziest easy chair, and join us. We’re listening.
As part of ongoing Frasier Week festivities, we reached out to several acclaimed production designers to break down the iconic Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) apartment. We asked them what made “Frasier” such a great example of sitcom production design, and they dug deep into how the flow, colors, style, and composition all contribute to the comedy and the characters on the show. Great production design often goes unnoticed, especially on shows with a contemporary setting, but sends tons of signals to the viewer about the characters: their taste, their pretensions, their personality.
“Through the right use of lighting (or lack of), the decoration, the age, the cleanliness, a general feeling can be conveyed and then the amount of detail and texture only add to the...
As part of ongoing Frasier Week festivities, we reached out to several acclaimed production designers to break down the iconic Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) apartment. We asked them what made “Frasier” such a great example of sitcom production design, and they dug deep into how the flow, colors, style, and composition all contribute to the comedy and the characters on the show. Great production design often goes unnoticed, especially on shows with a contemporary setting, but sends tons of signals to the viewer about the characters: their taste, their pretensions, their personality.
“Through the right use of lighting (or lack of), the decoration, the age, the cleanliness, a general feeling can be conveyed and then the amount of detail and texture only add to the...
- 10/11/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Five TV production designers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2023 Emmy Awards nominees. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Tuesday, August 15, at 4:00 p.m. Pt; 7:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
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The Bear (FX)
Synopsis: A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop.
Bio: Sam Lisenco is an Emmy nominee for “The Bear.” Other projects have included “Shades of Blue,” “Eighth Grade,” “Uncut Gems” and “Judas and the Black Messiah.
RSVP today to our entire ongoing contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
The Bear (FX)
Synopsis: A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop.
Bio: Sam Lisenco is an Emmy nominee for “The Bear.” Other projects have included “Shades of Blue,” “Eighth Grade,” “Uncut Gems” and “Judas and the Black Messiah.
- 8/7/2023
- by Chris Beachum and Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“It’s a show that’s close to my heart that I’ve been part of since day one, so it didn’t feel stressful or scary. It felt right and fun and like an amazing opportunity to do some really cool stuff,” says Shayne Fox, who in season four of “What We Do in the Shadows” moved from set decorator to production designer. We talked to Fox as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV production design panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“What We Do in the Shadows” continues to follow the exploits of three vampires living in Staten Island, but season four found them returning to a mansion in disrepair. “The mansion set is iconic to the show, and there we were taking sledgehammers and Sawzalls to it,” Fox remembers. “So it was pretty nuts. We added ceilings where there didn’t used to be hard...
“What We Do in the Shadows” continues to follow the exploits of three vampires living in Staten Island, but season four found them returning to a mansion in disrepair. “The mansion set is iconic to the show, and there we were taking sledgehammers and Sawzalls to it,” Fox remembers. “So it was pretty nuts. We added ceilings where there didn’t used to be hard...
- 5/26/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
How to Wreck a Vampire House? ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Crafts Comedy Out of Its Production Design
Across the first three seasons of “What We Do in the Shadows,” the most consistent source of humor has been finding ways for its creatures of darkness to fumble the mundanities of modern life; everything from dating to collecting membership dues is slightly beyond these monsters frozen in time. But Season 4 introduces a ripe new problem for the vampires to misunderstand and bungle: basic home maintenance.
The Season 3 finale saw Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Nandor (Kayvan Novak), and, unwillingly, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) depart their Staten Island lair for adventures abroad, leaving Laszlo (Matt Berry) behind to care for a reborn Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), now an unholy infant who crawled out of the energy vampire’s own corpse. In the intervening year between seasons 3 and 4, Laszlo has let the vampire’s mansion completely fall apart, to an absurd degree, and the show’s first episode back, “Reunited,” makes much of the house’s now-flooded basement,...
The Season 3 finale saw Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Nandor (Kayvan Novak), and, unwillingly, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) depart their Staten Island lair for adventures abroad, leaving Laszlo (Matt Berry) behind to care for a reborn Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), now an unholy infant who crawled out of the energy vampire’s own corpse. In the intervening year between seasons 3 and 4, Laszlo has let the vampire’s mansion completely fall apart, to an absurd degree, and the show’s first episode back, “Reunited,” makes much of the house’s now-flooded basement,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Exclusive: What We Do In The Shadows star Harvey Guillén is set to host After The Shadows, a pre-taped, social media talk show kicking off at 11 p.m. Pt immediately after the season 3 premiere on Sept. 2. The episodes will be available via TheShadowsFX via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, as well on FX’s official YouTube channel.
Guillén, who portrays Guillermo De La Cruz in the FX series, will chat with cast, crew, and celebrity fans to discuss their love of the show and to share insight into the making of season 3.
The initial guest list includes Shadows stars Kayvan Novak and Kristen Schaal, as well as Anthony Atamanuik, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and set decorator Shayne Fox, with more to be announced.
New episodes of After the Shadows will be available immediately after subsequent episodes of the show throughout the season.
The two-episode season 3 premiere begins at 10 p.m. Et/Pt...
Guillén, who portrays Guillermo De La Cruz in the FX series, will chat with cast, crew, and celebrity fans to discuss their love of the show and to share insight into the making of season 3.
The initial guest list includes Shadows stars Kayvan Novak and Kristen Schaal, as well as Anthony Atamanuik, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and set decorator Shayne Fox, with more to be announced.
New episodes of After the Shadows will be available immediately after subsequent episodes of the show throughout the season.
The two-episode season 3 premiere begins at 10 p.m. Et/Pt...
- 8/31/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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