Everything Everywhere All At Once is beginning to take everything this awards season. The film, along with Babylon and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery took the top film honors at the 27th annual Art Directors Guild Awards last night.
The Fantasy film won for Fantasy Feature Film while the early Hollywood epic Babylon took the Period Feature prize and Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was honored for Contemporary Feature.
Vying for the Production Design Oscar next month are the teams behind All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Elvis and The Fabelmans.
The night began with the William Cameron Menzies Award, to multi-Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, celebrating his visually striking and emotionally rich body of work.
The William Cameron Menzies Award honors an individual of extraordinary distinction and exceptional contribution to the art of motion pictures or television, a champion of production design, who therefore merits special acknowledgment for outstanding service to the entertainment industry. Past recipients include Robert Osborne, John Musker and Ron Clements, Syd Mead, and Denis Villeneuve.
Nicole Kidman presented the guild’s Cinematic Imagery award to Elvis director Baz Luhrmann and his wife and longtime producing partner Catherine Martin. “Guillermo got it so right, it’s about deep, deep collaboration,” said Luhrmann, adding, “We are so honored to be part of this storytelling community.”
TV winners tonight included del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities for television movie or limited Series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power for one-hour fantasy single-camera series, Pachinko for one-hour period single-camera series, How I Met Your Father for multi-camera series, Our Flag Means Death for half-hour single-camera series and Severance for one-hour contemporary single-camera series.
Saturday Night Live won the variety series category. The trophy was dedicated to the late Eugene Lee, who had been a production designer on the series since its launch in 1975. Lee died earlier this month at age 83.
REELated:
Yvette Nicole Brown hosted the awards for the second consecutive year at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Check out the full list below.
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Everything Everywhere All at Once; Production Designer: Jason Kisvarday
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Babylon; Production Designer: Florencia Martin
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Production Designers: Guy Davis, Curt Enderle
TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities; Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Pachinko: “Chapter One”; Production Designer: Mara LePere-Schloop
MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
How I Met Your Father: “Pilot”; Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Our Flag Means Death: “Pilot”; Production Designer: Ra Vincent
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Severance: “Good News About Hell”; Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: “Adar”; Production Designer: Ramsey Avery
VARIETY SPECIAL
94th Annual Oscars; Production Designer: David Korins
VARIETY, REALITY OR COMPETITION SERIES
Saturday Night Live: “Jack Harlow Hosts Season 48 Episode 4, Jack Harlow Musical Guest”
Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio
SHORT FORMAT: MUSIC VIDEO OR WEBSERIES
Adele “I Drink Wine”; Production Designer: Liam Moore
COMMERCIALS
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power “Title Announcement”; Production Designer: Brian Branstetter
According to Deadline, ADG’s top prize winners — for Fantasy, Period or Contemporary Feature — or has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 26 years, including the past nine in a row. Last year’s ADG’s Fantasy Film winner Dune won the Oscar.
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