The Art Directors Guild‘s 30th anniversary Excellence in Production Design Awards for film, TV and theater are being handed out tonight at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, and Deadline is updating the winners live as they are announced. See the list below, followed by the remaining nominees.
KPop Demon Hunters production designers Mingjue Helen Chen and Dave Bleich won the first film award of the night, for Animated Feature. Netflix’s most-watched film of all time is on an awards roll of late, sweeping the Annie Awards last Saturday before scooping and a VES Award and Eddie Award this week.
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The guild boasting 3,000-plus members divides its top film prizes into Fantasy, Period and Contemporary Feature categories. Since the ADG Awards launched in 1996, the winner of one of those has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 20 of the 29 years. including 2025, when Wicked production designer Nathan Crowley and set decorator Lee Sandales took home the Academy Award two weeks after their ADG win. See this year’s Production Design Oscar nominees here.
Julie Berghoff of Apple TV’s Emmy winner The Studio and Glenda Rovello of Hulu’s now-wrapped Mid-Century Modern took the first two prizes of the night, for Half-Hour Single Camera Series and Multi-Camera Series, respectively.
Production designers Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio and Andrea Purcigliott took the Variety or Reality Series prize for the Lady Gaga-hosted episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The trio of Yoshimura, Raywood and De Tullio followed with another win for the SNL 50: The Anniversary Special
Monster: The Ed Gein Story‘s Matthew Flood Ferguson won for TV Movie or Limited Series.
The guild handed out a number of special honors tonight. Wicked and Wicked: For Good filmmaker Jon M. Chu accepted the 2026 Cinematic Imagery Award from his Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina. Before helming the blockbuster Wicked films — which together have grossed more than $1.28 billion worldwide — Chu helmed such features as In the Heights, documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Jem and the Holograms and sequels to Now You See Me, G.I. Joe and Step Up. He is working on Hot Wheels, a live-action take on Mattel’s iconic toy car franchise, among other projects.
Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA), received for the inaugural President’s Award. A former producer and alum of HBO, Paramount and other entertainment industry companies, she has been an ally of the biz since joining the California Assembly and since she succeeded Adam Schiff in the House of Representatives. Friedman was honored for steadfast support of good union jobs and her advocacy of state and federal tax incentives. She continues to fight for all-important federal tax credits.
Four Lifetime Achievement Awards are being handed out. The first went set designer and art director Jann Engel. She’s a three-time ADG Award winner for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Endgame and a Call of Duty ad whose credits also include many superhero pics including Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
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Production designer Thomas E. Sanders, a two-time Oscar nominee for Saving Private Ryan and Bram Stoker’s Dracula who also worked on Braveheart and many other films, will be inducted posthumously into the ADG Hall of Fame. He died of cancer in 2017 at 63.
Men in Black helmer Barry Sonnenfeld presented the evening’s second career honor to production designer Bo Welch. He’s a four-time Oscar nominee for Men in Black, The Birdcage, A Little Princess and The Color Purple and a two-time Emmy nominee whose credits also include the other two men in Black pics, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Wild Wild West, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Schmigadoon!
Other career awards will be presented to storyboard artist and production designer Tom Southwell and scenic artist Stephen McNally. The ADG said those honors recognize of their exceptional contributions and lasting impact on their respective disciplines.
Veteran comic, actor and voice-over specialist Ron Funches is hosting the show that celebrates world-building spanning 14 categories in motion pictures, television, shorts and music videos and commercials.
Here are the winners of the ADG’s 2026 AExcellence in Production Design Awards revealed thus far, followed by the remaining nominees:
Winners
VARIETY SPECIAL
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES
Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host”
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliott
COMMERCIALS
Prada: “Galleria Bag”
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
SHORT FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEOS
Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancelation”
Production Designer: Shane Valentin
TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
KPop Demon Hunters
Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
The Studio: “The Note”
Production Designer: Julie Berghoff
MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
Nominees
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Frankenstein
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
Hamnet
Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Marty Supreme
Production Designer: Jack Fisk
The Phoenician Scheme
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Sinners
Production Designer: Hannah Beachler
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
Mickey 17
Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Superman
Production Designer: Beth Mickle
Wicked: For Good
Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Bugonia
Production Designer: James Price
F1
Production Designers: Ben Munro, Mark Tildesley
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Production Designer: Gary Freeman
One Battle After Another
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
The Gilded Age: “If You Want to Cook an Omlette”
Production Designer: Bob Shaw
House of Guinness: “Episode 101”
Production Designers: Richard Bullock
It: Welcome to Derry “The Blackspot”
Production Designer: Paul Austerberry
1923 “Wrap Thee in Terror”
Production Designers: Cary White, Lisa Ward
Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martini’s Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve”
Production Designer: Jon Carlos
ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Andor: “Who Are You?”
Production Designer: Luke Hull
Alien: Earth: “Neverland”
Production Designer: Andy Nicholson
The Last of Us: “Day One”
Production Designer: Don MacAulay
Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Sorcerer”
Production Designer: Chris Trujillo
Wednesday: “Chapter Four – If These Woes Could Talk”
Production Designer: Mark Scruton
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Pluribus: “Grenade”
Production Designer: Denise Pizzini
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
Slow Horses: “Incommunicado,” “Tall Tales”
Production Designer: Choi Ho Man
The Pitt: “7:00 A.M.”
Production Designer: Nina Ruscio
The White Lotus: “Amor Fati”
Production Designer: Cristina Onori
