The Art Directors Guild has its designs on once again predicting the Oscars, following the 30th annual ADG Awards on Saturday.
Celebrating excellence in production design, the Art Directors Guild divvies up its top film prizes into Period, Contemporary, and Fantasy Feature categories, which tonight went to, respectively, Frankenstein (Tamara Deverell), One Battle After Another (Florencia Martin), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Kasra Farahani).
Two of those three — Frankenstein and One Battle After Another — are in contention for the production design Academy Award against Sinners, Hamnet, and Marty Supreme, all of which were bested by Frankenstein in the Period category at the ADG Awards.
Since the inception of the ADG Awards, the winner of one of the three top trophies has gone on to win the Best Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 20 of 29 years, and 11 of the past 12, including last year, when the Academy Award went to ADG champ Wicked.
The odds are strong for the streak to continue. Deverell’s work on Frankenstein has been the clear Oscar favorite for months, per Gold Derby prediction data, with about an 88 percent chance of winning. Sinners is the closest competitor in our rankings, with a 9 percent shot.
Elsewhere, KPop Demon Hunters kept up its dominating run by winning the ADG for animated feature, while victors on the TV side included Andor, Mid-Century Modern, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Palm Royale, Severance, The Studio, and Saturday Night Live.
In addition to the competitive trophies, several honorary awards were handed out, led by Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu receiving the 2026 Cinematic Imagery Award, and legendary two-time Oscar winner Thomas E. Sanders (Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Crimson Peak, Star Trek Beyond) being inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame.
Here are the 2026 ADG Awards winners:
FILM
BEST PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Frankenstein
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
BEST FANTASY FEATURE FILM
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
BEST CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
One Battle After Another
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
KPop Demon Hunters
Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
TELEVISION
BEST ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martinis Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve”
Production Designer: Jon Carlos
BEST ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Andor: “Who Are You?”
Production Designer: Luke Hull
BEST ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
BEST TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson
BEST HALF-HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
The Studio: “The Note”
Production Designer: Julie Berghoff
BEST MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
BEST VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES
Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host”
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti
BEST VARIETY SPECIAL
SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
BEST COMMERCIAL
Prada: “Galleria Bag”
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
BEST SHORT-FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEO
Apple — Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 With Active Noise Cancellation”
Production Designer: Shane Valentino
Special Honors
ADG Hall of Fame Inductee: Thomas E. Sanders (Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Crimson Peak, Star Trek Beyond)
ADG President’s Award: Rep. Laura Friedman
Cinematic Imagery Award: Jon M. Chu (Wicked, Wicked: For Good, In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians)
Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
- Bo Welch (AD Lifetime Achievement)
- Jann Engel (SDMM Lifetime Achievement)
- Tom Southwell (IMA Lifetime Achievement)
- Stephen McNally (STG Lifetime Achievement)
