Art Directors Guild 2026 Awards Winners List

“Frankenstein,” One Battle After Another” and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” won top film honors at the 30th Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) Excellence in Production Design Awards.

The awards were presented Saturday evening at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

TV winners included ‘Andor’, ‘Severance’ and ‘The Studio’.

The event celebrated the visionary production design teams behind the year’s most visually ambitious films, television series and music projects, recognizing outstanding achievements in the art of cinematic and episodic world-building.

Martin also won a second prize for her work on the Prada “Galleria Bag” commercial.

Now that Oscar voting is open, Deverell and Martin have both been nominated in the production design category. The other nominees are for “Hamnet” (Production design: Fiona Crombie; Set decoration: Alice Felton),
“Marty Supreme” (production design: Jack Fisk; set decoration: Adam Willis) and “Sinners” (production design: Hannah Beachler; set decoration: Monique Champagne).

“Kpop Demon Hunters” continued its winning streak and received the ADG Award for Feature Animation. This past week it won 10 Annie Awards, including Best Feature Film and three Visual Effects Society trophies. It also won the Producers Guild award.

The guild presented a special award tonight to filmmaker Jon M. Chu, who received the Cinematic Imagery Award. Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) received the President’s Award set. Production designer Thomas E. Sanders (“Saving Private Ryan” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”) was posthumously inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame. The guild presented four Lifetime Achievement Awards. The winners included set designer and art director Jann Engel. Production designer Bo Welch. Production designer Tom Southwell and scenic artist Stephen McNally.

Welch, whose credits include “Men in Black,” “The Birdcage” and “Beetlejuice,” dedicated his award to “my brilliant, beautiful wife Catherine O’Hara and our sons Matthew and Luke, all of whom inspire me daily and are my greatest achievement of my entire life.” O’Hara died last month at her home in Los Angeles and was married to Welch.

During her speech, Friedman vowed to defend the film and television industries. Friedman, who has fought for national film credit, began her speech by talking about how movies show the world what America is. “It’s the reason why people immigrated here in the first place. It’s the reason why people in other countries who don’t enjoy these freedoms understand what that would mean for their lives and for the lives of their children. So what you do touches hearts and minds.”

Friedman told the room that she had stopped reading from the teleprompter and was speaking from her heart. She said, “We’re going to finish the work of a national film tax credit because Hollywood is worth fighting for. The film industry is worth fighting for.”

She said: “I will defend this industry. I will defend it against production offshoring. I will defend it as much as possible against corporate consolidation. I will absolutely defend it against AI taking away the work of artists.” Friedman continued, “We’re going to fight for it in Georgia, New York, New Jersey, across the country, because if we have a strong film and TV industry, America will succeed. So we will continue to work on this tax break. I have great confidence that we will make it happen for you.”

Chu mourned the end of his “evil” journey. When he accepted his award, he said, “Have you ever put so much love into something like true love that you never wanted it to end, like it hurts, like it physically hurts your stomach to think of your life without it.” He said, “That’s where I am now with ‘Wicked.’ This is how it feels for me to say goodbye to ‘Wicked’, because this may be one of the last times I can celebrate it.” He spoke about the craft of production design and called on those he had worked with throughout his career, from Nelson Coates (“In the Heights”) to Nathan Crowley (“Wicked”). Chu called filmmaking “an empathy exercise that has been built into our culture for generations, and design makes this possible. It is the official language of this compound.” He said to the room of production designer and set decorators, “You are not just designers. I think you are explorers.”

Full list of winners of the 30th ADG Awards below:

NOMINATED FEATURE FILM:

PERIOD FEATURE FILM

“Frankenstein”
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell

FANTASY FEATURE FILM

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps”
Production Designer: Kasra Farahani

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM

“One battle after another”
Production Designer: Florencia Martin

ANIMATION FEATURE FILM

“KPop Demon Hunters”
Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich

NOMINEES FOR TELEVISION:

ONE-HOUR SINGLE CAMERA SERIES

Palm Royale: “Maxine is now drinking martinis”, “Maxine is serving a way out”
Production Designer: Jon Carlos

ONE HOUR SINGLE CAMERA FANTASY SERIES

Andor: “Who are you?”
Production Designer: Luke Hull

ONE HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE CAMERA SERIES

Secession: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle

TELEVISION FILM OR LIMITED SERIES

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson

HALF-HOUR SINGLE CAMERA SERIES

The Studio: “The Note”
Production Designer: Julie Berghoff

MULTI-CAMERA SERIES

Mid-Century Modern: “Hi, George”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello

VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES

Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga host”
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti

VARIETY SPECIAL

SNL50: The anniversary special
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio

COMMERCIALISTS

Prada: “Galleria bag”
Production Designer: Florencia Martin

SHORT FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEOS

Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation”
Production Designer: Shane Valentino