Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another, Netflix’s Frankenstein again KPop Demon Hunters and Disney/Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps received top film honors at the 30th annual Art Directors Guild awards, presented Saturday night at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. See the full list of winners below.
FrankensteinDeverell and Vieau and One WarMartin and Carlino will claim the Best Production Design Oscar in two weeks with the designers and decorators behind the Best Picture nominees Sinners, Hamnet again Marty Supreme.
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Since the ADG awards were launched in 1996, one of the period, contemporary or fantasy film winners has won the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 20 of the 29 years. including 2025, when They are not bad production designer Nathan Crowley and set decorator Lee Sandales took home an Academy Award two weeks after their ADG win.
Kasra Farahani got something of an upset by winning Disney/Marvel’s Fantasy Feature award Fantastic Four: First Steps over competition including Image: Fire and Ashes again Bad: Good.
KPop Demon Hunters production designers Mingjue Helen Chen and Dave Bleich won the award for first film of the night, for Animated Feature. Netflix’s most-watched movie of all time is on the latest awards list, sweeping the Annie Awards last Saturday before being awarded a VES Award and an Eddie Award this week.
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Three Apple TV series won ADGs tonight. Emmy winner Julie Berghoff Studio took the Half Hour Single Camera Series award, Jeremy Hindle won the One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series award Separation and Jon Carlos followed by taking the Period-Single-Camera award The Palm Royale.
Luke Hull won the award for One-Hour Fantasy Series on Disney+ which has now wrapped Andor. I star Wars the series also won at the VES Awards on Wednesday. He was unable to attend the ADG event as he was working in the UK.
Hulu’s Glenda Rovello season one Mid-Century Modern won by multiple camera series.
Production designers Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio and Andrea Purcigliott took home the award for Variety or Reality Series for NBC’s Lady Gaga-hosted episode Saturday Night Live. The trio of Yoshimura, Raywood and De Tullio followed with another win SNL 50: The Anniversary Special
The Monster: The Ed Gein StoryMatthew Flood Ferguson won for TV Movie or Limited Series.
The organization presented a number of special awards this evening. They are not bad again Bad: Good filmmaker Jon M. Chu accepted the 2026 Motion Picture Award at his The rich of Asia star Awkwafina. Before helping the blockbuster They are not bad films – which collectively grossed more than $1.28 billion worldwide – Chu helped features such as At the heighta documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Jem and the Holograms and in succession Now You See Me, GI Joe again step up. He continues Hot Wheels, a live-action take on Mattel’s toy car franchise, among other projects.
Representative Laura Friedman (D-CA), received the first Presidential Award. A former producer and alum of HBO, Paramount and other entertainment companies, he has been involved in the biz since joining the California Assembly and since succeeding Adam Schiff in the House of Representatives. Friedman was honored for his consistent support of the good works of unions and his advocacy of federal and state tax incentives. He continues to fight for the most important federal tax bills.
The four Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented for extraordinary contributions and lasting impact in various fields by the recipients. First to go was set designer and art director Jann Engel. He won the ADG award three times Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Endgame and a Call of Duty ad whose credits include many images of heroes including Captain Marvel again Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Production designer Thomas E. Sanders, two-time Oscar nominee Saving Private Ryan again Bram Stoker’s Dracula he also worked A brave heart and many other films, will be posthumously inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame. He died of cancer in 2017 at the age of 63.
Black Men helmer Barry Sonnenfeld presented the evening’s second work honor to production designer Bo Welch. He has been nominated four times for the Oscars Men in Black, The Birdcage, A Little Princess again Purple Color and two-time Emmy nominee whose credits include these two men in Black pictures, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Wild Wild West, A Series of Unfortunate Events again Schmigadoon!
Scenic artist Stephen McNally also received a lifetime achievement honor this evening. His resume includes films like Poison and its sequence, Steve Jobs, Twisted, What Dreams May Come again Flubber and TV series Trauma again Parenthood. It was introduced by “colleague, friend and paint slinger” James Shefik.
Storyboard artist and production designer Tom Southwell received final billing. Many of his films cover different genres since Blade Runner, The Muppet Movie, Romance the Stone again The Goons to Golden Child, Major League again City Slickers to Mission: Impossible, X-Men again Star Trek: Nemesis. Rin Underwood presented the award.
Production designer Thomas E. Sanders, two-time Oscar nominee Saving Private Ryan again Bram Stoker’s Dracula he also worked A brave heart and many other films, were posthumously inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame. One of Thomas’ achievements was his work with Guillermo del Toro during the horror-thriller. Crimson Peakits gothic, richly textured and haunting production design defines the tone and atmosphere of the film. His last project was with Justin Lin Star Trek Beyond in 2015.
Writer-director Randall Wallace made the announcement. Thomas died of cancer in 2017 at the age of 63.
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The In Memoriam section paid tribute to several professionals we lost last year: Vance Lorenzini, Stuart Craig, Scott Herbertson, Noele King, E. Jay Krause, Julia Levine, Dean Mitzner, Stephen Runninger, Frankie Smith, Jonathan Velasco, Les Dilley and Barbara Hall.
Veteran comedian, actor and voice-over artist Ron Funches hosted the show, which celebrated the creation of the world through motion pictures, television, shorts and music videos and commercials.
Here are the winners of ADG’s 2026 Excellence in Production Design Awards:
REAL MOVIE TIME
Frankenstein
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
ONE HOUR SINGLE CAMERA Series
Palm Royale: “Maxine’s Drinking a Martini Now,” “Maxine’s Working for a Swerve”
Production Designer: Jon Carlos
THE FILM OF TIME
One Battle After Another
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
ONE HOUR SERIES ONE CAMERA AT A TIME
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
GUARANTEE FILM
Fantastic Four: First Steps
Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
ONE HOUR FANTASY-SINGLE-CHEMERA SERIES
Andor: “Who are you?”
Production Designer: Luke Hull
SPECIAL TYPES
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
SUBJECTS OR FACTS Series
Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host”
Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliott
THE SALESMEN
Prada: “Galleria bag”
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
SHORT FORM AND MUSIC VIDEOS
Apple – Another Day by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation”
Production Designer: Shane Valentin
TELEVISION MOVIE OR SEARCH HIGH
The Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson
GUARANTEE FILM
KPop Demon Hunters
Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
SINGLE CAMERA HOUR PROGRAM
Studio: “Note”
Production Designer: Julie Berghoff
MULTIPLE CAMERA SELECTION
Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George”
Production Designer: Glenda Rovello
