One Battle After Another, Frankenstein and The Fantastic Four Win Big at the Art Directors Guild Awards

One Battle After Another,FrankensteinandThe Fantastic Four: First Stepswere the big winners at the Art Directors Guild awards Saturday night, winning the top three live-action awards in production design.KPopDemon Hunterslanded the prize for best production design in an animated film.

The three live-action films — which won in contemporary, period and fantasy categories respectively — now have a leg up for the production design award at the Oscars. thoughFantastic Fourmay be in the strongest position: The fantasy winner has nabbed the Academy Award in three of the past four years.

Meanwhile, Apple TV+ was the big winner on the television side. The streamer landed three of the top prizes, for episodes ofSeverance,Palm RoyaleandThe Studio.(They won for one-hour contemporary single-camera, one-hour period single-camera, and half-hour single camera, respectively.)

The ADG awards, the organization’s 30th, honor “the visionary production design teams behind the year’s most visually ambitious films, television series and music projects,” according to the organization.

At a moment when human-led design is under threat by AI and computer models, the awards stand as a kind of rebuttal for what machines can’t do. “The event underscored the vital role production designers and art directors play in shaping cinematic storytelling and immersive environments that define today’s most celebrated films and television series,” the ADG said in a statement.

Below is a complete list of winners:

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

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

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

***TELEVISION NOMINEES***

ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

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

ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer:Jeremy Hindle

TELEVISION MOVIE 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: “Bye, 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

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 Valentino