Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another, Netflix’s Frankenstein and KPop Demon Hunters and Disney/Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps took top film honors at the 30th anniversay Art Directors Guild Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. See the full winners list below.
Frankenstein’s Deverell and Vieau and One Battle’s Martin and Carlino will vie for the Best Production Design Oscar in two weeks along with the designers and decorators behind Best Picture nominees Sinners, Hamnet and Marty Supreme.
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Since the ADG Awards launched in 1996, one of its winners for Period, Contemporary or Fantasy film 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.
Kasra Farahani scored something of an upset by winning the Fantasy Feature prize for Disney/Marvel’s Fantastic Four: The First Steps over competition including Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good.
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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Three Apple TV series won ADGs tonight. Julie Berghoff of Emmy winner The Studio took the Half Hour Single Camera Series Prize, Jeremy Hindle won the One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series award for Severance and Jon Carlos followed by taking the Period Single-Camera prize for Palm Royale.
Luke Hull won the One-Hour Fantasy Series award for Disney+’s now-wrapped Andor. The Star Wars series also had a win at the VES Awards on Wednesday. He was unable to attend the ADG ceremony while working the UK.
Glenda Rovello of Hulu’s one-season Mid-Century Modern won for Multi-Camera Series.
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 for exceptional contributions and lasting impact on the recipients’ respective disciplines. 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.
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!
Scenic artist Stephen McNally also got a lifetime honor tonight. His resume includes such films as Venom and its sequel, Steve Jobs, Twisted, What Dreams May Come and Flubber along with TV series Trauma and Parenthood. It was presented by his “colleague, friend and fellow paint slinger” James Shefik.
Storyboard artist and production designer Tom Southwell got the last tribute. His dozens of films spanning various genres range from Blade Runner, The Muppet Movie, Romancing the Stone and The Goonies to The Golden Child, Major League and City Slickers to Mission: Impossible, X-Men and Star Trek: Nemesis. Rin Underwood presented the award.
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, was inducted posthumously into the ADG Hall of Fame. One of Thomas’ proudest achievements was his work with Guillermo del Toro on the period horror-thriller Crimson Peak, whose gothic, richly textured and haunting production design defined the film’s tone and atmosphere. His final project was Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond in 2015.
Writer-director Randall Wallace made the induction. Thomas died of cancer in 2017 at 63.
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The In Memoriam segment paid tribute to a number of professionals we lost during the past 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 comic, actor and voice-over specialist Ron Funches hosted the show, which celebrated world-building in motion pictures, television, shorts and music videos and commercials.
Here are the winners of the ADG’s 2026 Excellence in Production Design Awards:
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Frankenstein
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martini’s Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve”
Production Designer: Jon Carlos
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
One Battle After Another
Production Designer: Florencia Martin
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
Andor: “Who Are You?”
Production Designer: Luke Hull
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
