Saoirse Ronan in The Lovely Bones (Barry Wetcher / DreamWorks/Paramount)
Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, The Lovely Bones, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hurt Locker are five of the fifteen nominated films in the Art Directors Guild's three categories for excellence in production design in 2009. The lists' most glaring absentee is Rob Marshall's elaborate musical Nine.
In the fantasy category, joining Avatar and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are Star Trek, Where the Wild Things Are, and District 9. In the period category, Inglourious Basterds is joined by Julie & Julia, Public Enemies, Sherlock Holmes, and A Serious Man. In the contemporary category, The Hurt Locker and The Lovely Bones (not "fantasy"?) are joined by The Hangover, Up in the Air, and Angels & Demons.
In addition to Nine, other films left out of the ADG's roster are Bright Star, An Education, Broken Embraces, It's Complicated, The White Ribbon, and Red Cliff.
The Art Directors Guild winners will be announced Feb. 13 at the ADG's 14th awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. Special honorees include Warren Beatty, Terence Marsh, and Michael Baugh.
Period Film
A SERIOUS MAN, JESS GONCHOR
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, DAVID WASCO
JULIE & JULIA, MARK RICKER
PUBLIC ENEMIES, NATHAN CROWLEY
SHERLOCK HOLMES, SARAH GREENWOOD
Fantasy Film
AVATAR, RICK CARTER,
ROBERT STROMBERGDISTRICT 9, PHILIP IVEY
HARRY POTTER & THE
HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, STUART CRAIGSTAR TREK, SCOTT CHAMBLISS
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, K.K. BARRETT
Contemporary Film
ANGELS & DEMONS, ALLAN CAMERON
THE HANGOVER, BILL BRZESKI
THE HURT LOCKER, KARL JULIUSSON
THE LOVELY BONES, NAOMI SHOHAN
UP IN THE AIR, STEVE SAKLAD
Television Movie or Mini-Series
BEN 10 ALIEN SWARM, YUDA ACCO
GREY GARDENS, KALINA IVANOV
THE PRISONER, MICHAEL PICKWOAD