Award winning Production Designer Michael Baugh will receive the Creative Leadership Award at the 2010 Art Directors Guild (ADG) Awards ceremony on February 13, 2010. The award will be presented at a black-tie gathering at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The information below is from the ADG's press release:
Baugh is being honored for serving on the Board of the Art Directors Guild in various positions for more than 30 years – longer than any other designer in the Guild’s history – including two terms as President. He is currently the Treasurer, and also edits Perspective, the Guild’s bi-monthly magazine. He has produced the annual ADG Awards event twice, and created the Guild's non-profit Center for Film and Television Design.
Multiple Emmy winning Production Designer and Art Directors Guild officer, Michael Baugh, a Los Angeles native, studied stage design and lighting at Yale University before returning home and beginning a 45 year career in television and feature films. Directly out of college, he had the good fortune to contact ADG Hall of Fame designer Romain Johnston at the exact moment he needed help, and became his assistant. Their partnership continued for three more years, until Baugh was moved up to design a series on his own. At twenty-five years old, he was the youngest production designer in network television. For the next seven years, his work included musical and variety series for Jim Nabors and Leslie Uggams and specials for Doris Day, Dick Van Dyke, and Bill Cosby.
A two-year staff position at KCET’s then-new facilities allowed Baugh to stretch his talents, designing five classic PBS dramatic specials, including George Bernard Shaw’s Man of Destiny and Sean O’Casey’s Shadow of a Gunman. This experience led him directly into film, and during his long career, he designed more than 70 television movies and miniseries, along with over 800 episodes of television series, and 12 feature films. He has been nominated 10 times for an Emmy Award, and has won three of them, for series such as Columbo, and Nothing Sacred, and for television movies such as Buffalo Soldiers, Blind Ambition and American Tragedy. He has also been nominated six times for Art Directors Guild Awards.
Nominations for the 14th ADG Awards will be announced on January 8, 2010. On awards night, February 13, the ADG will present winners in nine competitive categories for theatrical films, television productions and commercials, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Production Designer Terence Marsh and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery, which is being given to Warren Beatty. In addition, there will also be a presentation of the three newest Production Designers to be inducted into the ADG’s Hall of Fame: Malcolm F. Brown, Bob Keene and Ferdinando Scarfiotti.
Photo: Courtesy of the Art Directors Guild