Art Directors Guild Awards Articles

Paula Poundstone Comedian Paula Poundstone acted as host of the Art Directors Guild Awards last Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, while ADG president Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony and 65-year-old Ben Vereen (Funny Lady, All That Jazz) performed as a "special musical guest." That was Poundstone's third consecutive gig at the ADG Awards. [Full list of 2012 Art [...]

Ed Asner Veteran television and film actor Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant) was one of the presenters at the 2012 Art Directors Guild Awards held last Saturday. Winners for excellence in production design included Martin Scorsese's period film Hugo (Dante Ferretti), David Yates' fantasy film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Stuart Craig), and David Fincher's contemporary film The Girl with [...]

Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dante Ferretti, Tony Walton, Stuart Craig, Alfred Junge: Art Directors Guild Awards FEATURE FILMS Period Film THE ARTIST Production Designer: Laurence Bennett  * HUGO Production Designer: Dante Ferretti THE HELP Production Designer: Mark Ricker ANONYMOUS Production Designer: Sebastian Krawinkel TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY Production Designer: Maria Djurkovic   Fantasy Film * HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Production Designer: Stuart [...]

Martin Scorsese's Hugo (period film), David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (fantasy film), and David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (contemporary film) were the feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild's 16th Excellence in Production Design Awards, held this evening at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The respective production design winners were Dante [...]