'Frankenstein', 'One Battle After Another' and 'The Fantastic Four' win at Art Directors Guild Awards

'Frankenstein', 'One Battle After Another' and 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' win top film honours at 30th ADGA

Frankenstein, One Battle After Another and The Fantastic Four: First Steps were among the top winners at the 30th Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards.

The ceremony, organised by IATSE Local 800, took place at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown and honoured production design teams across film, television and short-form projects.

Frankenstein won in the period feature film category for production designer Tamara Deverell. The Fantastic Four: First Steps took the fantasy feature film prize, recognising the work of production designer Kasra Farahani. One Battle After Another won the contemporary feature film, with Florencia Martin collecting the award.

In animation, KPop Demon Hunters continued its awards run by winning the feature animation category for production designers Mingjue Helen Chen and Dave Bleich.

Television winners included Andor for a one-hour fantasy single-camera series, Severance for a one-hour contemporary single-camera series and The Studio for a half-hour single-camera series. Saturday Night Live won in both the variety or reality series and variety special categories.

Special honours were also presented during the evening. Filmmaker Jon M. Chu received the Cinematic Imagery Award. Accepting the prize, Chu said: “Have you ever put so much love into something like true love that you never wanted it to end like it hurts, like it physically hurts your stomach to think about your life without it.”

Referring to Wicked, he added: “That’s where I’m at right now with ‘Wicked.’ That’s what it feels like for me to say goodbye to ‘Wicked,’ because this may be one of the last times I get to celebrate it.”

Representative Laura Friedman was presented with the President’s Award and told the audience, “We are going to finish the job of having a national film tax credit, because Hollywood is worth fighting for. The film industry is worth fighting for.”