The Art Directors Guild Awards and AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards have unveiled their nominee lists. While there are some expected contenders, there are also some surprise snubs.
The Art Directors Guild honors the work of production design artists across various cinematic mediums in five categories: Fantasy, Period, and Contemporary Features. In almost 18 years of its 27-year run, one winner from one of these groups has won the Art Direction/Production Oscar category. Their previous run of nine Oscar wins lasted until All Quiet on the Western Front won the Oscar despite the ADG’s votes to the contrary.
Meanwhile, the Movies for Grownups Awards focuses on film industry members over fifty years old and their work for mature audiences. According to AARP film and TV critic Tim Appelo, Movies for Grownups is meant to “ignite cultural change in Hollywood” and combat “industry ageism.” For this year, AARP nominated features like Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie. While actors like Viola Davis and Nichoas Cage gained recognition this year-round, Lily Gladstone was neglected from this year’s run.
AARP will announce its winners in the upcoming February/March issue of AARP The Magazine. Meanwhile, the ADG will have its ceremony on February 10th at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. At this ceremony, the late production designer Lawrence G. Paull, known for his work in Blade Runner and Back to the Future, will be inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame.
Here are the lists for both awards:
Art Directors Guild Awards
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
Asteroid City
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Killers of the Flower Moon
Production Designer: Jack Fisk
Maestro
Production Designer: Kevin Thompson
Napoleon
Production Designer: Arthur Max
Oppenheimer
Production Designer: Ruth De Jong
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
Barbie
Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood
The Creator
Production Designer: James Clyne
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Production Designer: Beth Mickle
Poor Things
Production Designers: James Price, Shona Heath
Wonka
Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
Beau Is Afraid
Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
John Wick: Chapter 4
Production Designer: Kevin Kavanaugh
The Killer
Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Production Designer: Gary Freeman
Saltburn
Production Designer: Suzie Davies
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Art Director: Yoji Takeshinge
Elemental
Production Designer: Don Shank
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Production Designer: Patrick O’Keefe
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Production Designer: Guillaume Aretos
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Production Designer: Yashar Kassai
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
Barbie
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Best Actress
Annette Bening (Nyad)
Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things)
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin)
Helen Mirren (Golda)
Julia Roberts (Leave the World Behind)
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage (Dream Scenario)
Colman Domingo (Rustin)
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
Anthony Hopkins (Freud’s Last Session)
Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (Air)
Jodie Foster (Nyad)
Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple)
Julianne Moore (May December)
Leslie Uggams (American Fiction)
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)
Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Colman Domingo (The Color Purple)
Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
Best Director
Ben Affleck (Air)
Michael Mann (Ferrari)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Alexander Payne (The Holdovers)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Best Screenwriter
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
David Hemingson (The Holdovers)
Tony McNamara (Poor Things)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Best Ensemble
American Fiction
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Rustin
Best Intergenerational Film
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Holdovers
Leave the World Behind
Poor Things
Best Time Capsule
Ferrari
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Priscilla
Rustin
Best Documentary
Invisible Beauty
Judy Blume Forever
The Lost Weekend
The Pigeon Tunnel
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.
Best Foreign Film
Amerikatsi (Armenia)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Radical (Mexico)
The Taste of Things (France)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)
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