Art Directors Guild Awards (ADG) 2026 Nominations: Complete list of nominees explored 

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The Art Directors Guild Awards, aka Excellence in Production Design Awards, announced its nominations for this year’s award ceremony. The nominees for a total of thirteen categories of the Art Guild Directors Awards.

The nominations for the Art Directors Guild Awards are broadly divided into two categories, Feature Film and Television. The ceremony will honor works from movies, TV, commercials, and more.

Movies like Hamnet, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Frankenstein, Bugonia, Sinners, F1, Marty Supreme, and more have been nominated under Feature Film division across different categories of the Art Directors Guild. Shows like Stranger Things, Pluribus, Severance, Wednesday, and more earned nominations in different categories of Television.

This year, the Art Directors Guild Awards, also marks its 30th anniversary.


List of nominations for Art Directors Guild Awards

Here’s the complete rundown of nominations for the Art Directors Guild Awards:

Feature Film for Art Directors Guild Awards

PERIOD FEATURE FILM

  • Frankenstein- Production Designer: Tamara Deverell
  • Hamnet - Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
  • Marty Supreme - Production Designer: Jack Fisk
  • The Phoenician Scheme - Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
  • Sinners - Production Designer: Hannah Beachler

FANTASY FEATURE FILM

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash - Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Production Designer: Kasra Farahani
  • Mickey 17 - Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
  • Superman - Production Designer: Beth Mickle
  • Wicked: For Good - Production Designer: Nathan Crowley

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM

  • Bugonia - Production Designer: James Price
  • F1 - Production Designers: Ben Munro, Mark Tildesley
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Production Designer: Gary Freeman
  • One Battle After Another - Production Designer: Florencia Martin
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

  • The Bad Guys 2 - Production Designer: Luc Desmarchelier
  • Elio - Production Designer: Harley Jessup
  • KPop Demon Hunters - Production Designers: Mingjue Helen Chen, Dave Bleich
  • The Spongebob Movie: Search for Squarepants - Production Designer: Sean Haworth, Animation Production Designer: Pablo R. Mayer
  • Zootopia 2- Production Designer: Cory Loftis

Television for Art Directors Guild Awards

ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

  • The Gilded Age: “If You Want to Cook an Omlette” (Production Designer: Bob Shaw)
  • House of Guinness: “Episode 101” (Production Designers: Richard Bullock)
  • It: Welcome to Derry “The Blackspot” (Production Designer: Paul Austerberry)
  • 1923 “Wrap Thee in Terror” (Production Designers: Cary White, Lisa Ward)
  • Palm Royale: “Maxine Drinks Martini’s Now,” “Maxine Serves a Swerve” (Production Designer: Jon Carlos)

ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

  • Andor: “Who Are You?” (Production Designer: Luke Hull)
  • Alien: Earth: “Neverland” (Production Designer: Andy Nicholson)
  • The Last of Us: “Day One” (Production Designer: Don MacAulay)
  • Stranger Things: “Chapter Four: Sorcerer” (Production Designer: Chris Trujillo)
  • Wednesday: “Chapter Four – If These Woes Could Talk” (Production Designer: Mark Scruton)

ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

  • Pluribus: “Grenade” (Production Designer: Denise Pizzini)
  • Severance: “Chikhai Bardo” (Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle)
  • Slow Horses: “Incommunicado,” “Tall Tales” (Production Designer: Choi Ho Man)
  • The Pitt: “7:00 A.M.” (Production Designer: Nina Ruscio)
  • The White Lotus: “Amor Fati” (Production Designer: Cristina Onori)

TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

  • Adolescence (Production Designer: Adam Tomlinson)
  • Black Mirror: “USS Callister: Into Infinity” (Production Designer: Miranda Jones)
  • Black Rabbit (Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando)
  • Death By Lightning (Production Designer: Gemma Jackson)
  • Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Production Designer: Matthew Flood Ferguson)

HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

  • The Bear: “Bears” (Production Designer: Merje Veski)
  • Hacks: “A Slippery Slope” (Production Designer: Rob Tokarz)
  • Murderbot: “FreeCommerce” (Production Designer: Sue Chan)
  • Only Murders in the Building: “The House Always…” (Production Designer: Patrick Howe)
  • The Studio: “The Note” (Production Designer: Julie Berghoff)

MULTI-CAMERA SERIES

  • Mid-Century Modern: “Bye, George” (Production Designer: Glenda Rovello)
  • Mid-Century Modern: “Love Thy Neighbor” (Production Designer: Greg J. Grande)
  • Poppa’s House: “Baby Girl,” “Magic Shine Again” (Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter)
  • Vampirina: Teenage Vampire: “First Nightmare” (Production Designer: Maggie Ruder)
  • Wizards Beyond Waverly Place: “The Wizard at the End of the World Part II” (Production Designer: Kelly Hogan)

VARIETY OR REALITY SERIES

  • Dancing with the Stars: “Wicked Night” (Production Designer: James Yarnell)
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!: “Jimmy Kimmel Live Brooklyn” (Production Designer: David Ellis)
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “Kids Pitch” (Production Designers: Jim Fenhagen, Larry Hartman)
  • Saturday Night Live: “Lady Gaga Host” (Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio, Andrea Purcigliotti)
  • Squid Game: The Challenge “Catch” (Production Designers: Mathieu Weekes, Ben Norman)

VARIETY SPECIAL

  • Atsuko Okatsuka: Father
  • Production Designer: Gary Kordan
  • Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful
  • Production Designer: David Meyer
  • 78th Annual Tony Awards with Host Cynthia Erivo
  • Production Designer: Steve Bass
  • SNL 50: The Anniversary Special
  • Production Designers: Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph De Tullio
  • Wicked: One Wonderful Night
  • Production Designer: Misty Buckley

Art Directors Guild Awards for COMMERCIALS

  • Anderson: “Trust Your Home to Anderson” (Production Designer: Natalie Groce)
  • Prada: “Galleria Bag” (Production Designer: Florencia Martin)
  • State Farm “Batman vs Bateman” (Production Designer: David Skinner)
  • Target – “Step into the Holidays” (Production Designer: Nelson Coates)
  • Xbox: ROG Xbox Ally – “Dancing in the Dark – Launch Trailer” (Production Designer: Florencia Martin)

Art Directors Guild Awards for SHORT FORMAT & MUSIC VIDEOS

  • Apple – Someday by Spike Jonze: “AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancelation”
  • Production Designer: Shane Valentino
  • Coldplay: “All My Love”
  • Production Designer: Florencia Martin
  • Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra”
  • Production Designer: Wesley Goodrich
  • Sabrina Carpenter: “Tears”
  • Production Designer: Brittany Porter
  • Taylor Swift: “The Fate of Ophelia”
  • Production Designer: Ethan Tobman

Also read: 46th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (BSFC): Complete winners list explored

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Edited by Sohini Biswas