One Battle After Another, KPop Demon Hunters Win: Art Directors Guild
One Battle After Another, Frankenstein and The Fantastic Four: First Steps were the big winners at the Art Directors Guild awards Saturday night, winning the top three live-action awards in production design. KPop Demon Hunters landed the prize for best production design in an animated film. The three live-action films — which won in contemporary, period and fantasy categories respectively — now have a leg up for the production design award at the Oscars. though Fantastic Four may be in the strongest position: The fantasy winner has nabbed the Academy Award in three of the past four years. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ was the big winner on the television side. The streamer landed three of the top prizes, for episodes of Severance, Palm Royale and The Studio. (They won for one-hour contemporary single-camera, one-hour period single-camera, and half-hour single camera, respectively.) The ADG awards, the organization’s 30th, honor “the visionary production design teams behind the year’s most visually ambitious films, television series and music projects,” according to the organization. At a moment when human-led design is under threat by AI and computer models, the awards stand as a kind of …

