"Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Up in the Air," "District 9," "Inglourious Basterds" and "A Serious Man" are among the nominees for the Art Directors Guild’s 14th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2009.
The ADG separates its feature film nominees into three categories — Period Film, Fantasy Film and Contemporary Film — making them less helpful as an Oscar precursor, but more inclusive of the art of production design.
In the category of "Awards, Music or Game Shows," incidentally, the nominees included last year’s Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globes and CMT Music Awards. The final nomination went not to the Academy Awards, but to a special Hawaii edition of "Wheel of Fortune."
The nominees:
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2009:
Period Film
A SERIOUS MAN
Production Designer: JESS GONCHOR
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Production Designer: DAVID WASCO
JULIE & JULIA
Production Designer: MARK RICKER
PUBLIC ENEMIES
Production Designer: NATHAN CROWLEY
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Production Designer: SARAH GREENWOOD
Fantasy Film
AVATAR
Production Designer: RICK CARTER, ROBERT STROMBERG
DISTRICT 9
Production Designer: PHILIP IVEY
HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Production Designer:STUART CRAIG
STAR TREK
Production Designer: SCOTT CHAMBLISS
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Production Designer: K.K. BARRETT
Contemporary Film
ANGELS & DEMONS
Production Designer: ALLAN CAMERON
THE HANGOVER
Production Designer: BILL BRZESKI
THE HURT LOCKER
Production Designer: KARL JULIUSSON
THE LOVELY BONES
Production Designer: NAOMI SHOHAN
UP IN THE AIR
Production Designer: STEVE SAKLAD
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN IN TELEVISION FOR 2009:
Single Camera Television Series
GLEE
Episode: PILOT
Production Designer: MARK HUTMAN
MAD MEN
Episode: SOUVENIR
Production Designer: DAN BISHOP
PUSHING DAISIES
Episode: KERPLUNK
Production Designer: MICHAEL WYLIE
TRUE BLOOD
Episode: NEVER LET ME GO
Production Designer: SUZUKI INGERSLEV
UGLY BETTY
Episode: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE MODE
Production Designer: MARK WORTHINGTON
Television Movie or Mini-Series
BEN 10 ALIEN SWARM
Production Designer: YUDA ACCO
GREY GARDENS
Production Designer: KALINA IVANOV
THE PRISONER
Production Designer: MICHAEL PICKWOAD
Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series
30 ROCK
Episode: APOLLO, APOLLO
Production Designer: KEITH IAN RAYWOOD, TERESA MASTROPIERRO
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
Episode: EVICTED
Production Designer: DAN BUTTS
MODERN FAMILY
Episode: COAL DIGGER
Production Designer: RICHARD BERG
THE OFFICE
Episode:NIAGARA
Production Designer: MICHAEL GALLENBERG
WEEDS
Episode:DUCKS AND TIGERS
Production Designer: JOSEPH P. LUCKY
Episode of a Multi-Camera, Variety, or Unscripted Series
THE BIG BANG THEORY
Episode: THE ADHESIVE DUCK DEFICIENCY
Production Designer: JOHN SHAFFNER
THE JAY LENO SHOW
Episode: 51
Production Designer: R. BRANDT DANIELS
HELL’S KITCHEN
Episode: 604
Production Designer: JOHN JANAVS
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Episode: OLD KING CLANCY
Production Designer: STEPHAN OLSON
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Episode: HOST – JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Production Designer: EUGENE LEE, AKIRA YOSHIMURA, KEITH IAN RAYWOOD
Awards, Music, or Game Shows
2009 CMT MUSIC AWARDS
Production Designer: ANNE BRAHIC
51st ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS
Production Designer: BRIAN STONESTREET, STEVE BASS
61st ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS
Production Designer: STEVE BASS
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66th GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
Production Designer: BRIAN STONESTREET
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
EPISODE: ON LOCATION IN HAWAII
Production Designer: RENEE HOSS-JOHNSON
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS FOR 2009:
ABSOLUT ANTHEM
Commercial: IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD
Production Designer: JAMES CHINLUND
HEWLETT PACKARD
Commercial: IN THE AIR
Production Designer: CHRISTOPHER GLASS
HOUSE OF IMAGINATION
Production Designer: MARTIN TINO SCHAEDLER
NINTENDO
Commercial: Wii
Production Designer: FLOYD ALBEE
PUMA
Commercial: LIFT
Production Designer: JAMES CHINLUND