ADG & ACE winners spread the wealth

by Nathaniel R

The Art Directors Guild and the American Cinema Editors Guild announced their winners last night. The results indicate support for multiple films vying for Best Picture with Encanto (not a Best Picture nominee) the only film to win at both ceremonies last night. King Richard made news winning the Drama Editing prize over presumedly stronger Best Picture hopefuls like Dune and Power of the Dog but who knows what Oscar might choose. Statistically, believe it or not, this win is not necessarily a big plus in King Richard's column (other than to be recognized which if of course wonderful on its own!). AMPAS has a differnet voting body and they often choose differently in the editing category.  

Winners and commentary after the jump for both guilds after the jump...

ADG Art Directors Guild Awards

PERIOD FEATURE FILM 

“The French Dispatch” (Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen)
“Licorice Pizza” (Production Designer: Florencia Martin)
★ “Nightmare Alley” (Production Designer: Tamara Deverell)
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” (Production Designer: Stefan Dechant)
“West Side Story” (Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen)

This is very good news for Nightmare Alley as this win often correlates with a future Oscar win. Previous recent examples are Mank (2020), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), The Shape of Water (2017), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). But on the other hand... the award for Fantasy does triumph at the Oscars sometimes. Therefore if you're predicting you must also consider...

FANTASY FEATURE FILM

“Cruella” (Production Designer: Fiona Crombie)
★ “Dune” (Production Designer: Patrice Vermette)
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
“The Green Knight” (Production Designer: Jade Healy)
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (Production Designer: Sue Chan)

Dune is a very possible Oscar winner in the parallel Academy category because, just like Nightmare Alley, it can rack up votes whether a specific Academy member thinks about "Best" or "Most"... since we know there are both kinds of voters. Recent winners of this category to go on to an Oscar win that were also immersive genre films include  Black Panther (2018) and Mad Max Fury Road (2015).

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM

“Candyman” (Production Designer: Cara Brower)
“Don’t Look Up” (Production Designer: Clayton Hartley)
“In the Heights” (Production Designer: Nelson Coates)
“The Lost Daughter” (Production Designer: Inbal Weinberg)
★ “No Time to Die” (Production Designer: Mark Tildesley)

The winner of this category rarely wins the Oscar but that's less about differences between the ADG and the Academy than it is about the disrespect shown to contemporary-set films in the craft categories on the regular... with all awards bodies that don't have specific "Contemporary" prizes. The only time in the past 20 years that the ADG winner here also claimed the Oscar was La La Land (2016).

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

★ “Encanto” (Production Designers: Ian Gooding, Lorelay Bové)
“Luca” (Production Designer: Daniela Strijleva)
“The Mitchells vs. the Machines” (Production Designer: Lindsey Olivares)
“Raya and the Last Dragon” (Production Designers: Paul Felix, Mingjue Helen Chen, Cory Loftis)
“Sing 2” (Art Director: Olivier Adam)

TELEVISION

 ONE-HOUR PERIOD OR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

“Foundation: The Emperor’s Peace” (Production Designer: Rory Cheyne)
“The Great: Dickhead,” “Seven Days,” “Wedding” (Production Designer: Francesca di Mottola)
★ “Loki: Glorious Purpose” (Production Designer: Kasra Farahani)
“Lost In Space: Three Little Birds” (Production Designer: Alec Hammond)
“The Witcher: A Grain of Truth” (Production Designer: Andrew Laws)

ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES

“The Handmaid’s Tale: Chicago” (Production Designer: Elisabeth Williams)
“The Morning Show: My Least Favorite Year,” “It’s Like the Flu,” “A Private Person” (Production Designer: Nelson Coates)
★ “Squid Game: Gganbu” (Production Designer: Chae Kyoung-sun_
“Succession: “The Disruption,” “Too Much Birthday” (Production Designer: Stephen Carter)
“Yellowstone: No Kindness for the Coward” (Production Designer: Cary White_

 TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

“Halston” (Production Designer: Mark Ricker)
“Mare of Easttown” (Production Designer: Keith P. Cunningham)
“The Underground Railroad” (Production Designer: Mark Friedberg)
★ “WandaVision” (Production Designer: Mark Worthington)
“The White Lotus” (Production Designer: Laura Fox)

HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Hacks: Primm” (Production Designer: Jon Carlos)
“Only Murders in the Building: True Crime” (Production Designer: Curt Beech)
“Schmigadoon!: Schmigadoon!” (Production Designer: Bo Welch)
“Ted Lasso: “Carol of the Bells,” “Man City,” “Beard After Hours” (Production Designer: Paul Cripps)
★ “What We Do in the Shadows: “The Prisoner,” “The Cloak of Duplication,” “The Siren” (Production Designer: Kate Bunch)

MULTI-CAMERA SERIES 
“Bob ❤️ Abishola: Bowango” (Production Designer: Francoise Cherry-Cohen)
“Call Your Mother: Pilot” (Production Designer: Glenda Rovello)
“The Conners – Season 3: “A Stomach Ache, a Heartbreak and a Grave Mistake,” “An Old Dog, New Tricks and a Ticket to Ride”
(Production Designer: John Shaffner)
“Dave: “Ad Man,” “Enlightened Dave,” “Dave” (Production Designer: Almitra Corey)
★ “Family Reunion: Remember When M’Dear Changed History?” (Production Designer: Aiyana Trotter)
“Punky Brewster: Put a Ring on It” (Production Designer: Kristan Andrews)

COMMERCIALS 
Anhauser-Busch Super Bowl LV: “Let’s Grab a Beer” (Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt)
Apple: Introducing iPhone 13 Pro (Production Designer: Dylan Kahn)
Apple: “Saving Simon” Shot on iPhone 13 Pro (Production Designer: Chelsea Oliver)
★ Apple Music: “Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
Gucci: “Aria” (Production Designer: Jeremy Reed)
Neom: “Made to Change” (Production Designer: François Audouy)

MUSIC VIDEOS
Coldplay “Higher Power” (Production Designer: Patrick Tatopoulos)
Coldplay X BTS: “My Universe” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
Ed Sheeran: “Shivers” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
P!nk: “All I Know So Far” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
★ Taylor Swift: “All Too Well” (Production Designer: Ethan Tobman)

VARIETY, REALITY OR COMPETITION SERIES
“A Black Lady Sketch Show: “If I’m Paying These Chili’s Prices, You Cannot Taste My Steak!” (Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michele Yu)
★ “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses: “Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff” (Production Designer: John Janavs)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Condragulations,” “Bossy Rossy Rubot,” “Gettin’ Lucky” (Production Designer: James McGowan)
“Saturday Night Live: “Host: Dan Levy + Music: Phoebe Bridgers,” “Host: Maya Rudolph + Music: Jack Harlow,” “Host: Kim Kardashian West + Music: Halsey” (Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio)
“Waffles + Mochi:  Tomato” (Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michele Yu)

VARIETY SPECIAL
American Express – Unstaged (with SZA) (Production Designer: Carlos Laszlo)
Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster (Production Designer: James Kronzer)
★ Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “Facts of Life – Kids Can Be Cruel (320) & Diff’rent Strokes – Willis’ Privacy (115) (Production Designer: Stephan Olson)
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3 (Supervising Art Director: Steve Morden)
Yearly Departed (Production Designer: Frida Oliva)

ACE "Eddie" Awards

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC)

• “Belfast” Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, ACE, BFE
• “Dune” Joe Walker, ACE
• ★ “King Richard” Pamela Martin, ACE
• “No Time to Die” Tom Cross, ACE, Elliot Graham, ACE
• “The Power of the Dog” Peter Sciberras

Last year's winner in this category, Trial of Chicago 7 did not go on to win the Oscar losing to the film it beat here, Sound of Metal. The same thing occurred the previous year when Parasite won the Eddie the year before but lost Editing to Ford V Ferrari at the Oscars. The last time a film won this category AND the Oscar was Bohemian Rhapsody (shudder) for 2018 but it's fairly comon for the winner to be different at the Oscars.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY)

• “Cruella” Tatiana S. Riegel ACE
• “Don’t Look Up” Hank Corwin, ACE
• “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun” Andrew Weisblum, ACE
• “Licorice Pizza” Andy Jurgensen
• ★ “tick, tick…BOOM!” Myron Kerstein, ACE, Andrew Weisblum, ACE 

Tick Tick Boom! is the only Editing achievement nominated at Oscar this year which is NOT nominated for Best Picture. Can it pull off a surprise win? Unfortunately for tick tick BOOM! the eventual Oscar winner does not usually come from this category. Still wouldn't it be wild if it won without a Best Picture nod. It has happened before but only once since the expansion of the Best Picture field. That one time was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

 BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• ★ “Encanto” Jeremy Milton, ACE
• “Luca” Catherine Apple, ACE, Jason Hudak
• “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” Greg Levitan
• “Raya and the Last Dragon” Fabienne Rawley, ACE, Shannon Stein
• “Sing 2” Gregory Perler, ACE 

Encanto is heading strong into Oscar night.

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

• “Flee” Janus Billeskov Jansen
• “The Rescue” Bob Eisenhardt, ACE
• ★ “Summer of Soul……Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised” Joshua L. Pearson
• “Val” Ting Poo, Leo Scott
• “The Velvet Underground” Affonso Gonçalves, ACE, Adam Kurnitz

...As is Summer of Soul in documentary.

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (NON-THEATRICAL)

• “100 Foot Wave Sea Monsters” Abhay Sofsky, Adrienne Gits, Connor Culhane, Brandon Valentin
• “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything “Starman” Sam Blair
• “Allen V. Farrow” (Episode 1) Mikaela Shwer, Parker Laramie & Sara Newens
• ★ “The Beatles: Get Back” (Episode 3) Jabez Olssen
• “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” Greg Finton, ACE, Lindsay Utz, ACE

BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

• “Kevin Can F**k Himself” (Fixed) Kenneth LaMere ACE
• “Kevin Can F**k Himself” (The Grand Victorian)Ivan Victor, ACE
• ★ “Kevin Can F**k Himself” (Live Free or Die) Daniel Schalk, ACE 

BEST EDITED SINGLE-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

• “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (Igor, Gregor, & Timor) Steven Rasch ACE, Thomas Foligno
• “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (The Mormon Advantage) Chris Chandler, Roger Nygard, ACE
• ★ “Hacks” (1.69 Million) Susan Vaill, ACE
• “Ted Lasso” (No Weddings and a Funeral) A.J. Catoline, ACE
• “Ted Lasso” (Rainbow) Melissa McCoy, ACE

BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES 

• “Euphoria” (Fuck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob) Julio C. Pérez IV, ACE, Nikola Boyanov
• “Lupin” (Chapter 1) Jean-Daniel Fernandez-Qundez
• “Squid Game” (Gganbu) Nam Na-young
• ★ “Succession” (All the Bells Say) Ken Eluto, ACE
• “Succession” (Chiantishire) Jane Rizzo

BEST EDITED MOTION PICTURE (NON-THEATRICAL)

• “Kate” Sandra Montiel, ACE, Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir, ACE
• “Lupe” Shiran Carolyn Amir
• ★ “Oslo” Jay Rabinowitz, ACE

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES

• “Dopesick” (First Bottle) Douglas Crise, ACE
• “Mare of Easttown” (Fathers) Amy E. Duddleston, ACE, Naomi Sunrise Filoramo
• ★ “Mare of Easttown” (Illusions) Amy E. Duddleston, ACE
• “The White Lotus” (Departures) John M. Valerio, ACE
• “The White Lotus” (Mysterious Monkeys) Heather Persons 

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES

• ★ “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” (Man on Fire) Dan Ablett, Kevin Austin, Otto Burnham, Shane McCormack, Graham Taylor
• “MasterChef: Legends” (Semi Final Pt 3 Chef Showdown) Roger Bartlett, Matt Cluett, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dylan Hart, Ezra Hudson, James Messina, Rod Schultheiss, Austin Scott, Molly Shock ACE
• “Queer Eye” (Angel Gets Her Wings) Nova Taylor, Sean Gill 

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL

• “A Black Lady Sketch Show” (Sister, May I Call You Oshun) Daysha Broadway, ACE, Stephanie Filo, ACE, Jessica Hernández, ACE
• ★ “Bo Burnham: Inside” Bo Burnham
• “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (Union Busting) Ryan Barger, Anthony Milae 

BEST EDITED ANIMATION (NON-THEATRICAL)

• ★ “Bobs Burgers” (Vampire Disco Death Dance) Jeremy Reuben
• “Rick and Morty” (Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion) Lee Harting, ACE
• “What If?” (What If… Ultron Won?) Graham Fisher, Joel Fisher

Comments

[thevoid99]

Congrats to these editors and production designers. Show them some love. Fuck the Oscars for not doing that.

[cal roth]

How could Ford v Ferrari beat Parasite in Editing? I was reading the post and I had to stop to think about it.

[Score and Cinematography]

And the two best pic nominees I haven’t seen are King Richard and Nightmare Alley. Lol. As the Oscars like to throw as many bones to best pic nominees as they can (not all of them receive one) I wonder if Nightmare Alley is beloved enough to get one for production design. I don’t feel like it is but who knows.