Art Directors Guild Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere’, ‘Babylon’, ‘Glass Onion’ Take Top Film Prizes

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Babylon and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery took top film honors at the 27th annual Art Directors Guild Awards tonight. Yvette Nicole Brown hosted tonight’s awards for the second consecutive year at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Check out the full list below.

Everything Everywhere All At Once won for Fantasy Feature Film, the Damien Chazelle-directed early Hollywood epic Babylon took the Period Feature prize and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was honored for Contemporary Feature.

Since the guild launched its trophy show in 1996, one of its top prize winners — for Fantasy, Period or Contemporary Feature — or has gone on to win the Art Direction/Production Design Oscar in 18 of the 26 years, including the past nine in a row. Last year’s ADG’s Fantasy Film winner Dune went on to score the Academy Award.

Vying for the Production Design Oscar next month are the teams behind All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Elvis and The Fabelmans.

The show kicked off with the presentation of the William Cameron Menzies Award to Guillermo del Toro, who stressed the importance of community and collaboration in his acceptance speech. It was followed soon after with del Toro’s Pinocchio winning for Animated Feature Film.

Nicole Kidman flew in from Australia to present the guild’s Cinematic Imagery award to Elvis director Baz Luhrmann and his wife and longtime producing partner Catherine Martin. “Guillermo got it so right, it’s about deep, deep collaboration,” said Luhrmann, adding, “We are so honored to be part of this storytelling community.”

TV winners tonight include del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities for television movie or limited Series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power for one-hour fantasy single-camera series, Pachinko for one-hour period single-camera series , How I Met Your Father for multi-camera series, Our Flag Means Death for half-hour single-camera series and Severance for one-hour contemporary single-camera series.

Saturday Night Live won the variety series category. The trophy was dedicated to the late Eugene Lee, who had been a production designer on the series since its launch in 1975. Lee died earlier this month at age 83.

The 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award winners honored tonight were set designer Luis G, Hoyos, production designer Lilly Kilvert, graphic designer Michael Denering and illustrator/storyboard artist Janet Kusnick. Natacha Rambova and Terence Marsh were posthumously inducted into the ADG’s Hall of Fame.

Here are the winners at the 2023 Art Directors Guild Awards:

FANTASY FEATURE FILM

Everything Everywhere All at Once; Production Designer: Jason Kisvarday

CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs

PERIOD FEATURE FILM

Babylon; Production Designer: Florencia Martin

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Production Designers: Guy Davis, Curt Enderle

TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities; Production Designer: Tamara Deverell

ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES