While the Art Directors Guild were giving out their ADG Awards this past weekend, across the pond, the British Film Designers Guild were giving out their own 12th Annual British Film Designers Guild Production Design Awards at the Londoner Hotel in London on Saturday, Feb. 18.
There wasn’t a lot of crossover between the two groups. In fact, there was none, as the BFDG chose James Chinlund‘s team on The Batman and the team on Ron Howard‘s Thirteen Lives for its Fantasy and Contemporary International Feature Films respectively. Joe Wright‘s Cyrano and Sam Mendes‘ Empire of Light also won awards despite getting very little awards traction in the States. (Cyrano received an awards-consideration release in 2021, so it wouldn’t be eligible this year.)
As far as television goes, the Netflix series, Wednesday, and the BBC’s Killing Eve.
One thing that separates the BFDG awards from ADG’s is that they also name a film’s Set Decorator as part of the team.
Here are this year’s winners for Best Production Design:
International Feature Film – Fantasy
The Batman
Production Designer James Chinlund
Supervising Art Director Grant Armstrong
Set Decorator Lee Sandales
International Feature Film – Contemporary
Thirteen Lives
Production Designer Molly Hughes
Supervising Art Director Brandt Gordon
Set Decorator Emma Rudkin SDSA
Independent Feature Film – Contemporary
All the Old Knives
Production Designer Marcus Rowland
Supervising Art Director Grant Bailey
Set Decorator Jude Farr SDSA
International Feature Film – Period
Empire of Light
Production Designer Mark Tildesley
Supervising Art Director Adam O’Neill
Set Decorators Kamlan Man & Véronique Melery SDSA
Independent Feature Film – Period
Cyrano
Production Designer Sarah Greenwood
Supervising Art Directors
Elaine Kusmishko (UK) & Gianpaolo Rifino (IT)
Set Decorator Katie Spencer SDSA
International TV Drama Including
Mini Series, TV Movie or Limited Series
Wednesday
Production Designer Mark Scruton
Supervising Art Director Adrian Curelea
Set Decorators Rob Hepburn SDSA & David Morison
Independent TV Drama Including
Mini Series, TV Movie or Limited Series
Killing Eve
Production Designer Lucienne Suren
Supervising Art Director Philip Barber
Set Decorator Mike Britton
Light Entertainment TV Programme Includes
Comedy & General Entertainment
Man vs. Bee
Production Designer Carly Reddin
Supervising Art Director Nigel Evans
Set Decorator Janeeta Panesar
Short Film
Fireworks
Production Designer Jamie Lapsley
Supervising Art Director Felix Coles
COMMERCIAL
B&Q “FLIP”
Production Designer Dan Betteridge
Art Director Kate McConnell
The Peter Lamont Spotlighting New Talent Award
Junior Draughtsperson Katie Mazurek
Lifetime Achievement Award
Set Decorator Judy Ducker
