Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them keeps picking up the nominations. This time they’ve been nominated for the prestigious Art Directors Guild Award
Fantastic news for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, as the Art Directors Guild announced their nominations for the 2016 movie season. The ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards are being held this year on March 11th, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, and Fantastic Beasts will be represented with a nomination.
The Excellence in Production Design Awards in a Feature Film are far more broken down than they were during the Harry Potter years. Nowadays, they have separate categories for Period Films and for Fantasy Films–and Fantastic Beasts could have easily been in either.
When the Potter movies first began being released, “Period and Fantasy Films” was a single category, abut after Lord of the Rings ran the table on it from 2002-2004, the Guild decided to divide the two, since Period Films were pretty cranky that Fantasy ate the category they had previously dominated. Even so, it wasn’t until 2011, and the final Potter film of the series was released before they managed to take the win, for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
With this year’s nomination, J.K. Rowling and company once again have a chance to make a run at at these awards which were so long denied them during the Potter years. As the Production designer, Stuart Craig is the official nominee for the film. also in the category: Marvel’s Doctor Strange, the aliens-and-Amy-Adams flick Arrival, and the incredibly sexist horror film Passengers (though the nominee there is Guy Hendrix Dyas, who beat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 back in 2010 for Inception). Also in the category, a little unknown indie film called Rogue One that I’m sure no one could possibly have gone to see.
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Congrats to all the nominees, and may the best movie set in the Wizarding World win.