Art Directors Guild Awards announced

Special award for Martin Scorsese.

by Jennie Kermode

Award winner The Great Gatsby
Award winner The Great Gatsby

This year's Art Directors Guild Awards were announced last night at a ceremony in Beverly Hills, celebrating the visual talents that bring films to life on the big screen. Catherine Martin won the Period Film for recreating Art Deco visions of opulence in The Great Gatsby, KK Barrett took Contemporary Film for helping us connect with a character we can't see at all in Her, and Andy Nicholson won the Fantasy Film award for Gravity. "Gravity was an incredibly long and tough journey for my crew," said Nicholson. "None of this would’ve been possible without the artistic vision of Alfonso Cuarón."

The Television Movie award went to Behind The Candelabra, which never received a cinematic release in the US despite its success in that format in the UK and Europe.

There was also a special Cinematic Imagery Award for Martin Scorsese, in recognition of his lifetime of wok. "How does one even separate cinema from PD?" he asked assembled guild members. "You can't. We have images in our mind, pictures in our head, but yours are the ones I look to to get those images on the screen. You’ve never let me down. This is for you."

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