The 10th Annual ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 11. Reception begins at 6:30 p.m.; dinner followed by awards presentation 7:30 p.m. The Art Directors nominations were announced on January 17, 2006.
The Art Directors Guild (ADG) will announce winners in seven categories of Production Design for motion pictures, television and commercials competing in ADG's Tenth Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2005. Black-tie ceremonies will take place from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The event will be hosted by six-time Emmy® nominee Jeffrey Tambor. Presiding over the occasion will be ADG Council President Tom Walsh assisted by Awards Co-Chairs Robert Strohmaier and Tom Wilkins. Scheduled celebrity presenters include Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon ("NYPD Blue"), Production Designer Robert Boyle, Executive Roy Disney, Director Paul Haggis ("Crash"), Jill Hennessy ("Crossing Jordan"), Laura Herring ("Law & Order"), Producer Kathleen Kennedy, Ian McShane ("Deadwood"), Production Designer J. Michael Riva, Kelly Rutherford ("E-Ring"), Doug Savant ("Desperate Housewives"), Jane Seymour ("Wedding Crashers") and Jean Smart ("24").
ADG's Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award will go to three-time Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, who has his imprimatur on four major films this year: "War of the Worlds," (director); "Munich" (producer/director); "The Legend of Zorro" (executive producer) and "Memoirs of a Geisha" (producer), whose production designer John Myhre is an ADG nominee. Spielberg was also executive producer of the TNT mini-series "Into the West," whose production designer, Marek Dobrowolski, is also an ADG nominee this year.
Other highlights of the evening will be the first live public performance of the Academy Award®-nominated song, "In The Deep" from "Crash" by its co-composer / performer Kathleen "Bird" York (actress as well on "The West Wing" and "The O.C."), as well as the presentation of the ADG's Hall of Fame inductees, ADG's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Career Achievement Award for Scenic Arts. Production designer John B. Mansbridge will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Ronald V. Strang will be presented with the Career Achievement Award for Scenic Arts. Production designers John Box, Hans Dreier, Cedric Gibbons, Jan Scott and Alexander Trauner will be inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame (an honor bestowed only posthumously).
