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LOS ANGELES, CA, Feb 01, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- The Art Directors Guild (ADG) will announce winners on February 11 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 announcing winners 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. Serving as presenters will be Paul Haggis ("Crash"), Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant ("Desperate Housewives"), Ian McShane ("Deadwood"), Poppy Montgomery ("Without a Trace"), Jean Smart ("24"), industry executives Roy Disney and Kathleen Kennedy and others to be announced. Presiding over the occasion will be ADG Council President Tom Walsh assisted by Awards Co-Chairs Robert Strohmaier and Tom Wilkins.
As previously announced, ADG's Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award will go this year to three-time Academy Award(R) winner Steven Spielberg (Kathleen Kennedy will present to him), who has his imprimatur on four major films this year. He directed "War of the Worlds," produced and directed "Munich," was a producer of "Memoirs of a Geisha" and was one of the executive producers of "The Legend of Zorro." Spielberg was also executive producer of the TNT mini-series whose production designer, Marek Dobrowolski is among the ADG's nominees this year for Excellence in Production Design in Television for "Into the West" as is John Myhre for "Memoirs of a Geisha," a film produced by Spielberg. A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Production Designer John B. Mansbridge (Roy Disney will present to him) , and a Career Achievement Award for Scenic Arts will go to Ronald V. Strang. In addition, five legendary Production Designers of the past are to be inducted into the ADG's Hall of Fame. They are John Box, Hans Dreier, Cedric Gibbons, Jan Scott, and Alexandre Trauner.
NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2005: Period or Fantasy Film: BATMAN BEGINS PD: Nathan Crowley CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY PD: Alex McDowell GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK PD: Jim Bissell KING KONG PD: Grant Major MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA PD: John Myhre Contemporary Film: THE CONSTANT GARDNER PD: Mark Teldesley CRASH PD: Laurence Bennett JARHEAD PD: Dennis Gassner SYRIANA PD: Dan Weil WALK THE LINE PD: David J. Bomba NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN IN TELEVISION FOR 2005: Single Camera Television Series: DEADWOOD - "Requiem for a Gleet" PD: Maria Caso DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - "They Ask Me Why PD: Thomas A. Walsh I Believe You" LAS VEGAS - "The Real McCoy" PD: Richard Toyon LOST - "Orientation" PD: Jim Spencer ROME - Episode 1 PD: Joseph Bennett Multiple Camera Television Series: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER - Pilot PD: Stephan Olson MAD TV - Episode 1106 PD: John Sabato TWO AND A HALF MEN - "A Low Guttural Tongue PD: John Shaffner Flapping Noise" THE WAR AT HOME - Pilot PD: John Shaffner WILL & GRACE - "The Old Man and the Sea" PD: Glenda Rovello Television Movie or Mini-Series: EMPIRE FALLS PD: Stuart Wurtzel INTO THE WEST PD: Marek Dobrowolski THE MAGIC OF ORDINARY DAYS PD: Clark Hunter WARM SPRINGS PD: Sarah Knowles Awards Show, Variety or Music Special, or Documentary: THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS PD: John Shaffner & Joe Stewart EARTH TO AMERICA PD: Bruce Ryan 77TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS(R) PD: Roy Christopher 39TH ANNUAL COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS PD: Rene Lagler WHEEL OF FORTUNE PD: Renee Hoss-Johnson NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A COMMERCIAL, PROMO OR PSA: AARP - Kitchen Sink PD: Sean Hargreaves AFLAC - The Experiment PD: Michael Gaw BUD LIGHT - Headless Horseman PD: Jeremy Reed DHL - Golfballs PD: Jeffrey Beecroft UPS - You/They PD: Sean Hargreaves PRESS CONTACTS: Murray Weissman & Associates Murray Weissman Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=7FF325C4EC476C27 Marc Kruskol Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=2E4C792762FA6B89 Leonard Morpurgo Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?idòD796CA7B0675E1 Terra Potts Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?idÅ180279339FDA1E images of Tambor, honorees and Hall of Fame inductees obtainable through Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?idõEE873470CF5626
SOURCE: Art Directors Guild
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