Art Directors Guild
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| The Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists | |
| Founded | 1937 |
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| Members | ~1,500 |
| Country | United States |
| Head union | Thomas Walsh, President |
| Affiliation | IATSE |
| Office location | 11969 Ventura Blvd. 2nd Floor Studio City, California, 91604, USA |
| Website | www.artdirectors.org |
The The Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists is a local union of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) representing over 1,500 Art Directors, Production Designers, Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists in the Western United States. Local 800 is also known as the ADG.
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[edit] Origins
Local 800 is comprised the Art Directors Guild and the Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists.
[edit] Art Directors Guild
While the craft of production design and art direction dates back 100 years to the very beginning of filmmaking, it wasn’t until 1924 that 63 of the top men and women pursuing that craft formed the Cinemagundi Club (named after New York’s club for artists, the Salmagundi Club), a casual organization that met mainly for socializing at a Hollywood restaurant. Through the years, the Cinemagundi Club developed into a forum for Production Designers and Art Directors to exchange views and to discuss problems. In 1937, the Club transformed itself into the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors. Television was added to its name 30 years later and in January of 2000, it became the Art Directors Guild.[1]
The 1930s were bleak times, however, for Art Directors and other industry craft artists who were not being given proper credit for the important creative contributions they made to the art of filmmaking. That attitude dramatically changed in 1939 with Gone With the Wind, when producer David O. Selznick agreed to give the new credit of “Production Designer” to William Cameron Menzies for his brilliant work on the classic film. Menzies (the dean of U.S. film art direction at the time) produced scene-by-scene storyboards and illustrations for Gone With the Wind that revolutionized the film industry. They demonstrated the vital role that production design plays in the overall look of a theatrical motion picture, establishing practices still in use today.[2]
After World War II, many “below the line” industry labor organizations, including the Art Directors Guild, signed on with the IATSE for overall union representation. The Guild became more active, grew in membership, and expanded opportunities as television developed.
[edit] Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists
The creation of its own local (formerly known as Local 816) in March of 1949 marked the first time the Hollywood Scenic Artists and Title Artists had its own local representing its unique needs. Previously, the members were part of Local 644 of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) working in film and theater. The overwhelming majority of Local 644’s membership, however, had been made up of set painters and paperhangers and included set designers as well. It was not until the dissolution of the CSU after a long series of bitterly contested strikes that the scenic artists were able to organize exclusively. Those artists had been pioneers in their field, responsible for devising and developing the methods used to create representational scenery unsurpassed anywhere in the world.
The size and strength of the local grew with the inclusion of television contracts in the early 1950s. Television, at that time, was in effect an extension of live theater and required a lot of painted two-dimensional scenery instead of the three-dimensional sets used in film. As the nature of television scenery changed, the responsibilities of the television scenic artist broadened to include those of the set painter. Local 816 was the only local in the entertainment industry that worked in all three major areas of the business: film, television and theater.
[edit] 2003 Merger
In January, 2003, the 850 members of ADG merged with the 650 member Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists to form the Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists. Today, with approximately 1,500 members, the ADG is more active than ever. Its ongoing activities include a Film Society, an Annual ADG Awards banquet and event, the publication of an annual Membership Directory, an extensive technology-training program and a professional quarterly news magazine called Perspective.
[edit] ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards
The ADG Awards are presented annually by the The Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists to recognize excellence in production design and art direction in the film and television industries.
[edit] Film
[edit] Feature Film (1996-1999)
- 1996: The English Patient
- by art director Aurelio Crugnola
- by production designer Stuart Craig
- 1997: Titanic
- by art director Robert W. Laing, Neil Lamont, Charles Dwight Lee and Bill Rea
- by production designer Martin Laing
- 1998: What Dreams May Come
- by art director Christian Wintter
- by production designer Eugenio Zanetti
- 1999: Sleepy Hollow
- by art director Ken Court, John Dexter, Andy Nicholson, Kevin Phipps, John Wright Stevens and Leslie Tomkins
- by production designer Rick Heinrichs
[edit] Contemporary Film (2000-)
- 2000: Chocolat
- by art director Lucy Richardson
- by production designer David Gropman
- by art director Volker Schäfer
- by production designer Aline Bonetto
- 2002: Catch Me If You Can
- by art directors Sarah Knowles, Michele Laliberte and Peter Rogness
- by production designer Jeannine Claudia Oppewall
- 2003: Mystic River
- by art director Jack G. Taylor Jr.
- by production designer Henry Bumstead
- 2004: The Terminal
- by art director Brad Ricker
- by production designer Alex McDowell
- 2005: Walk the Line
- by art director John R. Jensen and Rob Simons
- by production designer David J. Bomba
- 2006: Casino Royale
- by art directors David Baxa, Susanna Codognato, Peter Francis, Fred Hole, Michael Lamont, Steven Lawrence, Dominic Masters, Alan Tomkins
- by production designer Peter Lamont
- 2007: No Country for Old Men
- by production designer Jess Gonchor
[edit] Period or Fantasy Film (2000-2005)
- 2000: Gladiator
- by art director Adam O'Neill, Keith Pain, Clifford Robson and Peter Russell
- by production designer Arthur Max
- 2001: Moulin Rouge!
- by art director Anne Beauchamp
- by production designer Catherine Martin
- by art directors Joe Bleakley, Philip Ivey, Rob Outterside and Mark Robins
- by production designer Grant Major
- by art director Joe Bleakley, Simon Bright, Dan Hennah and Philip Ivey
- by production designer Grant Major
- by art director Tony Fanning, William Hawkins and Martin Whist
- by production designer Rick Heinrichs
- 2005: Memoirs of a Geisha
- by art director Patrick M. Sullivan Jr.
- by production designer John Myhre
[edit] Period Film (2006-)
- by art directors Chengguang Dong, Hongwu Sun, Xinhua Wei and Minxuan Zong
- by production designer Tingxiao Huo
- 2007: There Will Be Blood
by production designer Jack Fisk
[edit] Fantasy Film (2006-)
- by production designer Eugenio Caballero
- 2007: The Golden Compass
by production designer Dennis Gassner
[edit] Television
[edit] Single Camera TV series
- 2005: Rome (for episode #1)
- by art directors Dominic Hyman, Carlo Serafin and Domenico Sica
- by production designer Joseph Bennett
- Deadwood (for episode "Requiem for a Gleet")
- Desperate Housewives (for episode "They Ask Me Why I Believe You")
- Las Vegas (for episode "The Real McCoy")
- Lost (for episode "Orientation")
- 2006: Ugly Betty (for episode "The Box and the Bunny")
- by art directors Charles E. McCarry, Jim Wallis and Kathleen Widomski
- by production designer Mark Worthington
- 24 (for episode "7 a.m. - 8 a.m.")
- Deadwood (for episode "True Colors")
- Heroes (for episode "Six Months Ago")
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (for episode "Pilot")
- '2007: ::Mad Men (for episode "Shoot")
- by production designer Dan Bishop
- with art directors TBA
- with set design team including Camille Bratkowski
- Heroes (for episode "Five Years Gone")
- Lost (for episode "Through the Looking Glass")
- Pushing Daisies (for episode "Pie-Lette")
- Ugly Betty (for episode "East Side Story")
[edit] Multi-Camera TV series
[edit] Miniseries or TV Film (1997-)
- 1997: George Wallace
- by art director Charles M. Lagola
- by production designer Michael Z. Hanan
- Asteroid
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Deep Family Secrets
- House of Frankenstein
- by art director Seth Reed
- by production designer Richard Toyon
- by art director A. Leslie Thomas
- by production designer James H. Spencer
- The '60s
- The Hunley
- Lansky
- P.T. Barnum
- 2000: The '70s
- by art director Ron Mason
- by production designer John T. Walker
- American Tragedy
- The Beach Boys: An American Family
- Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
- For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
- 2001: The Last Brickmaker in America
- by art director Jim Gloster
- by production designer William J. Creber
- Blonde
- Dinner with Friends
- On Golden Pond
- 2002: Live from Baghdad
- by art directors Matthew C. Jacobs and Karen Steward
- by production designer Richard Hoover
- 2003: Angels in America
- by art directors John Kasarda and Stefano Maria Ortolani
- by production designer Stuart Wurtzel
- by art director Bernardo Trujillo
- by production designer Herbert Pinter
- 2005: Empire Falls
- by art director John Kasarda
- by production designer Stuart Wurtzel
- 2006: Desperation
- by art director Jason Weil
- by production designer Phil Dagort
[edit] Awards Show, Documentary, Music Special or Variety
[edit] Commercial
[edit] TV series or Miniseries (1996-1999)
- Television
- by art director Randall McIlvain
- by production designer Herman F. Zimmerman
- Frasier
- NYPD Blue
- Mrs. Santa Claus
- The Summer of Ben Tyler
- TV series
- 1997: Brooklyn South
- by art director Lee Mayman
- by production designer Paul Eads
- 1998: The X Files
- by art director Sandy Getzler and Lauren E. Polizzi
- by production designer Corey Kaplan
- Buddy Faro
- Seven Days
- Sports Night
- Star Trek: Voyager
- 1999: The West Wing (for episode "Pilot")
- by art director Tony Fanning
- by production designer Jon Hutman
- The Magnificent Seven, The (for episode "Chinatown")
- Roswell (for episode "Monster")
- Star Trek: Voyager (for episode "11:59")
- The X Files (for episode "Amor Fati")
[edit] External links
- Art Directors Guild official site
- ADG Art Direction Wiki film design knowledge base primarily maintained by members of the Art Directors Guild
- Art Directors Guild page on IMDB
- IATSE official website
[edit] See Also
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