In an unusual move, The Art Directors Guild (ADG) included THE INCREDIBLES in its nominees for Excellence In Production Design for a Period or Fantasy Film, making it one of the few animated films to ever be considered against live-action films in the history of the awards.
INCREDIBLES production designer Lou Romano is competing for the honor against fellow production designers Dante Ferretti for THE AVIATOR, Gemma Jackson for FINDING NEVERLAND, Rick Heinrichs for LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS and Anthony Pratt for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
The ADG's Ninth Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards will be handed out during a black-tie ceremony to be held February 12, 2005, at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
ADG's Outstanding Contributions to Cinematic Imagery Award will go this year to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, director of the highly acclaimed House of Flying Daggers and Oscar-nominated films: Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and HERO (2003). Production designer William Creber, a three-time academy-award nominee (FOR THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and THE TOWERING INFERNO) will be presented the Guild's Lifetime Achievement honor.
In addition, ADG will induct the following legendary production designers from the past into its newly formed Hall of Fame: Wilfred Buckland, Richard Day, John DeCuir, Sr., Anton Grot, Boris Leven, William Cameron Menzies and Van Nest Polglase.
For the rest of the nominees and to find out more about the awards, please go to www.artdirectors.org.
