Precursor History: Art Directors Guild

Category Details

Category Active: 1996 – Present

Key

Precursor Winner
[O] – Oscar Nominee
[O] – Oscar Winner

Decade Shortcuts

2010s | 2000s | 1990s

2010s

2013

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

American Hustle [O]
The Great Gatsby [O]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Elysium
Gravity [O]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Oblivion
Star Trek: Into Darkness

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

August: Osage County
Blue Jasmine
Captain Phillips
Her [O]
The Wolf of Wall Street

2012

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Anna Karenina [O]
Argo
Django Unchained
Lincoln [O]
Les Misérables [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [O]
Life of Pi [O]
Prometheus

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Flight
The Impossible
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

2011

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Anonymous
The Artist [O]
The Help
Hugo [O]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

The Adventures of Tintin
Captain America: The First Avenger
Cowboys & Aliens
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Bridesmaids
The Descendants
Drive
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2010

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Get Low
The King’s Speech [O]
Robin Hood
Shutter Island
True Grit [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Alice in Wonderland [O]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 [O]
Inception [O]
TRON Legacy

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Black Swan
The Fighter
127 Hours
The Social Network
The Town

2000s

2009

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Inglourious Basterds
Julie & Julia
Public Enemies
A Serious Man
Sherlock Holmes [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Avatar [O]
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Angels & Demons
The Hangover
The Hurt Locker
The Lovely Bones
Up in the Air
WALL-E

2008

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Changeling [O]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [O]
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

The Dark Knight [O]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
The Spiderwick Chronicles

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Burn After Reading
Gran Torino
Quantum of Sollace
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler

2007

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

American Gangster [O]
Atonement [O]
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sweeney Todd [O]
There Will Be Blood [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

The Golden Compass [O]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ratatouille
300

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men

2006

PERIOD ART DIRECTION

Curse of the Golden Flower
Dreamgirls [O]
Flags of Our Fathers
The Good Shepherd [O]
The Prestige [O]

FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Superman Returns
V for Vendetta

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Babel
Casino Royale
The Da Vinci Code
The Departed
The Queen

2005

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Batman Begins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Good Night, and Good Luck [O]
King Kong [O]
Memoirs of a Geisha [O]

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

The Constant Gardener
Crash
Jarhead
Syriana
Walk the Line

2004

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

The Aviator [O]
Finding Neverland [O]
The Incredibles
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events [O]
The Phantom of the Opera [O]

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Million Dollar Baby
The Terminal

2003

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Girl with a Pearl Earring [O]
The Last Samurai [O]
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King{O} [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean
Seabiscuit [O]

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Something’s Gotta Give
Under the Tuscan Sun

2002

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

Chicago [O]
Gangs of New York [O]
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [O]
Minority Report
Road to Perdition [O]

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

The Bourne Identity
Catch Me If You Can
The Hours
One Hour Photo
Panic Room

2001

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

AI: Artificial Intelligence
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [O]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring{O} [O]
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Moulin Rouge [O]

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Amelie [O]
Black Hawk Down
Ocean’s Eleven
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Shipping News

2000

PERIOD / FANTASY ART DIRECTION

The Cell
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [O]
Gladiator [O]
How the Grinch Stole Christmas [O]
The Patriot

CONTEMPORARY ART DIRECTION

Almost Famous
Billy Elliot
Chocolat
The Perfect Storm
Wonder Boys

1990s

1999

ART DIRECTION

American Beauty
Anna and the King [O]
The Matrix
Sleepy Hollow [O]
Titus

1998

ART DIRECTION

Elizabeth [O]
Pleasantville [O]
Saving Private Ryan [O]
Shakespeare in Love [O]
What Dreams May Come [O]

1997

ART DIRECTION

Amistad
Gattaca [O]
L.A.Confidential [O]
Men in Black [O]
Titanic [O]

1996

ART DIRECTION

The Birdcage [O]
The Crucible
The English Patient [O]
Hamlet [O]
Mars Attacks!