Art Directors Guild Awards 2008

The 13th Art Directors Guild Awards, which were given on February 14, 2009, honored the best production designers of films and televisions in 2008.

Winners and Nominees

Film

Contemporary Film:

• Mark Digby – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Jess Gonchor – Burn After Reading
  • James J. Murakami – Gran Torino
  • Dennis Gassner – Quantum of Solace
  • Timothy Grimes – The Wrestler

Fantasy Film:

• Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
  • Guy Hendrix Dyas – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • J. Michael Riva – Iron Man
  • James D. Bissell – The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Ralph Eggleston – WALL-E

Period Film:

• Donald Graham Burt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • James J. Murakami – Changeling
  • David Gropman – Doubt
  • Michael Corenblith – Frost/Nixon
  • Bill Groom – Milk

Television

Episode of One Hour Single-Camera Series:

• Dan Bishop – Mad Men for "The Jet Set"
  • Michael Wylie – Pushing Daisies for "Bzzzzzzzzz!"
  • Suzuki Ingerslev – True Blood for "Burning House of Love"
  • Tom Conroy – The Tudors for "Episode 210"
  • Mark Worthington – Ugly Betty for "When Betty Met Yeti"

Miniseries or Television Film:

• Gemma Jackson – John Adams
  • Jerry Wanek – The Andromeda Strain
  • Robb Wilson King – The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
  • Yuda Acco – Lone Rider
  • Patti Podesta – Recount