LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/03/06 -- 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 Robert Boyle, Paul Haggis ("Crash"), Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant ("Desperate Housewives"), Ian McShane ("Deadwood"), J. Michael Riva, Kelly Rutherford ("E-Ring"), **Jane Seymour ("Wedding Crashers") 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® 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 I Believe You"          PD:     THOMAS A. WALSH
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 Flapping Noise"   PD:     JOHN SHAFFNER
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 AWARDSâ                 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

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