Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor As recently as 2020, only 27.5% of production designers in the Art Directors Guild were women.
What a difference five years makes. That number has increased, according to the guild’s president Dina Lipton. “I feel seeing more women nominated each year is exciting,” Lipton says. “We also have lots of young people coming out of school, specifically studying production design, and most of them are women.” Furthermore, for the first time, the guild has an all-female executive board.
This year, two women are nominated at the Oscars for production design: Suzie Davies for “Conclave” and Judy Becker for “The Brutalist.” With the Art Directors Guild set to hand out their top prizes on Feb.
15, Lipton takes a look at the artistry and vision behind the five Art Directors Guild nominees who overlap with Oscar. “The Brutalist” – Judy Becker “Judy’s got this big job ahead of her with very little money, and she’s doing a film about an architect.
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