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P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 6 15 news THE OSCARS ® vs. THE ADG AWARDS by Michael Baugh, Production Designer and PERSPECTIVE Editor All five Oscar nominees for Production Design have also been selected to compete for the Guild's Excellence in Production Design Awards, allowing the ADG to provide once again some early insight into how the Academy ® might vote. In two-thirds of the years since the first ADG Awards two decades ago, an Excellence in Production Design Award recipient goes on to win the Oscar. Adam Stockhausen (with set decorators Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich) is nominated for Bridge of Spies (a period film in the ADG's contest). He has been nominated twice before by both organizations for 12 Years a Slave, and he won both awards last year for The Grand Budapest Hotel. Eve Stewart (with set decorator Michael Standish) received nominations from both groups for The Danish Girl (also a period film). Ms. Stewart has been nominated three times before for an Oscar for Topsy-Turvy, The King's Speech and Les Misérables; and three times as well for an ADG Award for The King's Speech, The Hour (a television mini-series) and Les Misérables. She won the Guild's award for The King's Speech. This year marks Colin Gibson's first Oscar and ADG nomination (with set decorator Lisa Thompson), for Mad Max: Fury Road. His work will compete in the Guild's fantasy film category. Arthur Max (with set decorator Celia Bobak) is nominated by both the Academy and the ADG (in its contemporary film category) for The Martian. Mr. Max has two prior Oscar nominations for Gladiator and American Gangster, and six prior Guild nominations for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Panic Room, American Gangster, (the Russell Crowe) Robin Hood and Prometheus. He won the latter award for Gladiator. Jack Fisk (with set decorator Hamish Purdy) is nominated this year for The Revenant. In the ADG contest, it is a period film. Mr. Fisk was nominated once before for an Oscar for There Will Be Blood, and he won the ADG Award for that film.