Winners and nominees
Film
Period Film:
- Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
- Judy Becker – American Hustle
- Jess Gonchor – Inside Llewyn Davis
- Michael Corenblith – Saving Mr. Banks
- Adam Stockhausen – 12 Years a Slave
American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey. Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character. Principal photography on the film began on March 8, 2013, in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City.
Jess Gonchor is an American art director who was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards for the film True Grit. He was nominated for Best Art Direction, he shared his nomination with Nancy Haigh.
Inside Llewyn Davis is a 2013 French-American musical comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough role, a folk singer struggling to achieve musical success while keeping his life in order. The supporting cast stars Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, and Justin Timberlake.
Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer. She won two Academy Awards for Moulin Rouge! in 2002 and another two for The Great Gatsby in 2014. Having won four Oscars, she is the most awarded Australian in Oscar history, having overtaken 1950s costume designer Orry-Kelly.
The Great Gatsby is a 2013 romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the eponymous Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki. Jay-Z served as executive producer. Production began in 2011 and took place in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.
Judy Becker is a production designer. Becker, along with set decorator Heather Loeffler, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film American Hustle.
Fantasy Film:
- Andy Nicholson – Gravity
- Philip Ivey – Elysium
- Dan Hennah – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Darren Gilford – Oblivion
- Scott Chambliss – Star Trek Into Darkness
Dan Hennah is a production designer from New Zealand who worked on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. He won an Oscar for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and produced by WingNut Films in collaboration with New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and is the second installment in the three-part film series based on the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The film was preceded by An Unexpected Journey (2012) and followed by The Battle of the Five Armies (2014); together they operate as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action thriller film co-produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski, and produced by Peter Chernin with screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in supporting roles. Oblivion, based on Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name, is making homage to the 1970s science fiction films.
Andy Nicholson is an English production designer who has worked on various films, including Gravity, Divergent, Assassin's Creed, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Nicholson has also worked as an art director for numerous films, including several by director Tim Burton.
Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and their attempt to return to Earth.
Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction action film produced, written, and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, and Sharlto Copley. The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth, and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. The film itself offers deliberate social commentary which explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, transhumanism, health care, worker exploitation, the justice system, and social class issues. The basic plot is similar to the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Cloud Minders" and to the classic Metropolis. The film was released on August 9, 2013 by TriStar Pictures, in both conventional and IMAX Digital theaters. It was a modest success and received generally positive reviews from critics, even though many considered it a disappointment after Blomkamp's first film District 9. Elysium was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 17, 2013.
Contemporary Film:
- K. K. Barrett – Her
- David Gropman – August: Osage County
- Santo Loquasto – Blue Jasmine
- Paul Kirby – Captain Phillips
- Bob Shaw – The Wolf of Wall Street
Keith "K. K." Barrett is an American production designer known for his work on feature films by Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola, among others.
Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze. It marks Jonze's solo screenwriting debut. The film follows Theodore Twombly, a man who develops a relationship with Samantha, an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde.
August: Osage County is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written by Tracy Letts and based on his Pulitzer Prize–winning play of the same name, and directed by John Wells. It is produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Jean Doumanian, and Steve Traxler.
Television
One-Hour Single Camera Television Series:
- Gemma Jackson – Game of Thrones (for "Valar Dohaeris")
- Bill Groom – Boardwalk Empire (for "The Old Ship of Zion")
- Mark Freeborn – Breaking Bad (for "Felina")
- Donal Woods – Downton Abbey (for "Episode 7")
- Dan Bishop – Mad Men (for "The Better Half")
Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series
- Jim Gloster – Veep (for "Helsinki")
- Denise Pizzini – Arrested Development (for "The B. Team")
- Ray Yamagata – Californication (for "The Unforgiven")
- Richard Berg – Modern Family (for "The Wow Factor")
- Ian Phillips – Parks and Recreation (for "London")
Multi-Camera Unscripted Series:
- Tyler Robinson – Portlandia (for "Missionaries")
- John Shaffner – The Big Bang Theory (for "The Bakersfield Expedition")
- Steve Olson – How I Met Your Mother (for "The Lighthouse")
- Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, and N. Joseph DeTullio – Saturday Night Live (for "Host: Justin Timberlake")
- Anton Goss and James Pearse Connelly – The Voice (for "The Live Playoffs, Part 1")
Miniseries or Television Movie:
- Howard Cummings – Behind the Candelabra
- Mark Worthington – American Horror Story: Coven (for "Bitchcraft")'
- Derek R. Hill – Bonnie & Clyde
- Gregory Melton – Mob City
- Patrizia von Brandenstein – Phil Spector
