Art Directors noms announced

The Art Directors Guild has tapped the production designers from 14 films in three categories for its top feature award.The guild, which operates as Local 800 of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, made the announcement Tuesday night. Winners will be announced Feb. 4 at its 16th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.Period film noms went to Laurence Bennett for "The Artist"; Dante Ferretti for "Hugo"; Sebastian Krawinkel for "Anonymous" and Maria Djurkovic for "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."Fantasy film nods went to Stuart Craig for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"; Rick Heinrichs for "Captain America: The First Avenger"; John Myhre for "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides"; Scott Chambliss for "Cowboys & Aliens"; and "The Adventures of Tintin," on which the guild has not yet made a determination of production designer.Contemporary film nominations went to Donald Graham Burt for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"; Jane Anne Stewart for "The Descendants"; KK Barrett for "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; Beth Mickle for "Drive"; and Jefferson Sage for "Bridesmaids.""The King's Speech," "Inception" and "Black Swan" won the top feature awards last year from the Art Directors Guild for the period, fantasy and contemporary categories respectively. "Alice in Wonderland" won the Oscar for art direction. The guild also announced nominations for five TV categories. For One-Hour Single Camera Television Series, nods went to Bill Groom for episode 21 of "Boardwalk Empire"; Gemma Jackson for the "A Golden Crown" segment of "Game of Thrones"; Mark Worthington for the "Murder House" episode of "American Horror Story"; Scott P. Murphy for "The Scarlett Bunny" segment of "The Playboy Club"; and Bob Shaw for the "Pan Am" pilot. Movie or mini-series noms went to Mark Friedberg for "Mildred Pierce"; Patti Podesta for "Cinema Verite"; Bob Shaw for "Too Big to Fail"; Eve Stewart for "The Hour"; and Robb Wilson King for "Bling Ring."Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series noms went to Richard Berg for the "Express Christmas"segment of "Modern Family"; Keith Ian Raywood and Teresa Mastropierro for the "Double-Edged Sword" episode of "30 Rock"; Joseph P. Lucky for the "Game-Played" segment of "Weeds"; Michael Wylie for the "Monkey Business" seg of "Californication"; andJefferson D. Sage for the "New Girl" pilot. Noms for multi-camera, variety or unscripted series: Keith Ian Raywood, Eugene Lee, Leo Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio for "Saturday Night Live" (Episode: host Justin Timberlake); Stephan Olson for the "Ducky Tie" seg of "How I Met Your Mother"; Glenda Rovello for "The Rich People's Problems" episode of "2 Broke Girls"; James Yarnell for the "Top 12 Boys Perform" seg of "American Idol." and for "Round One" of "Dancing With the Stars." Steve Bass scored double noms in the awards and game shows category for the "83rd Annual Academy Awards" and "The 63rd Annual Emmy Awards." Other noms went to Brian Stonestreet for "68th Annual Golden Globes"; Florian Wieder for "2011 MTV Video Music Awards"; and John Ivo Gilles for the "Best Buds" segment of "It's Worth What?" Commercial and music video nods went to Neil Spisak for "Activision: Call of Duty" Jeffrey Beecroft for "Victoria's Secret", Marcos Lutyens for "Audi A8", Jeremy Reed for "Chevy Volt" and Christopher Glass for "Jim Beam." Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com