Nominations for the 98th Oscars will be announced in 24 categories on Thursday, January 22nd. There is no shortlist for this category. The Art Directors Guild separates their nominees into three different fields:
Period Feature Film
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
The Phoenician Scheme
Sinners
Fantasy Feature Film
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Mickey 17
Superman
Wicked: For Good
Contemporary Feature Film
Bugonia
F1
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Wake Up Dead Man
The first Wicked won this prize last year. Young Frankenstein, a very different take on the same story as Guillermo Del Toro’s film this year, was a finalist in 1974 for this race. Avatar won this award in 2009 and its sequel Avatar: The Way of Water was nominated in 2022. No Superman, Mission: Impossible, or Knives Out movies have been recognized in the past. Exactly one Marvel movie has been nominated in the past – Black Panther – which also won. The Critics Choice Association, which honors six films, selected The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Sinners, and Wicked: For Good, awarding Frankenstein the prize.
Predicted nominees:
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
