AFT Awards: Best Art Direction

This is the eighth category of the 4th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, Daybreakers, District 13: Ultimatum, The Eclipse, The Girl on the Train, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Iron Man 2, Life During Wartime, The Losers, Mao's Last Dancer, Micmacs, Ondine, A Prophet, Red Riding: 1974, Red Riding: 1980, Red Riding: 1983, The Secret in their Eyes, Secretariat, Shutter Island

Runners-up:
SOMEWHERE
THE KING’S SPEECH
DOGTOOTH
KISSES
MAO’S LAST DANCER

The winner:
Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias & Douglas A. Mowat) designed countless realities, each more visually mesmerizing and astounding than the next.

Other nominees:
I Am Love (Francesca Balestra Di Mottola & Monica Sironi)
Micmacs (Aline Bonetto)
A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop (Han Zhong)
The Killer Inside Me (Rob Simons, Mark Tildesley & Jeanette Scott)