AFT Awards: Best Art Direction

This is the eighth category of the 5th 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 and drawn from a pool of approximately 138 Films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
Beginners
The Artist
Romantics Anonymous
Shame
Submarine
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The winner:
In a Better World (Lene Ejlersen & Mathias Holmgreen) animated its bleak settings with color schemes and mesmerizing visuals.

Other nominees:
Drive (Christopher Tandon & Lisa K. Sessions)
Hugo (Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo)
Melancholia (Simone Grau & Louise Drake)
In the Land of Blood and Honey (Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Arwel Evans & Jon Hutman)