AFT Awards: Best Art Direction

This is the eighth category of the 6th 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 95 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
The Avengers, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Black Tulip, Damsels in Distress, The Dark Knight Rises, Django Unchained, Footnote, Hitchcock, The Hobbit, Hyde Park on Hudson, The Impossible , Les Miserables, The Master, La Rafle, Zero Dark Thirty

The winner:
Anna Karenina (Sarah Greenwood) was visually stunning and gorgeous, creatively and artfully weaving its set changes into the execution of its plot.

Other nominees:
Moonrise Kingdom (Adam Stockhausen)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dawn Masi)
Life of Pi (David Gropman)
Argo (Sharon Seymour)