SDSA Awards: Set Decorators Laud ‘Poor Things’ As Best Picture; ‘Barbie’, ‘Saltburn’ & ‘Asteroid City’ Also Win – Full List
Poor Things took a pair of prizes including Best Picture at the Set Decorators Society of America’s 2023 SDSA Awards, which were handed out today. Yorgos Lanthimos’ film starring Emma Stone also won for Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Period Feature Film.
The film’s set decoration was by Zsuzsa Mihalek, with production design by James Price & Shona Heath.
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The year’s top-grossing film and fellow Best Picture Oscar nominee Barbie, from director Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, scooped the Fantasy or Science Fiction Film award for set decorator Katie Spencer and production designer Sarah Greenwood. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn won for Contemporary Feature Film, with the hardware going to set decorator Charlotte Dirickx and production designer Suzie Davies.
The teams behind Poor Things and Saltburn also picked up trophies at the 28th annual Art Directors Guild Awards over the weekend. The Poor Things and Barbie folks also will face off for Best Production Design at the Academy Awards next month. They’ll go up against the production designers and set decorators behind Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon — all of which were SDSA Award nominees.
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City picked up the statuette for Comedy or Musical Feature.
The Set Decorators Society of America, which is an international group, annually celebrates outstanding work on a wide range of productions in film and television. Here are the winners of its 2023 SDSA Awards:
Best Picture
Poor Things
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Set Decoration by Zsuzsa Mihalek with Production Design by James Price & Shona Heath
Best Achievement In Décor/Design Of A Contemporary Feature Film
Saltburn
Set Decoration by Charlotte Dirickx
Production Design by Suzie Davies
Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Period Feature Film
Poor Things
Set Decoration by Zsuzsa Mihalek
Production Design by James Price & Shona Heath
Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Fantasy or Science Fiction Film
Barbie
Set Decoration by Katie Spencer
Production Design by Sarah Greenwood
Best Achievement in Décor / Design of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film
Asteroid City
Set Decoration by Kris Moran
Production Design by Adam Stockhausen
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