Art Directors Guild Awards 1996

The 1st Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards, honoring the best production designers in film, television and media of 1996, were held in 1997.

1st Art Directors Guild Awards
Date	1997

Winners and nominees

Film

Excellence in Production Design Award – Feature Film
The English Patient – Stuart Craig, Aurelio Crugnola The Birdcage – Bo Welch, Tom Duffield, John Dexter The Crucible – Lilly Kilvert, John Warnke Hamlet – Tim Harvey, Desmond Crowe Mars Attacks! – Wynn Thomas, James Hegedus, John Dexter, Jann K. Engel, Richard Fernandez

Television

Excellence in Production Design Award – Television
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Herman F. Zimmerman, Randall McIlvain Frasier – Roy Christopher, Wendell Johnson Mrs. Santa Claus – Hub Braden, Mary Dodson NYPD Blue – Richard C. Hankins, Alan E. Muraoka, Lauren Crasco The Summer of Ben Tyler – Jan Scott, Tim Eckel

Special Achievement Award

• Gene Allen

Distinguished Career Award

• Allen Daviau

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Robert F. Boyle