Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was among the big winners at the British Film Designers Guild 2026 Production Design Awards.
Frankenstein won Best Production Design – Major Motion Picture, Period, edging out Hamnet, which was also up for the award. However, Hamnet’s Production Designer Fiona Crombie and Set Decorator Alice Felton won Best Production Design – Major Motion Picture, Fantasy for their work on Mickey 17.
The Thing with Feathers won Best Production Design – Feature Film, Contemporary, while The Choral took home the award for Best Production Design – Feature Film, Period.
The award for Best Production Design – Music Video went to The Shoemaker by Tom Hickox. The Planet Positive Award was presented to Zsofia Szemeredy of Leverage Point Entertainment for Down Cemetery Road.
The Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to long-standing BFDG member and Treasurer Malcolm Stone, whose credits include The Muppets, Band of Brothers, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and The Dark Crystal.
“Every year, I am so impressed by the talent represented at the BFDG Awards, and this year is no exception,” BFDG Chairperson Jonathan Paul Green said in a statement.
“Our members represent some of the very best talent not only in the UK, but across the global film and television industry. This evening is a very special occasion where we come together as a community to celebrate and reward that talent.”