The Artwork Administrators Guild has its latest Corridor of Famer.
Manufacturing designer Thomas E. Sanders, a two-time Oscar nominee for Saving Non-public Ryan and Bram Stoker’s Dracula who additionally labored on Braveheart and lots of different movies, will probably be inducted posthumously into the ADG Corridor of Fame on the thirtieth annual Excellence in Manufacturing Design Awards subsequent month.
The 2026 ADG Awards is about for February 28 on the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
Thomas labored with plenty of top-name administrators throughout his quarter-century profession as a manufacturing designer. with Steven Spielberg’s Saving Non-public Ryan, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and Mel Gibson’s Braveheart — incomes BAFTA noms for all three — Thomas from the Nineteen Nineties by means of the 2010s was celebrated for his visionary work on movies together with John Woo’s Mission: Inconceivable II, M. Night time Shyamalan’s After Earth, Catherine Hardwicke’s Crimson Rising Hood, Richard Donner’s Maverick and Rob Reiner’s Rumor Has It… and Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace’s Secretariat and We Have been Troopers, the latter starring Gibson.
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One in all Thomas’ proudest achievements was his work with Guillermo del Toro on the interval horror-thriller Crimson Peak, whose gothic, richly textured and haunting manufacturing design outlined the movie’s tone and environment. His remaining challenge was Justin Lin’s Star Trek Past in 2015.
Thomas died of most cancers in 2017 at 63. He will probably be inducted into the ADG Corridor by his longtime collaborator Kevin de la Noy.
The Artwork Administrators Guild additionally mentioned Tuesday that comic, actor and author Ron Funches will host its thirtieth ADG Awards. Jon M. Chu, who directed the Depraved movie, will obtain the 2026 Cinematic Imagery Award through the ceremony. See the nominees right here.
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The guild, IATSE Native 800, was established in 1937 and represents greater than 3,000 manufacturing designers and artwork administrators, scenic, title and graphic artists, set designers and mannequin makers, illustrators, storyboard and matte artists.
