Property Masters Guild Names 2026 MacGuffin Awards Nominees
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- Property Masters Guild revealed nominees for its 2026 MacGuffin Awards on Thursday, the organization's third annual ceremony honoring prop masters across film, television, commercials, and more.
- Winners will be feted on September 12 at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood, with PMG President Jeffrey Johnson saying the "caliber of work submitted…reaffirms just how much Property Masters shape the stories we love."
- Last year's marquee film winners included Dune: Part Two, Heretic, and A Complete Unknown, while The Studio, Severance, and Shōgun led the television categories.
- Feature film nominees span three categories: contemporary (Happy Gilmore 2, Weapons, One Battle After Another, The Accountant 2, Now You See Me: Now You Don't), period (Sinners, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, The Phoenician Scheme, Deliver Me from Nowhere), and fantasy/sci-fi (Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: For Good, Bugonia, How to Train Your Dragon, Tron: Ares).
- Television nominees cover one-hour contemporary, period, and fantasy/sci-fi series, plus half-hour single-camera, half-hour multi-camera, miniseries, and variety/reality/game show categories — with shows like Fallout S2, Severance S3, Hacks S5, Abbott Elementary S5, and The Muppet Show among the contenders.
- Short format nominees include Miley Cyrus's "Something Beautiful" music video, Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild," and Disney's Disneyland 70, highlighting the guild's reach beyond scripted entertainment.
- Cross-coverage consensus: Variety's headline highlights the same nominee list, spotlighting Weapons, Marty Supreme, and Hacks — confirming the broader industry focus on prestige film and prestige TV contenders rather than the genre/horror standouts also in the running.
Why it matters: For an industry that rarely spotlights below-the-line craft work, the MacGuffin Awards give prop masters — a credit most audiences never read — their own dedicated awards track across 13 categories. With nominees spanning studio tentpoles (Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: For Good), prestige TV (Fallout, Severance), and music videos, the field shows how broadly prop work now stretches across entertainment formats.
