The Art Directors Guild (ADG) has announced that four legendary women will be inducted into the organization’s hall of fame at the Guild’s 20th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on Jan. 31 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Designer Carmen Dillon along with three other women designers will be honored by the Art Directors Guild. (Photo courtesy of Art Directors Guild)

The honorees are production designer Carmen Dillon, production and costume designer Patricia Norris, art director and set designer Dorothea Holt Redmond and illustrator Dianne Wager.

“These women made great strides in their craft achieving prominence despite designing in a field dominated by men,” ADG council chairwoman Marcia Hinds said. “Acknowledgement of their efforts leads to a more balanced and open guild. They will be most welcomed into our prestigious hall of fame.”

The inductions are only made posthumously. Dillon (1908-2000), pictured, was the first female art director in the British film industry, and made history in 1949 when she became the first woman to win an Oscar for set decoration.

Norris (1931-2015) is an Oscar nominee and Emmy winner who was one of only a handful of American designers who successfully combined the dual practices of production and costume design for film and television.

In 2011, she made history when she became the only artist to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Art Directors Guild and the Costume Designers Guild.

Redmond (1910-2009) was an illustrator and production designer who broke ground in 1938 when she became the first woman in the male-dominated field of production design. Best known for helping visually conceptualize Alfred Hitchcock’s films, she worked on over 30 films spanning her 20-year career, including “Gone with the Wind” (1939) and “The Ten Commandments” (1956).

Wagner (1937-2011) worked on more than 40 award-winning films including “The Hunt for Red October” (1990), “Crimson Tide” (1995), “The Green Mile” (1999) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001). She received ADG Award nominations for her set design work on “Changeling” (2008) and her art direction work on “Pleasantville” (1999).

Additional nominations for the awards will be announced on Jan. 5. Final balloting will run Jan. 7-28, 2016. Winners will be announced at the dinner ceremony in 11 competitive categories for theatrical films, television productions, commercials and music videos.

For information, call Debbie Patton at (818)762-9995, or email debbie@artdirectors.org.