Academy Award for Best Art Direction

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The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion picturess. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

Table of contents

1 1920s
2 1930s
3 1940s
4 1950s
5 1960s
6 1970s
7 1980s
8 1990s
9 2000s

1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration

1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest
- Harry Oliver - Seventh Heaven
- Rochus Gliese - Sunrise
1929 Cedric Gibbons - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Mitchell Leisen - Dynamite
- Cedric Gibbons - Hollywood Review
- William Cameron Menzies - The Iron Mask
- Hans Dreier - The Patriot
- Harry Oliver - Sweet Angel

1930s

1930 Herman Rosse - King of Jazz
- William Cameron Menzies - Bulldog Drummond
- Hans Dreier - The Love Parade
- Jack Okey - Sally
- Hans Dreier - The Vagabond King
1931 Max Ree - Cimarron
- Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras - Just Imagine
- Hans Dreier - Morocco
- Anton Grot - Svengali
- Richard Day - Whoopee
1932 Gordon Wiles - Transatlantic
- Lazare Meerson - A Nous la libertÃÂ©
- Richard Day - Arrowsmith
1933 William S. Darling - Cavalcade
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - A Farewell to Arms
- Cedric Gibbons - When Ladies Meet
1934 Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope - The Merry Widow
- Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark - The Gay Divorcee
- Richard Day - Affairs of Cellini
1935 Richard Day - The Dark Angel
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Carroll Clark, Van Nest Polglase - Top Hat
1936 Richard Day - Dodsworth
- Anton Grot - Anthony Adverse
- Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis - The Great Ziegfeld
- William S. Darling - Lloyd's of London
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson - The Magnificent Brute
- Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis - Romeo and Juliet
- Perry Ferguson - Winterset
1937 Stephen Goosson - Lost Horizon
- Cedric Gibbons, William Horning - Conquest
- Carroll Clark - A Damsel in Distress
- Ward Ihnen - Every Day's a Holiday
- Anton Grot - The Life of Emile Zola
- John Victor MacKay - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- Lyle Wheeler - The Prisoner of Zenda
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Souls at Sea
- Alexander Toluboff - Vogues of 1938
- William S. Darling, David Hall - Wee Willie Winkie
- Jack Otterson - You're a Sweetheart
1938 Carl J. Weyl - The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Lyle Wheeler - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Bernard Herzbrun, Boris Leven - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Alexander Toluboff - Algiers
- Van Nest Polglase - Carefree
- Richard Day - Goldwyn Follies
- Stephen Goosson, Lionel Banks - Holiday
- Jack Otterson - Mad About Music
- Cedric Gibbons - Marie Antoinette
- Charles D. Hall - Merrily We Live
1939 Lyle Wheeler - Gone With the Wind
- Hans Dreier, Robert Odell - Beau Geste
- Charles D. Hall - Captain Fury
- Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina - First Love
- Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman - Love Affair
- John Victor Mackay - Man of Conquest
- Lionel Banks - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Anton Grot - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- William Darling, George Dudley - The Rains Came
- Alexander Toluboff - Stagecoach
- Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning - The Wizard of Oz
- James Basevi - Wuthering Heights

With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color movies.

1940s

1940 Black-and-white Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse - Pride and Prejudice
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher - Arise, My Love
- Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson - Arizona
- John Otterson - The Boys from Syracuse
- John Victor Mackay - Dark Command
- Alexander Golitzen - Foreign Correspondent
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright - Lillian Russell
- Van Nest Polglase, Mark-Lee Kirk - My Favorite Wife
- John DuCasse Schulze - My Son, My Son
- Lewis J. Rachmil - Our Town
- Lyle Wheeler - Rebecca
- Anton Grot - The Sea Hawk
- James Basevi - The Westerner
1940 Color Vincent Korda - The Thief of Bagdad
- Cedric Gibbons, John S. Detlie - Bitter Sweet
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright - Down Argentine Way
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - North West Mounted Police
1941 Black-and-White Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little - How Green Was My Valley
- Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase, Al Fields, Darrell Silvera - Citizen Kane
- Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman - Flame of New Orleans
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer - Hold Back the Dawn
- Lionel Banks, George Montgomery - Ladies in Retirement
- Stephen Goosson, Howard Bristol - The Little Foxes
- John Hughes, Fred MacLean - Sergeant York
- John DuCasse Schultze, Edward G. Boyle - Son of Monte Cristo
- Alexander Golitzen, Richard Irvine - Sundown
- Vincent Korda, Julia Heron - That Hamilton Woman
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis - When Ladies Meet
1941 Color Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis - Blossoms in the Dust
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little - Blood and Sand
- Raoul Pene du Bois, Stephen A. Seymour - Louisiana Purchase
1942 Black-and-White Richard Day, Joseph Wright, Thomas Little - This Above All
- Max Parker, Mark-Lee Kirk, Casey Roberts - George Washington Slept Here
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Fields, Darrell Silvera - The Magnificent Ambersons
- Perry Ferguson, Howard Bristol - The Pride of the Yankees
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore - Random Harvest
- Boris Leven - The Shanghai Gesture
- Ralph Berger, Emile Kuri - Silver Queen
- John B. Goodman, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson - The Spoilers
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer - Take a Letter, Darling
- Lionel Banks, Rudolph Sternad, Fay Babcock - The Talk of the Town
1942 Color Richard Day, Joseph Wright, Thomas Little - My Gal Sal
- Alexander Golitzen, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - Arabian Nights
- Ted Smith, Casey Roberts - Captains of the Clouds
- Vincent Korda, Julia Heron - Jungle Book
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, George Sawley - Reap the Wild Wind
1943 Black-and-White James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little - The Song of Bernadette
- Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Bertram Granger - Five Graves to Cairo
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera, Harley Miller - Flight for Freedom
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Madame Curie
- Carl Weyl, George J. Hopkins - Mission to Moscow
- Perry Ferguson, Howard Bristol - The North Star
1943 Color Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - Phantom of the Opera
- Hans Dreier, Haldane Douglas, Bertram Granger - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little - The Gang's All Here
- John Hughes, John Koenig, George J. Hopkins - This Is the Army
- Cedric Gibbons, Daniel Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Jacques Mersereau - Thousands Cheer
1944 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, Edwin B. Willis - Gaslight
- Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher, Joseph Kish - Address Unknown
- John J. Hughes, Fred MacLean - The Adventures of Mark Twain
- Perry Ferguson, Julia Heron - Casanova Brown
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little - Laura
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer - No Time for Love
- Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin - Since You Went Away
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter - Step Lively
1944 Color Wiard Ihnen, Thomas Little - Wilson
- John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - The Climax
- Lionel Banks, Cary Odell, Fay Babcodk - Cover Girl
- Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy - The Desert Song
- Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Kismet
- Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene du Bois, Ray Moyer - Lady in the Dark
- Ernst Fegte, Howard Bristol - The Princess and the Pirate
1945 Black-and-White Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields - Blood on the Sun
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter - Experiment Perilous
- James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes - The Keys of the Kingdom
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Love Letters
- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar, Hugh Hunt - The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 Color Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Samuel M. Comer - Frenchman's Creek
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little - Leave Her to Heaven
- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths - National Velvet
- Ted Smith, Jack McConaghy - San Antonio
- Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle - A Thousand and One Nights
1946 Black-and-White William Darling, Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes - Anna and the King of Siam
- Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Kitty
- Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Razor's Edge
1946 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis - The Yearling
- John Bryan - Caesar and Cleopatra
- Paul Sheriff, Carmen Dillon - Henry V

Beginning with 1947 movies the name of the award was changed to Art Direction - Set Decoration.

1947 Black-and-White John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton - Great Expectations
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Foxes of Harrow
1947 Color Alfred Junge - Black Narcissus
- Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins - Life with Father
1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon - Hamlet
- Robert Haas, William Wallace - Johnny Belinda
1948 Color Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson - The Red Shoes
- Richard Day, Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish - Joan of Arc
1949 Black-and-White Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri - The Heiress
- Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - Come to the Stable
- Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Madame Bovary
1949 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Little Women
- Edward Carrere, Lyle Reifsnider - Adventures of Don Juan
- Jim Morahan, William Kellner, Michael Relph - Saraband for Dead Lovers

1950s

1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Blvd
- Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - All About Eve
- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - The Red Danube
1950 Color Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson and Delilah
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Annie Get Your Gun
- Ernst Fegte, George Sawley - Destination Moon
1951 Black-and-White Richard Day, George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode - Fourteen Hours
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - House on Telegraph Hill
- Jean d'Eaubonne - La Ronde
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore - Too Young to Kiss
1951 Color Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - An American in Paris
- Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - David and Bathsheba
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - On the Riviera
- William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt - Quo Vadis
- Hein Heckroth - Tales of Hoffmann
1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - The Bad and the Beautiful
- Emile Kuri - Carrie
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott - My Cousin Rachel
- Matsuyama H. Matsumoto - Rashomon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter - Viva Zapata
1952 Color Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
- Richard Day, Antoni ClavÃÂ©, Howard Bristol - Hans Christian Andersen
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - The Merry Widow
- Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy, Jr, Charles Thompson - The Quiet Man
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Julius Caesar
- Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz - Martin Luther
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Paul S. Fox - The President's Lady
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler - Roman Holiday
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Stuart Reiss - Titanic
1953 Color Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The Robe
- Alfred Junge, Hans Peters. John Jarvis - Knights of the Round Table
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - Lili
- Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore - The Story of Three Loves
- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Young Bess
1954 Black-and-White Richard Day - On the Waterfront
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - The Country Girl
- Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri - Executive Suite
- Max Ophuls - Le Plaisir
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sabrina
1954 Color John Meehan, Emile Kuri - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - DesirÃÂ©e
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Red Garters
- Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff, George James Hopkins - A Star Is Born
1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - The Rose Tattoo
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace - Blackboard Jungle
- Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt - I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera - The Man With the Golden Arm
- Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley - Marty
1955 Color William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley - Picnic
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Daddy Long Legs
- Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol - Guys and Dolls
- Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - To Catch a Thief
1956 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason - Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Takashi Matsuyama - The Magnificent Seven
- Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy - The Proud and the Profane
- Ross Bellah, William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage - The Solid Gold Cadillac
- Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Teenage Rebel
1956 Color Lyle R. Wheeler, John Decuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The King and I
- James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam, Ross J. Dowd - Around the World in 80 Days
- Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst - Giant
- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason - Lust for Life
- Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - The Ten Commandments

For 1957 films this award became a single award.

1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara
- Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Funny Face
- William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Les Girls
- Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage - Pal Joey
- William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Raintree County
1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason - Gigi
- Malcolm Bert, George James Hopkins - Auntie Mame
- Cary Odell, Louis Diage - Bell, Book and Candle
- Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - A Certain Smile
- Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Samuel M. Comer, Frank McKelvy - Vertigo

With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two

1959 Black-and-White Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams, - Career
- Carl Anderson, William Kiernan - The Last Angry Man
- Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle - Some Like It Hot
- Oliver Messel, William Kellner, Scot Slimon - Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 Color William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt - Ben-Hur
- John De Cuir, Julia Heron - The Big Fisherman
- Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal. Walter M. Scott, Joseph Kish - Journey to the Center of the Earth
- William A. Horning, Robert Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy - North by Northwest
- Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt - Pillow Talk

1960s

1960 Black-and-White Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle - The Apartment
- Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid, Ross Dowd - The Facts of Life
- Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo - Psycho
- Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch - Sons and Lovers
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - Visit to a Small Planet
1960 Color Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron - Spartacus
- George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel - Cimarron
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Arrigo Breschi - It Started in Naples
- Ted Haworth, William Kiernan - Pepe
- Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins - Sunrise at Campobello
1961 Black-and-White Harry Horner, Gene Callahan - The Hustler
- Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - The Absent-Minded Professor
- Fernando Carrere, Edward G. Boyle - The Children's Hour
- Rudolf Sternad, George Milo - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Piero Gherardi - La Dolce Vita
1961 Color Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin - West Side Story
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Veniero Colasanti, John Moore - El Cid
- Alexander Golitzen, Joseph Wright, Howard Bristol - Flower Drum Song
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - Summer and Smoke
1962 Black-and-White Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Joseph Wright, George James Hopkins - Days of Wine and Roses
- Ted Haworth, Leon Barasa, Vincent Korda, Gabriel Bechir - The Longest Day
- George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno, Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle - Period of Adjustment
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy - The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962 Color John Box, John Stoll, Dario Simoni - Lawrence of Arabia
- Paul Groesse, George James Hopkins - The Music Man
- George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Mutiny on the Bounty
- Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo - That Touch of Mink
- George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno, Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1963 Black-and-White Gene Callahan - America America
- Piero Gherardi - 8 1/2
- Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Robert Benton - Hud
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - Love With the Proper Stranger
- George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Twilight of Honor
1963 Color John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer - Cleopatra
- Lyle Wheeler, Gene Callahan - The Cardinal
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, James Payne - Come Blow Your Horn
- George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr, Jack Mills - How the West Was Won
- Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert, Josie MacAvin - Tom Jones
1964 Black-and-White Vassilis Fotopoulos - Zorba the Greek
- George W. Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott, Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton - The Americanization of Emily
- William Glasgow, Raphael Bretton - Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- Stephen Grimes - The Night of the Iguana
- Cary Odell, Edward G. Boyle - Seven Days in May
1964 Color Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins - My Fair Lady
- John Bryan, Maurice Carter, Patrick McLoyghlin, Robert Cartwright - Becket
- Carroll Clark, William H, Tuntke, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - Mary Poppins
- George W. Davis, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Jack Martin Smith, Ted Haworth, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - What a Way to Go
1965 Black-and-White Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish - Ship of Fools
- Robert Emmet Smith, Frank Tuttle - King Rat
- George W. Davis, Urie McCleary, Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson - A Patch of Blue
- Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin, Robert Benton, Joseph Kish - The Slender Thread
- Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Edward Marshall, Josie MacAvin - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1965 Color John Box, Terry Marsh, Dario Simoni - Doctor Zhivago
- John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Dario Simoni - The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Richard Day, William Creber, David Hall, Ray Moyer, Fred MacLean, Norman Rockett - The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Robert Clatworthy, George James Hopkins - Inside Daisy Clover
- Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt - The Sound of Music
1966 Black-and-White Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- Robert Luthardt, Edward G. Boyle - The Fortune Cookie
- Luigi Scaccianoce - The Gospel According to St. Matthew
- Willy Holt, Marc Frederix, Pierre Guffroy - Is Paris Burning
- George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Mister Buddwing
1966 Color Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Fantastic Voyage
- Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, John McCarthy, John Austin - Gambit
- Piero Gherardi - Juliet of the Spirits
- Hal Pereira, Arthur Lonergan, Robert Benton, James Payne - The Oscar
- Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, John Sturtevant, William Kiernan - The Sand Pebbles

For 1967 the two awards in this category were recombined into a single award.

1967 John Truscott, Edward Carrere, John W. Brown - Camelot
- Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Doctor Dolittle
- Robert Clatworthy, Frank Tuttle - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani, Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi - The Taming of the Shrew
- Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Howard Bristol - Thoroughly Modern Millie
1968 John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston - Oliver
- George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno - The Shoes of the Fisherman
- Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol - Star
- Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer -
- Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, Georgi Koshelev, Vladimir Uvarov - War and Peace
1969 John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton - Hello, Dolly
- Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch, Patrick McLoughlin - Anne of the Thousand Days
- Robert Boyle, George B. Chan, Edward Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe - Gaily, Gaily
- Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Jack D. Moore - Sweet Charity
- Harry Horner, Frank McKelvy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They

1970s

1970 Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thevenet - Patton
- Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Jack D. Moore, Mickey S. Michaels - Airport
- Tambi Larsen, Darrell Silvera - The Molly MaGuires
- Terry Marsh, Bob Cartwright, Pamela Cornell - Scrooge
- Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day, Taizoh Kawashima, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett, Carl Biddiscombe - Tora! Tora! Tora
1971 John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon - Nicholas and Alexandra
- Boris Leven, William Tuntke, Ruby Levitt - The Andromeda Strain
- John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer, Peter Lamont - Fiddler on the Roof
- Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt - Mary, Queen of Scots
1972 Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel - Cabaret
- Carl Anderson, Reg Allen - Lady Sings the Blues
- William Creber, Raphael Bretton - The Poseidon Adventure
- John Box, Gil Parrondo, Robert W. Laing - Travels with My Aunt
- Don Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark, William Hutchinson, Peter James - Young Winston
1973 Henry Bumstead, James Payne - The Sting
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, Gianni Quaranta, Carmelo Patrono - Brother Sun, Sister Moon
- Bill Malley, Jerry Wunderlich - The Exorcist
- Philip Jefferies, Robert de Vestel - Tom Sawyer
- Stephen Grimes, William Kiernan - The Way We Were
1974 Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson - The Godfather Part II
- Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, Ruby Levitt - Chinatown
- Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Frank McKelvy - Earthquake
- Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Walter Tyler, Al Roelofs, Hal Gausman - The Island at the Top of the World
- William Creber, Ward Preston. Raphael Bretton - The Towering Inferno
1975 Ken Adam, Roy Walker, Vernon Dixon - Barry Lyndon
- Edward Carfagno, Frank McKelvy - The Hindenburg
- Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis, Peter James - The Man Who Would Be King
- Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, George Gaines - Shampoo
- Albert Brenner, Marvin March - The Sunshine Boys
1976 George Jenkins, George Gaines - All the President's Men
- Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds - The Incredible Sarah
- Gene Callahan, Jack Collis, Jerry Wunderlich - The Last Tycoon
- Dale Hennesy, Robert de Vestel - Logan's Run
- Robert F. Boyle, Arthur Jeph Parker - The Shootist
1977 John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian - Star Wars
- George C. Webb, Mickey S. Michaels - Airport '77
- Joe Alves, Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife - The Spy Who Loved Me
- Albert Brenner, Marvin March - The Turning Point
1978 Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines - Heaven Can Wait
- Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
- Albert Brenner, Marvin March - California Suite
- Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert - Interiors
- Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller - The Wiz
1979 Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary Brink - All That Jazz
- Michael Seymour, Les Dilley, Roger Christian, Ian Whittaker - Alien
- Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson - Apocalypse Now
- George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker - The China Syndrome
- Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris, John Vallone, Linda Descenna - Star Trek - The Motion Picture

1980s

1980 Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens - Tess
1981 Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Michael Ford (Set Decoration) - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Stuart Craig, Bob Laing; Michael Seirton (Set Decoration) - Gandhi
1983 Anna Asp - Fanny & Alexander
1984 Patrizia von Brandenstein; Karel Cerny (Set Decoration) - Amadeus
1985 Stephen Grimes; Josie Macavin (Set Decoration) - Out of Africa
1986 Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow; Brian Savegar, Elio Altamura (Set Decoration) - A Room with a View
1987 Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri (Set Decoration) - The Last Emperor
1988 Stuart Craig; Gerard James (Set Decoration) - Dangerous Liaisons
1989 Anton Furst; Peter Young (Set Decoration) - Batman

1990s

1990 Richard Sylbert; Rick Simpson (Set Decoration) - Dick Tracy
1991 Dennis Gassner; Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) - Bugsy
1992 Luciana Arrighi; Ian Whittaker (Set Decoration) - Howards End
1993 Allan Starski; Ewa Braun (Set Decoration) - Schindler's List
1994 Ken Adam; Carolyn Scott (Set Decoration) - The Madness of King George
1995 Eugenio Zanetti - Restoration
1996 Stuart Craig; Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration) - The English Patient
1997 Peter Lamont; Michael Ford (Set Decoration) - Titanic
1998 Martin Childs; Jill Quertier (Set Decoration) - Shakespeare in Love
1999 Rick Heinrichs; Peter Young (Set Decoration) - Sleepy Hollow

2000s

2000 Tim Yip, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 Catherine Martin (Art Direction) and Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration) Moulin Rouge
2002 John Myhre (art director), Gordon Sim (set decorator) - Chicago
- Felipe FernÃÂ¡ndez del Paso (art director), Hannia Robledo (set decorator) - Frida
- Dante Ferretti (art director), Francesca LoSchiavo (set decorator) - Gangs of New York
- Grant Major (art director), Dan Hennah (set decorator), Alan Lee (set decorator) -
- Dennis Gassner (art director), Nancy Haigh (set decorator) - Road to Perdition
2003 Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration)
- Ben Van Os (Art Direction); Cecile Heideman (Set Decoration) Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Lilly Kilvert (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration) The Last Samurai
- William Sandell (Art Direction); Robert Gould (Set Decoration)
- Jeannine Oppewall (Art Direction); Leslie Pope (Set Decoration) Seabiscuit

See also: Academy Awards