Academy Award for Best Art Direction
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The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. 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.
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1920s
This award was originally for Interior Decoration
- 1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest
- 1929 Cedric Gibbons - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1930s
- 1930 Herman Rosse - King of Jazz
- 1931 Max Ree - Cimarron
- 1932 Gordon Wiles - Transatlantic
- 1933 William S. Darling - Cavalcade
- 1934 Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope - The Merry Widow
- 1935 Richard Day - The Dark Angel
- 1936 Richard Day - Dodsworth
- 1937 Stephen Goosson - Lost Horizon
- Cedric Gibbons, William Horning - Conquest
- Carroll Clark - A Damsel in Distress
- Richard Day - Dead End
- 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
- Hans Dreier, John Goodman - If I Were King
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1946 Black-and-White William Darling, Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes - Anna and the King of Siam
- 1946 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis - The Yearling
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
- 1947 Color Alfred Junge - Black Narcissus
- 1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon - Hamlet
- 1948 Color Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson - The Red Shoes
- 1949 Black-and-White Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri - The Heiress
- 1949 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Little Women
1950s
- 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Boulevard
- 1950 Color Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson and Delilah
- 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day, George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - An American in Paris
- 1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - The Bad and the Beautiful
- 1952 Color Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
- 1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Julius Caesar
- 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
- 1954 Color John Meehan, Emile Kuri - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- 1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - The Rose Tattoo
- 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
- 1956 Color Lyle R. Wheeler, John Decuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The King and I
For 1957 films this award became a single award.
- 1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara
- 1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason - Gigi
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
- 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
- 1960 Color Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron - Spartacus
- 1961 Black-and-White Harry Horner, Gene Callahan - The Hustler
- 1961 Color Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin - West Side Story
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 1966 Color Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Fantastic Voyage
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!
- 1969 John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton - Hello, Dolly!
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
- 1972 Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel - Cabaret
- 1973 Henry Bumstead, James Payne - The Sting
- 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
- 1976 George Jenkins, George Gaines - All the President's Men
- 1977 John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian - Star Wars
- 1978 Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines - Heaven Can Wait
- 1979 Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary Brink - All That Jazz
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 Fernández 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) - The Two Towers
- Dennis Gassner (art director), Nancy Haigh (set decorator) - Road to Perdition
- 2003 Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 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) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Jeannine Oppewall (Art Direction); Leslie Pope (Set Decoration) Seabiscuit
- 2004 Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) The Aviator
- Gemma Jackson (Art Direction); Trisha Edwards (Set Decoration) Finding Neverland
- Rick Heinrichs (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik (Set Decoration) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Anthony Pratt (Art Direction); Celia Bobak (Set Decoration) The Phantom of the Opera
- Aline Bonetto (Art Direction) A Very Long Engagement
See also: Academy Awardsit:Oscar per la migliore scenografia