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Academy Award for Best Art Direction
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.
1920s
This award was originally for Interior Decoration
1930s
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford , Thomas Little , Paul S. Fox - The Foxes of Harrow
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 1952 Color Paul Sheriff , Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
- Richard Day , Antoni Clavé , 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
- 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
- Cedric Gibbons , Preston Ames , Edwin B. Willis , Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox - Desirée
- 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
- 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 Eighty 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
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
- 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
- Piero Gherardi - 81/2
- Hal Pereira , Tambi Larsen , Samuel M. Comer , Robert R. 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
- 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?
- 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 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
1990s
2000s
See also: Academy Awards
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