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

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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 - Street Angel

1930s

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• 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 liberté
  • 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
  • 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
  • Samuel Borchovski,Jr. - 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

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• 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

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• 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Boulevard
  • 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 - The 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 - Rashōmon
  • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter - Viva Zapata!
• 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 S. 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 - 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
  • 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 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

• 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

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• 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 - 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
  • 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 - A Space Odyssey (film)
  • 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

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• 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 - A New Hope
  • 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 - The Motion Picture

1980s

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• 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

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• 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; Stephanie 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

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• 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 (film)
  • Dennis Gassner (art director), Nancy Haigh (set decorator) - Road to Perdition

• 2003 Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration) The Return of the King (film)
  • 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) 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

• 2005 John Myhre (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration) Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Jim Bissell (Art Direction); Jan Pascale (Set Decoration) Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Stuart Craig (Art Direction); Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) King Kong
  • Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) Pride and Prejudice

See also

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Academy Awards | Best Art Direction Academy Award winners

Oscar/Bestes Szenenbild | Oscar per la migliore scenografia