Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. 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.

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
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 - Lloyds 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 awrds for black-and-white and color movies.

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 - 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, Sam 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, Sam Comer - Take a Letter
- 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
- B/W: James Basevi, William Darling; Thomas Little (Interior Decoration) - The Song of Bernadette
- Color: Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman; Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb (Interior Decoration) - Phantom of the Opera
1944
- B/W: Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari; Paul Huldschinsky, Edwin B. Willis (Interior Decoration) - Gaslight
- Color: Wiard Ihnen; Thomas Little (Interior Decoration) - Wilson
1945
- B/W: Wiard Ihnen; A. Roland Fields (Interior Decoration) - Blood on the Sun
- Color: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte; Sam Comer (Interior Decoration) - Frenchman's Creek
1946
- B/W: William Darling, Lyle Wheeler; Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes (Interior Decoration) - Anna and the King of Siam
- Color: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis (Interior Decoration) - The Yearling
1947
- B/W: John Bryan; Wilfred Shingleton (Set Decoration) - Great Expectations
- Color: Alfred Junge - Black Narcissus
1948
- B/W: Roger K. Furse; Carmen Dillon (Set Decoration) - Hamlet
- Color: Hein Heckroth; Arthur Lawson (Set Decoration) - The Red Shoes
1949
- B/W: Harry Horner, John Meehan; Emile Kuri (Set Decoration) - The Heiress
- Color:Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore (Set Decoration) - Little Women
1950
- B/W: Hans Dreier, John Meehan; Sam Comer, Ray Moyer (Set Decoration) - Sunset Blvd.
- Color: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Sam Comer, Ray Moyer (Set Decoration) - Samson And Delilah
1951
- B/W:Richard Day; George James Hopkins (Set Decoration) - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Color: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason (Set Decoration) - An American in Paris
1952
- B/W: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason (Set Decoration) - The Bad and the Beautiful
- Color: Paul Sheriff; Marcel Vertes (Set Decoration) - Moulin Rouge
1953
- B/W: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt (Set Decoration) - Julius Caesar
- Color: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox (Set Decoration) - The Robe
1954
- B/W: Richard Day - On the Waterfront
- Color: John Meehan; Emile Kuri (Set Decoration) - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955
- B/W: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer, Arthur Krams (Set Decoration) - The Rose Tattoo
- Color: William Flannery, Jo Mielziner; Robert Priestley (Set Decoration) - Picnic
1956
- B/W: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason (Set Decoration) - Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Color: Lyle R. Wheeler, John Decuir; Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox (Set Decoration) - The King and I
1957 Ted Haworth; Robert Priestley (Set Decoration) - Sayonara
1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames; Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason (Set Decoration) - Gigi
1959
- B/W: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss (Set Decoration) - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Color: William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno; Hugh Hunt (Set Decoration) - Ben-Hur
1960
- B/W: Alexander Trauner; Edward G. Boyle (Set Decoration) - The Apartment
- Color: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom; Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron (Set Decoration) - Spartacus
1961
- B/W: Harry Horner; Gene Callahan (Set Decoration) - The Hustler
- Color: Boris Leven; Victor A. Gangelin (Set Decoration) - West Side Story
1962
- B/W: Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Oliver Emert (Set Decoration) - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Color: Ohn Box, John Stoll; Dario Simoni (Set Decoration) - Lawrence of Arabia
1963
- B/W: Gene Callahan - America America
- Color: John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga; Walter M.Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer (Set Decoration) - Cleopatra
1964
- B/W: Vassilis Fotopoulos - Zorba the Greek
- Color: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton; George James Hopkins (Set Decoration) - My Fair Lady
1965
- B/W: Robert Clatworthy; Joseph Kish (Set Decoration) - Ship of Fools
- Color: John Box, Terry Marsh; Dario Simoni (Set Decoration) - Doctor Zhivago
1966
- B/W: Richard Sylbert; George James Hopkins (Set Decoration) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Color: Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy; Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss (Set Decoration) - Fantastic Voyage
1967 John Truscott, Edward Carrere; John W. Brown (Set Decoration) - Camelot
1968 John Box, Terence Marsh; Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston (Set Decoration) - Oliver!
1969 John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal; Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton (Set Decoration) - Hello, Dolly!
1970 Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo; Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thevenet (Set Decoration)- Patton
1971 John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo; Vernon Dixon (Set Decoration) - Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach; Herbert Strabel (Set Decoration) - Cabaret
1973 Henry Bumstead; James Payne (Set Decoration) - The Sting
1974 Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; George R. Nelson (Set Decoration) - The Godfather Part II
1975 Ken Adam, Roy Walker; Vernon Dixon (Set Decoration) - Barry Lyndon
1976 George Jenkins; George Gaines (Set Decoration) - All the President's Men
1977 John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Roger Christian (Set Decoration) - Star Wars
1978 Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; George Gaines (Set Decoration) - Heaven Can Wait
1979 Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton; Edward Stewart, Gary Brink (Set Decoration) - All That Jazz
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
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

See also : Academy Awards