Last Updated on 11 March 2024
1927-present: Wikipedia
Recognizes excellence in overall design of the movie, including art direction and physical aspects such as the set. In 2010, “Art Directors” became “Production Designers.”
| Best Art Direction / Set Decoration | |||
| Year | Movie | Art Directors / Production Designers | Set Decorators |
| 2023 | Poor Things | James Price, Shona Heath | Zsuzsa Mihalek |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Christian M. Goldbeck | Ernestine Hipper |
| 2021 | Dune | Patrice Vermette | Zsuzsanna Sipos |
| 2020 | Mank | Donald Graham Burt | Jan Pascale |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Barbara Ling | Nancy Haigh |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Hannah Beachler | Jay Hart |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Paul D. Austerberry | Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin |
| 2016 | La La Land | David Wasco, Austin Gorg | Sandy Reynolds-Wasco |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Colin Gibson | Lisa Thompson |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Adam Stockhausen | Anna Pinnock |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | Catherine Martin | Beverley Dunn |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Rick Carter | Jim Erickson |
| 2011 | Hugo | Dante Ferretti | Francesca Lo Schiavo |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Robert Stromberg | Karen O’Hara |
| 2009 | Avatar | Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg | Kim Sinclair |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Donald Graham Burt | Victor J. Zolfo |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Dante Ferretti | Francesca Lo Schiavo |
| 2006 | Pan’s Labyrinth | Eugenio Caballero | Pilar Revuelta |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | John Myhre | Gretchen Rau |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Dante Ferretti | Francesca Lo Schiavo |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Grant Major | Dan Hennah and Alan Lee |
| 2002 | Chicago | John Myhre | Gordon Sim |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Catherine Martin | Brigitte Broch |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tim Yip | — |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Rick Heinrichs | Peter Young |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Martin Childs | Jill Quertier |
| 1997 | Titanic | Peter Lamont | Michael D. Ford |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Stuart Craig | Stephenie McMillan |
| 1995 | Restoration | Eugenio Zanetti | — |
| 1994 | The Madness of King George | Ken Adam | Carolyn Scott |
| 1993 | Schindler’s List | Allan Starski | Ewa Braun |
| 1992 | Howards End | Luciana Arrighi | Ian Whittaker |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Dennis Gassner | Nancy Haigh |
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Richard Sylbert | Rick Simpson |
| 1989 | Batman | Anton Furst | Peter Young |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Stuart Craig | Gérard James |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Ferdinando Scarfiotti | Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri |
| 1986 | A Room with a View | Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow | Brian Savegar and Elio Altamura |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Stephen Grimes | Josie Macavin |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Patrizia von Brandenstein | Karel Černý |
| 1983 | Fanny and Alexander | Anna Asp | Susanne Lingheim |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Stuart Craig and Robert W. Laing | Michael Seirton |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley | Michael D. Ford |
| 1980 | Tess | Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens | — |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton | Edward Stewart and Gary Brink |
| 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | Paul Sylbert and Edwin O’Donovan | George Gaines |
| 1977 | Star Wars | John Barry, Norman Reynolds, and Leslie Dilley | Roger Christian |
| 1976 | All the President’s Men | George Jenkins | George Gaines |
| 1975 | Barry Lyndon | Ken Adam and Roy Walker | Vernon DIxon |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham | George R. Nelson |
| 1973 | The Sting | Henry Bumstead | James W. Payne |
| 1972 | Cabaret | Rolf Zehetbauer and Jurgen Kiebach | Herbert Strabel |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, and Gil Parrondo | Vernon Dixon |
| 1970 | Patton | Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo | Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thevenet |
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, and Herman Blumenthal | Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, and Raphael Bretton |
| 1968 | Oliver! | John Box and Terence Marsh | Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston |
| 1967 | Camelot | John Truscott and Edward Carrere | John W. Brown |
| 1966 Color | Fantastic Voyage | Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy | Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss |
| 1966 B&W | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Richard Sylbert | George James Hopkins |
| 1965 Color | Doctor Zhivago | John Box and Terence Marsh | Dario SImoni |
| 1965 B&W | Ship of Fools | Robert Clatworthy | Joseph Kish |
| 1964 Color | My Fair Lady | Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton | George James Hopkins |
| 1964 B&W | Zorba the Greek | Vassilis Fotopoulos | — |
| 1963 Color | Cleopatra | John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, and Boris Juraga | Watler M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, and Ray Moyer |
| 1963 B&W | America America | Gene Callahan | — |
| 1962 Color | Lawrence of Arabia | John Box and John Stoll | Dario Simoni |
| 1962 B&W | To Kill a Mockingbird | Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead | Oliver Emert |
| 1961 Color | West Side Story | Boris Leven | Victor A. Gangelin |
| 1961 B&W | The Hustler | Alexander Trauner | Gene Callahan |
| 1960 Color | Spartacus | Harry Horner | Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron |
| 1960 B&W | The Apartment | Alexander Trauner | Edward G. Boyle |
| 1959 Color | Ben-Hur | William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno | Hugh Hunt |
| 1959 B&W | The Diary of Anne Frank | Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis | Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss |
| 1958 | Gigi | William A. Horning and E. Preston Ames | Henry Grace and F. Keogh Gleason |
| 1957 | Sayonara | Ted Haworth | Robert Priestley |
| 1956 Color | The King and I | Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir | Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox |
| 1956 B&W | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm F. Brown | Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason |
| 1955 Color | Picnic | William Flannery | Jo Mielziner and Robert Priestley |
| 1955 B&W | The Rose Tattoo | Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen | Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams |
| 1954 Color | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | John Meehan | Emile Kuri |
| 1954 B&W | On the Waterfront | Richard Day | — |
| 1953 Color | The Robe | George Davis and Lyle Wheeler | Paul S. Fox and Walter M. Scott |
| 1953 B&W | Julius Caesar | Edward Carfagno and Cedric Gibbons | Hugh Hunt and Edwin B. Willis |
| 1952 Color | Moulin Rouge | Marcel Vertes | Paul Sheriff |
| 1952 B&W | The Bad and the Beautiful | Edward Carfagno and Cedric Gibbons | Keogh Gleason and Edwin B. Willis |
| 1951 Color | An American in Paris | E. Preston Ames and Cedric Gibbons | Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason |
| 1951 B&W | A Streetcar Named Desire | Richard Day | George James Hopkins |
| 1950 Color | Samson and Delilah | Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler | Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer |
| 1950 B&W | Sunset Boulevard | Hans Dreier and John Meehan | Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer |
| 1949 Color | Little Women | Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse | Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore |
| 1949 B&W | The Heiress | Harry Horner and John Meehan | Emile Kuri |
| 1948 Color | The Red Shoes | Arthur Lawson | Hein Heckroth |
| 1948 B&W | Hamlet | Carmen Dillon | Roger K. Furse |
| 1947 Color | Black Narcissus | Alfred Junge | — |
| 1947 B&W | Great Expectations | Wilfred Shingleton | John Bryan |
| Best Interior Decoration | |||
| Year | Movie | Interior Decorators | |
| 1946 Color | The Yearling | Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, and Edwin B. Willis | |
| 1946 B&W | Anna and the King of Siam | William S. Darling, Lyle WHeeler, Thomas Little, and Frank E. Hughes | |
| 1945 Color | Frenchman’s Creek | Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, and Samuel M. Comer | |
| 1945 B&W | Blood on the Sun | Wiard Ihnen and A. Roland Fields | |
| 1944 Color | Wilson | Wiard Ihnen and Thomas Little | |
| 1944 B&W | Gaslight | Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, and Edwin B. Willis | |
| 1943 Color | Phantom of the Opera | Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, and Ira S. Webb | |
| 1943 B&W | The Song of Bernadette | James Basevi, William S. Darling, and Thomas Little | |
| 1942 Color | My Gal Sal | Richard Day, Joseph Wright, and Thomas LIttle | |
| 1942 B&W | This Above All | Richard Day, Joseph Wright, and Thomas Little | |
| 1941 Color | Blossoms in the Dust | Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, and Edwin B. Willis | |
| 1941 B&W | How Green Was My Valley | Cedirc Gibbons, Nathan H. Juran, and Thomas Little | |
| 1940 Color | The Thief of Bagdad | Vincent Korda | |
| 1940 B&W | Pride and Prejudice | Richard Day and Paul Groesse | |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Lyle Wheeler | |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Carl J. Weyl | |
| 1937 | Lost Horizon | Stephen Goosson | |
| 1936 | Dodsworth | Richard Day | |
| 1935 | The Dark Angel | Richard Day | |
| 1934 | The Merry Widow | Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope | |
| 1932/33 | Cavalcade | William S. Darling | |
| 1931/32 | Transatlantic | Gordon Wiles | |
| 1930/31 | Cimarron | Max Ree | |
| 1929/30 | King of Jazz | Herman Rosse | |
| 1928/29 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Cedric Gibbons | |
| 1927/28 | The Dove | William Cameron Menzies | |
| 1927/28 | Tempest | William Cameron Menzies | |
| 1927/28 | |||
