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Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceThe 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. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
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
- 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 - À nous la liberté
- Richard Day - Arrowsmith
- 1933 William S. Darling - Cavalcade
- 1934 Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope - The Merry Widow
- Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark - The Gay Divorcee
- Richard Day - The Affairs of Cellini
- 1935 Richard Day - The Dark Angel
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - The 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 - The 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
- 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 - The 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
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
- 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
1950s
- 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, E. 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
- So Matsuyama, H. Motsumoto - 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 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, E. 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 Ophüls - 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, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Désirée
- 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 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
- So Matsuyama - Seven Samurai
- 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
For 1957 films this award became a single award.
- 1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara
- Hal Pereira, George 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, E. 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 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
- 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 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 (film)
- 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 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