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. 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'''

★
★ 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

★ 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 - ''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

1950s

1960s

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''

★
★ 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 - ''

★
★ 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 - ''

1980s

★ 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

★ '1990 Richard Sylbert (Art Direction); Rick Simpson (Set Decoration) - ''Dick Tracy'''

★
★ Ezio Frigerio (Art Direction); Jacques Rouxel (Set Decoration) - ''Cyrano de Bergerac''

★
★ Jeffrey Beecroft (Art Direction); Lisa Dean (Set Decoration) - ''Dances with Wolves''

★
★ Dean Tavoularis (Art Direction); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration) - ''The Godfather, Part III''

★
★ Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) - ''Hamlet''

★ '1991 Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) - ''Bugsy'''

★
★ Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) - ''Barton Fink''

★
★ Mel Bourne (Art Direction); Cindy Carr (Set Decoration) - ''The Fisher King''

★
★ Norman Garwood (Art Direction); Garrett Lewis (Set Decoration) - ''Hook''

★
★ Paul Sylbert (Art Direction); Caryl Heller (Set Decoration) - ''The Prince of Tides''

★ '1992 Luciana Arrighi (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker (Set Decoration) - ''Howards End'''

★
★ Thomas Sanders (Art Direction); Garrett Lewis (Set Decoration) - ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''

★
★ Stuart Craig (Art Direction); Chris A. Butler (Set Decoration) - ''Chaplin''

★
★ Ferdinando Scarfiotti (Art Direction); Linda DeScenna (Set Decoration) - ''Toys''

★
★ Henry Bumstead (Art Direction); Janice Blackie-Goodine (Set Decoration) - ''Unforgiven''

★ '1993 Allan Starski (Art Direction); Ewa Braun (Set Decoration) - ''Schindler's List'''

★
★ Ken Adam (Art Direction); Marvin March (Set Decoration) - ''Addams Family Values''

★
★ Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Robert J. Franco (Set Decoration) - ''The Age of Innocence''

★
★ Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs (Art Direction) - ''Orlando''

★
★ Luciana Arrighi (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker (Set Decoration) - ''The Remains of the Day''

★ '1994 Ken Adam (Art Direction); Carolyn Scott (Set Decoration) - ''The Madness of King George'''

★
★ Santo Loquasto (Art Direction); Susan Bode (Set Decoration) - ''Bullets over Broadway''

★
★ Rick Carter (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) - ''Forrest Gump''

★
★ Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) - ''Interview with the Vampire''

★
★ Lilly Kilvert (Art Direction); Dorree Cooper (Set Decoration) - ''Legends of the Fall''

★ '1995 Eugenio Zanetti (Art Direction) - ''Restoration'''

★
★ Michael Corenblith (Art Direction); Merideth Boswell (Set Decoration) - ''Apollo 13''

★
★ Roger Ford (Art Direction); Kerrie Brown (Set Decoration) - ''Babe''

★
★ Bo Welch (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik (Set Decoration) - ''A Little Princess''

★
★ Tony Burrough (Art Direction) - ''Richard III''

★ '1996 Stuart Craig (Art Direction); Stephanie McMillan (Set Decoration) - ''The English Patient'''

★
★ Bo Welch (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik (Set Decoration) - ''The Birdcage''

★
★ Brian Morris (Art Direction); Philippe Turlure (Set Decoration) - ''Evita''

★
★ Tim Harvey (Art Direction) - ''Hamlet''

★
★ Catherine Martin (Art Direction); Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration) - ''William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet''

★ ' 1997 Peter Lamont (Art Direction); Michael Ford (Set Decoration) - ''Titanic'''

★
★ Jan Roelfs (Art Direction); Nancy Nye (Set Decoration) - ''Gattaca''

★
★ Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration) - ''Kundun''

★
★ Jeannine Oppewall (Art Direction); Jay R. Hart (Set Decoration) - ''L.A. Confidential''

★
★ Bo Welch (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik (Set Decoration) - ''Men in Black''

★ '1998 Martin Childs (Art Direction); Jill Quertier (Set Decoration) - ''Shakespeare in Love'''

★
★ John Myhre (Art Direction); Peter Howitt (Set Decoration) - ''Elizabeth''

★
★ Jeannine Oppewall (Art Direction); Jay Hart (Set Decoration) - ''Pleasantville''

★
★ Tom Sanders (Art Direction); Lisa Dean Kavanaugh (Set Decoration) - ''Saving Private Ryan''

★
★ Eugenio Zanetti (Art Direction); Cindy Carr (Set Decoration) - ''What Dreams May Come''

★ '1999 Rick Heinrichs (Art Direction); Peter Young (Set Decoration) - ''Sleepy Hollow'''

★
★ Luciana Arrighi (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker (Set Decoration) - ''Anna and the King''

★
★ David Gropman (Art Direction); Beth Rubino (Set Decoration) - ''The Cider House Rules''

★
★ Roy Walker (Art Direction); Bruno Cesari (Set Decoration) - ''The Talented Mr. Ripley''

★
★ Eve Stewart (Art Direction); Eve Stewart, John Bush(Set Decoration) - ''Topsy-Turvy''

2000s

★ '2000 (73rd) Tim Yip (Art Direction); - ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'''

★
★ Michael Corenblith (Art Direction); Merideth Boswell (Set Decoration) - ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''

★
★ Arthur Max (Art Direction); Crispian Sallis (Set Decoration) - ''Gladiator''

★
★ Martin Childs (Art Direction); Jill Quertier (Set Decoration) - ''Quills''

★
★ Jean Rabasse (Art Direction); Françoise Benoît-Fresco (Set Decoration) - ''Vatel''

★ '2001 (74th) Catherine Martin (Art Direction); Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration) - ''Moulin Rouge!'''

★
★ Aline Bonetto (Art Direction); Marie-Laure Valla (Set Decoration) - ''Amélie''

★
★ Stephen Altman (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) - ''Gosford Park''

★
★ Stuart Craig (Art Direction); Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration) - ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone''

★
★ Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah (Set Decoration) - ''

★ '2002 (75th) 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) - ''

★
★ Dennis Gassner (art director), Nancy Haigh (set decorator) - ''Road to Perdition''

★ '2003 (76th) Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration) '''

★
★ 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) ''

★
★ Jeannine Oppewall (Art Direction); Leslie Pope (Set Decoration) ''Seabiscuit''

★ '2004 (77th) 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 (78th) 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''

★ '2006 (79th) Eugenio Caballero (Art Direction); Pilar Revuelta (Set Decoration) Pan's Labyrinth'

★
★ ''Dreamgirls'' - John Myhre, Nancy Haigh

★
★ ''The Good Shepherd'' - Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Gretchen Rau, Leslie E. Rollins

★
★ '' - Rick Heinrichs, Cheryl Carasik

★
★ ''The Prestige'' - Nathan Crowley, Julie Ochipinti

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