Who Won Production Design Oscars?
From "The Dove" and "Tempest" in 1929 to "All Quiet On The Western Front" in 2023, the Academy Awards have recognized great achievement in production design throughout the years. The award was originally called Art Direction, but the name was changed in 2012. Other classic films to have won the Oscar for Production Design include "Titanic", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Doctor Zhivago", "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Gone With the Wind".
| 2024 (96th) |
Poor Things Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek Other Nominees: Barbie; Killers Of The Flower Moon; Napoleon; Oppenheimer |
| 2023 (95th) |
All Quiet On The Western Front Production Design: Christian M Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper Other Nominees: Avatar: The Way Of Water; Babylon; Elvis; The Fabelmans |
| 2022 (94th) |
Dune Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Other Nominees: Nightmare Alley; The Power of the Dog; The Tragedy of Macbeth; West Side Story |
| 2021 (93rd) |
Mank Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale Other Nominees: The Father; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; News Of The World; Tenet |
| 2020 (92nd) |
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Other Nominees: The Irishman; Jojo Rabbit; 1917; Parasite |
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Black Panther | Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart |  |
| 2018 | The Shape Of Water | Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin |  |
| 2017 | La La Land | David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco |  |
| 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Colin Gibson (Production Design); Lisa Thompson (Set Decoration) |  |
| 2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock |  |
| 2014 | The Great Gatsby | Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn |  |
| 2013 | Lincoln | Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson |  |
| 2012 | Hugo | Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo |  |
| 2011 | Alice In Wonderland | Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara |  |
| 2010 | Avatar | Production Design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair |  |
| 2009 | The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo |  |
| 2008 | Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo |  |
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth | Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta |  |
| 2006 | Memoirs Of A Geisha | Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau |  |
| 2005 | The Aviator | Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo |  |
| 2004 | The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King | Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee |  |
| 2003 | Chicago | Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim |  |
| 2002 | Moulin Rouge | Art Direction: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Brigitte Broch |  |
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tim Yip |  |
| 2000 | Sleepy Hollow | Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Peter Young |  |
| 1999 | Shakespeare In Love | Art Direction: Martin Childs; Set Decoration: Jill Quertier |  |
| 1998 | Titanic | Art Direction: Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Michael Ford |  |
| 1997 | The English Patient | Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan |  |
| 1996 | Restoration | Eugenio Zanetti |  |
| 1995 | The Madness Of King George | Art Direction: Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Carolyn Scott |  |
| 1994 | Schindler's List | Art Direction: Allan Starski; Set Decoration: Ewa Braun |  |
| 1993 | Howards End | Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker |  |
| 1992 | Bugsy | Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh |  |
| 1991 | Dick Tracy | Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Rick Simpson |  |
| 1990 | Batman | Art Direction: Anton Furst; Set Decoration: Peter Young |  |
| 1989 | Dangerous Liaisons | Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Gérard James |  |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Set Decoration: Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri |  |
| 1987 | A Room With A View | Art Direction: Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow; Set Decoration: Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura |  |
| 1986 | Out Of Africa | Art Direction: Stephen Grimes; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin |  |
| 1985 | Amadeus | Art Direction: Patrizia von Brandenstein; Set Decoration: Karel Černý |  |
| 1984 | Fanny & Alexander | Art Direction: Anna Asp; Set Decoration: Susanne Lingheim |  |
| 1983 | Gandhi | Art Direction: Stuart Craig and Robert W. Laing; Set Decoration: Michael Seirton |  |
| 1982 | Raiders Of The Lost Ark | Art Direction: Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford |  |
| 1981 | Tess | Art Direction and Set Decoration: Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens |  |
| 1980 | All That Jazz | Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart and Gary Brink |  |
| 1979 | Heaven Can Wait | Art Direction: Paul Sylbert and Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines | |
| 1978 | Star Wars | Art Direction: John Barry, Norman Reynolds & Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Roger Christian | |
| 1977 | All The President's Men | Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines | |
| 1976 | Barry Lyndon | Art Direction: Ken Adam & Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon |
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| 1975 The Godfather Part II | |
| Dean Tavoularis; Angelo Graham; George R Nelson | |
| Other Nominees: Chinatown; Earthquake; The Island at the Top of the World; The Towering Inferno | |
| 1974 The Sting | |
| Henry Bumstead; James Payne | |
| Other Nominees: Brother Sun Sister Moon; The Exorcist; Tom Sawyer; The Way We Were | |
| 1973 Cabaret | |
| Rolf Zehetbauer; Jurgen Kiebach; Herbert Strabel | |
| Other Nominees: Lady Sings the Blues; The Poseidon Adventure; Travels With My Aunt; Young Winston | |
| 1972 Nicholas and Alexandra | |
| John Box; Ernest Archer; Jack Maxsted; Gil Parrondo; Vernon Dixon | |
| Other Nominees: The Andromeda Strain; Bedknobs and Broomsticks; Fiddler on the Roof; Mary Queen of Scots | |
| 1971 Patton | |
| Urie McCleary; Gil Parrondo; Antonio Mateos; Pierre-Louis Thevenet | |
| Other Nominees: Airport; The Molly Maguires; Scrooge; Tora! Tora! Tora! | |
| 1970 Hello Dolly! | |
| John DeCUir; Jack Martin Smith; Herman Blumenthal; Walter M Scott; George Hopkins; Raphael Bretton | |
| Other Nominees: Anne Of the Thousand Days; Gaily Gaily; Sweet Charity; They Shoot Horses Don't They? | |
| 1969 Oliver! | |
| John Box; Terence Marsh; Vernon Dixon; Ken Muggleston | |
| Other Nominees: The Shoes of the Fisherman; Star!; 2001: A Space Odyssey; War and Peace | |
| 1968 Camelot | |
| John Truscott; Edward Carrere; John W Brown | |
| Other Nominees: Doctor Dolittle; Guess Who's Coming To Dinner; The Taming of the Shrew; Thoroughly Modern Millie | |
| 1967 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Richard Sylbert; George James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: The Fortune Cookie; The Gospel According To St Matthew; Is Paris Burning?; Mister Buddwing | |
| 1967 Fantastic Voyage | |
| Jack Martin Smith; Dale Hennesy; Walter M Scott; Stuart A Reiss | |
| Other Nominees: Gambit; Juliet of the Spirits; The Oscar; The Sand Pebbles | |
| 1966 Ship of Fools | |
| Robert Clatworthy; Joseph Kish | |
| Other Nominees: King Rat; A Patch of Blue; The Slender Thread; The Spy Who Came In From the Cold | |
| 1966 Doctor Zhivago | |
| John Box; Terry Marsh; Dario Simoni | |
| Other Nominees: The Agony and the Ecstasy; The Greatest Story Ever Told; Inside Daisy Clover; The Sound of Music | |
| 1965 Zorba the Greek | |
| Vassilis Fotopoulos | |
| Other Nominees: The Americanization of Emily; Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; The Night of the Iguana; Seven Days In May | |
| 1965 My Fair Lady | |
| Gene Allen; Cecil Beaton; George James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: Becket; Mary Poppins; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; What A Way To Go! | |
| 1964 America America | |
| Gene Callahan | |
| Other Nominees: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2; Hud; Love with the Proper Stranger | |
| 1964 Cleopatra | |
| John DeCuir; Jack Martin Smith; Hilyard Brown; Herman Blumenthal; Elven Webb; Maurice Pelling; Boris Juraga; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: The Cardinal; Come Blow Your Horn; How the West Was Won; Tom Jones | |
| 1963 To Kill A Mockingbird | |
| Alexander Golitzen; Henry Bumstead; Oliver Emert | |
| Other Nominees: Days of Wine and Roses; The Longest Day; Period of Adjustment; The Pigeon that Took Rome | |
| 1963 Lawrence of Arabia | |
| John Box; John Stoll; Dario Simoni | |
| Other Nominees: The Music Man; Mutiny on the Bounty; That Touch of Mink; The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | |
| 1962 The Hustler | |
| Harry Horner; Gene Callahan | |
| Other Nominees: The Absent Minded Professor; The Children's Hour; Judgment at Nuremberg; La Dolce Vita | |
| 1962 West Side Story | |
| Boris Leven; Victor A Gangelin | |
| Other Nominees: Breakfast At Tiffany's; El Cid; Flower Drum Song; Summer and Smoke | |
| 1961 The Apartment | |
| Alexander Trauner; Edward G Boyle | |
| Other Nominees: The Facts of Life; Psycho; Sons and Lovers; Visit To A Small Planet | |
| 1961 Spartacus | |
| Alexander Golitzen; Eric Orbom; Russell A Gausman; Julia Heron | |
| Other Nominees: Cimarron; It Started In Naples; Pepe; Sunrise at Campobello | |
| 1960 The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Lyle R Wheeler; George W Davis; Walter M Scott; Stuart A Reiss | |
| Other Nominees: Career; The Last Angry Man; Some Like It Hot; Suddenly Last Summer | |
| 1960 Ben-Hur | |
| William A Horning; Edward Carfagno; Hugh Hunt | |
| Other Nominees: The Big Fisherman; Journey to the Center of the Earth; North By Northwest; Pillow Talk | |
| 1959 Gigi | |
| William A Horning; Preston Ames; Henry Grace; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Bell Book and Candle; A Certain Smile; Vertigo | |
| 1958 Sayonara | |
| Ted Haworth; Robert Priestley | |
| Other Nominees: Funny Face; Les Girls; Pal Joey; Raintree County | |
| 1957 Somebody Up There Likes Me | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Malcolm F Brown; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: The Magnificent Seven; The Proud and the Profane; The Solid Gold Cadillac; Teenage Rebel | |
| 1957 The King and I | |
| Lyle R Wheeler; John DeCuir; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox | |
| Other Nominees: Around the World In 80 Days; Giant; Lust For Life; The Ten Commandments | |
| 1956 The Rose Tattoo | |
| Hal Pereira; Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer; Arthur Krams | |
| Other Nominees: Blackboard Jungle; I'll Cry Tomorrow; The Man With the Golden Arm; Marty | |
| 1956 Picnic | |
| William Flannery; Jo Mielziner; Robert Priestley | |
| Other Nominees: Daddy Long Legs; Guys and Dolls; Love is a Many Splendored Thing; To Catch a Thief | |
| 1955 On The Waterfront | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: The Country Girl; Executive Suite; Le Plasir; Sabrina | |
| 1955 20000 Leagues Under The Sea | |
| John Meehan; Emile Kuri | |
| Other Nominees: Brigadoon; Desiree; Red Garters; A Star Is Born | |
| 1954 Julius Caesar | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Edward Carfagno; Edwin B Willis; Hugh Hunt | |
| Other Nominees: Martin Luther; The President's Lady; Roman Holiday; Titanic | |
| 1954 The Robe | |
| Lyle Wheeler; George W Davis; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox | |
| Other Nominees: Knights of the Round Table; Lili; The Story of Three Loves; Young Bess | |
| 1953 The Bad and the Beautiful | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Edward Carfagno; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: Carrie; My Cousin Rachel; Rashomon; Viva Zapata! | |
| 1953 Moulin Rouge | |
| Paul Sheriff; Marcel Vertes | |
| Other Nominees: Hans Christian Andersen; The Merry Widow; The Quiet Man; The Snows of Kilimanjaro | |
| 1952 A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Richard Day; James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: Fourteen Hours; House on Telegraph Hill; La Ronde; Too Young To Kiss | |
| 1952 An American In Paris | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Preston Ames; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: David and Bathsheba; On the Riviera; Quo Vadis; Tales of Hoffman | |
| 1951 Sunset Blvd | |
| Hans Dreier; John Meehan; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: All About Eve; The Red Danube | |
| 1951 Samson and Delilah | |
| Hans Dreier; Walter Tyler; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: Annie Get Your Gun; Destination Moon | |
| 1950 The Heiress | |
| Harry Horner; John Meehan; Emile Kuri | |
| Other Nominees: Come To the Stable; Madame Bovary | |
| 1950 Little Women | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B Willis; Jack D Moore | |
| Other Nominees: The Adventures of Don Juan; Saraband | |
| 1949 Hamlet | |
| Roger K Furse; Carmen Dillon | |
| Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda | |
| 1949 The Red Shoes | |
| Hein Heckroth; Arthur Lawson | |
| Other Nominees: Joan of Arc | |
| 1948 Great Expectations | |
| John Bryan; Wilfred Shingleton | |
| Other Nominees: The Foxes of Harrow | |
| 1948 Black Narcissus | |
| Alfred Junge | |
| Other Nominees: Life With Father | |
| 1947 Anna And The King Of Siam | |
| Lyle Wheeler; William Darling; Thomas Little; Frank E Hughes | |
| Other Nominees: Kitty; The Razor's Edge | |
| 1947 The Yearling | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B Willis | |
| Other Nominees: Caesar and Cleopatra; Henry V | |
| 1946 Blood on the Sun | |
| Wiard Ihnen; A Roland Fields | |
| Other Nominees: Experiment Perilous; The Keys of the Kingdom; Love Letters; The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| 1946 Frenchman's Creek | |
| Hans Dreier; Ernst Fegte; Sam Comer | |
| Other Nominees: Leave Her To Heaven; National Velvet; San Antonion; A Thousand and One Nights | |
| 1945 Gaslight | |
| Cedric Gibbons; William Ferrari; Edwin B Willis; Paul Huldschinsky | |
| Other Nominees: Address Unknown; The Adventures of Mark Twain; Casanova Brown; Laura; No Time For Love; Since You Went Away; Step Lively | |
| 1945 Wilson | |
| Wiard Ihnen; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: The Climax; Cover Girl; The Desert Song; Kismet; Lady in the Dark; The Princess and the Pirate | |
| 1944 The Song of Bernadette ("The Song Of Bernadette") | |
| James Basevi; William Darling; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Five Graves To Cairo; Flight For Freedom; Madame Curie; Mission To Moscow; The North Star | |
| 1944 Phantom of the Opera | |
| John B Goodman; Alexander Golitzen; Russell A Gausman; Ira S Webb | |
| Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Gang's All Here; This Is the Army; Thousands Cheer | |
| 1943 This Above All | |
| Richard Day; Joseph Wright; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: George Washington Slept Here; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Pride of the Yankees; Random Harvest; The Shanghai Gesture; Silver Queen; The Spoilers; Take a Letter Darling; The Talk of the Town | |
| 1943 My Gal Sal | |
| Richard Day; Joseph Wright; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Arabian Nights; Captains of the Clouds; Jungle Book; Reap the Wild Wind | |
| 1942 How Green Was My Valley | |
| Richard Day; Nathan Juran; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Citizen Kane; The Flame of New Orleans; Hold Back the Dawn; Ladies In Retirement; The Little Foxes; Sergeant York; The Son of Monte Cristo; Sundown; That Hamilton Woman; When Ladies Meet | |
| 1942 Blossoms In the Dust | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Urie McCleary; Edwin B Willis | |
| Other Nominees: Blood and Sand; Louisiana Purchase | |
| 1941 Pride and Prejudice | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse | |
| Other Nominees: Arise My Love; Arizona; The Boys from Syracuse; The Dark Command; Foreign Correspondent; Lillian Russell; My Favorite Wife; My Son My Son!; Our Town; Rebecca; The Sea Hawk; The Westerner | |
| 1941 The Thief of Bagdad | |
| Vincent Korda | |
| Other Nominees: Bitter Sweet; Down Argentine Way; North West Mounted Police | |
| 1940 Gone With the Wind | |
| Lyle Wheeler | |
| Other Nominees: Beau Geste; Captain Fury; First Love; Love Affair; Man of Conquest; Mr Smith Goes To Washington; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; The Rains Came; Stagecoach; The Wizard of Oz; Wuthering Heights | |
| 1939 The Adventures of Robin Hood | |
| Carl J Weyl | |
| Other Nominees: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Algiers; Carefree; The Goldwyn Follies; Holiday; If I Were King; Mad About Music; Marie Antoinette; Merrily We Live | |
| 1938 Lost Horizon | |
| Stephen Goossan | |
| Other Nominees: Conquest; A Damsel In Distress; Dead End; Every Day's A Holiday; The Life of Emile Zola; Manhattan Merry-Go-Round; The Prisoner of Zenda; Souls at Sea; Vogues of 1938; Wee Willie Winkie; Your're A Sweetheart | |
| 1937 Dodsworth | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse; The Great Ziegfeld; Lloyds of London; The Magnificent Brute; Romeo and Juliet; Winterset | |
| 1936 The Dark Angel | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: The Lives of Bengal Lancer; Top Hat | |
| 1935 The Merry Widow | |
| Cedric Gibbons;Fredric Hope | |
| Other Nominees: The Affairs of Cellini; The Gay Divorcee | |
| 1934 Cavalcade | |
| William S Darling | |
| Other Nominees: A Farewell To Arms; When Ladies Meet | |
| 1932 Transatlantic | |
| Gordon Wiles | |
| Other Nominees: A Nous La Liberte; Arrowsmith | |
| 1931 Cimarron | |
| Max Ree | |
| Other Nominees: Just Imagine; Morocco; Svengali; Whoopee | |
| 1930 King of Jazz | |
| Herman Rosse | |
| Other Nominees: Bulldog Drummond; The Love Parade; Sally; The Vagabond King | |
| 1930 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey | |
| Cedric Gibbons | |
| Other Nominees: Hans Dreier; Mtichell Leisen; William Cameron Menzies; Harry Oliver | |
| 1929 The Dove | |
| William Cameron Menzies | |
| Other Nominees: Rochus Gliese; Harry Oliver | |