Academy Award for Best Art Direction
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. 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.

Superlatives

Category Name Superlative Notes
Most Awards Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

11 awards Awards resulted from 39 nominations.
Most Nominations Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

39 nominations Nominations resulted in 11 awards.
Most Nominations
(without ever winning)
Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson
Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

15 nominations Anderson died in 1989.

1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration
  • 1927/1928 William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades...

     – The Dove and Tempest
    • Harry Oliver
      Harry Oliver
      Harold "Pee-Wee" Oliver was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League and the Boston Bruins and New York Americans of the National Hockey League . He was a member of the Tigers' 1924 WCHL championship and won the Stanley Cup with the...

       – Seventh Heaven
    • Rochus Gliese
      Rochus Gliese
      Rochus Gliese was a German actor, director, production designer, and Academy Award-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s. He was born in Berlin, Germany....

       – Sunrise
      Sunrise (film)
      Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American silent film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit" by Hermann Sudermann.Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production...

  • 1929/1929 Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

     – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929 film)
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in both silent and part-talkie versions. The was film directed by Charles Brabin and starred Lili Damita and Don Alvarado...

    • Mitchell Leisen
      Mitchell Leisen
      Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer.-Film career:He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments...

       – Dynamite
      Dynamite (film)
      Dynamite is a drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It stars Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford and Julia Faye...

    • William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades...

       – Alibi and The Awakening
      The Awakening (1928 film)
      The Awakening is a feature film directed by Victor Fleming.-Cast:*Vilma Bánky as Marie Ducrot*Walter Byron as Count Karl von Hagen*Louis Wolheim as Le Bete*George Davis as The Orderly*William Orlamond as Grandfather Ducrot...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

       – The Patriot
      The Patriot (1928 film)
      The Patriot is a 1928 semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Hanns Kräly ; it is an adaptation of several different plays: Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann, and The Patriot by Ashley Dukes...

    • Harry Oliver
      Harry Oliver
      Harold "Pee-Wee" Oliver was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League and the Boston Bruins and New York Americans of the National Hockey League . He was a member of the Tigers' 1924 WCHL championship and won the Stanley Cup with the...

       – Street Angel

1930s

  • 1929/1930 Herman Rosse
    Herman Rosse
    Hermann Rosse was a Dutch-born American art director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film King of Jazz....

     – King of Jazz
    King of Jazz
    King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation...

    • William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades...

       – Bulldog Drummond
      Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
      Bulldog Drummond is a detective film which tells the story of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl. The film stars Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

       – The Love Parade
      The Love Parade
      The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film about the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her consort, Count Alfred Renard...

    • Jack Okey – Sally
      Sally (film)
      Sally is the third all talking-all color movie ever made . The color process of Sally was Technicolor...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

       – The Vagabond King
      The Vagabond King (1930 film)
      The Vagabond King is a 1930 American musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, which was based on the 1901 play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The play told the story of a renegade French...

  • 1930/1931 Max Ree
    Max Rée
    Max Rée was a Danish Costume Designer and art director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Los Angeles, California.-External links:...

     – Cimarron
    Cimarron (1931 film)
    Cimarron is a 1931 Pre-Code film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. It won three Academy Awards.-Background:...

    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...

      , Ralph Hammeras
      Ralph Hammeras
      Ralph Hammeras was an American special effects designer, cinematographer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.-Awards:...

       – Just Imagine
      Just Imagine
      Just Imagine is a 1930 science-fiction musical comedy directed by David Butler, to console audiences distressed by the Great Depression. The film is probably best known for its art direction and special effects in its portrayal of New York City in an imagined 1980...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

       – Morocco
      Morocco (1930 film)
      Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a singer. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The story was adapted by Jules Furthman from the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny...

    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot
      Anton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...

       – Svengali
      Svengali (1931 film)
      Svengali is a drama/horror film starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Bramwell Fletcher, directed by Archie Mayo, written by J. Grubb Alexander, and released by Warner Brothers. It is based on the gothic horror novel Trilby by George du Maurier. The film was originally released on May 22, 1931...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

       – Whoopee!
      Whoopee! (film)
      Whoopee is a 1930 "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film closely followed the stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928.-Production:...

  • 1931/1932 Gordon Wiles
    Gordon Wiles
    Gordon Wiles was an American art director and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic.He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.-Selected filmography:* Transatlantic...

     – Transatlantic
    Transatlantic (film)
    Transatlantic is a 1931 comedy film directed by William K. Howard. It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Gordon Wiles. -Cast:* Edmund Lowe - Monty Greer* Lois Moran - Judy Kramer* John Halliday - Henry D. Graham...

    • Lazare Meerson
      Lazare Meerson
      Lazare Meerson was a Russian-born French and English film art director.-Filmography:* L'Argent * Sous les Toits de Paris * Quatorze Juillet * Le Grand Jeu* Pension Mimosas...

       – À nous la liberté
      À nous la liberté
      À nous la liberté is a 1931 French film directed by René Clair. With a score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early films.-Plot:...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

       – Arrowsmith
      Arrowsmith (film)
      Arrowsmith is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Sidney Howard from the Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith, and directed by John Ford.-Plot:...

  • 1932/1933 William S. Darling
    William S. Darling
    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

     – Cavalcade
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

       – A Farewell to Arms
      A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)
      A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

       – When Ladies Meet
      When Ladies Meet (1933 film)
      When Ladies Meet is a 1933 Pre-Code film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Alice Brady. The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play of the same name...

  • 1934 Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Fredric Hope
    Fredric Hope
    Fredric Hope was an American art director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Merry Widow.He was born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood, California....

     – The Merry Widow
    The Merry Widow (1934 film)
    The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald...

    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

       – The Gay Divorcee
      The Gay Divorcee
      The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

       – The Affairs of Cellini
      The Affairs of Cellini
      The Affairs of Cellini is a comedy film set in Florence over 400 years ago. This 1934 movie was adapted by Bess Meredyth from the play The Firebrand of Florence by Edwin Justus Mayer. It was directed by Gregory La Cava.-Plot:...

  • 1935 Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

     – The Dark Angel
    The Dark Angel (1935 film)
    The Dark Angel is a 1935 film which tells the story of three childhood friends, two male, one female. When the woman chooses one of the men to marry, the other, jealous, sends his rival off into a dangerous situation during wartime...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

       – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...

    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

      , Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

       – Top Hat
      Top Hat
      Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick . He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont to win her affection...

  • 1936 Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

     – Dodsworth
    Dodsworth (film)
    Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis...

    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot
      Anton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...

       – Anthony Adverse
      Anthony Adverse
      Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen.-Plot:...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Eddie Imazu
      Eddie Imazu
      Eddie Imazu was a Japanese art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Great Ziegfeld.He was born in Yamaguchi, Japan and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Edwin B. Willis – The Great Ziegfeld
      The Great Ziegfeld
      The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 musical film produced by MGM. A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin...

    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling
      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Lloyd's of London
      Lloyd's of London (film)
      Lloyd's of London is a 1936 American drama film directed by Henry King. It stars Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, and Guy Standing. The supporting cast includes Freddie Bartholomew, George Sanders, Virginia Field, and C. Aubrey Smith. Loosely based on history, the film follows the dealings of a man...

    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Magnificent Brute
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis – Romeo and Juliet
      Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
      Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings...

    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – Winterset
      Winterset (film)
      Winterset is a 1936 crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson.The film greatly changes the ending of the play, in which the lovers Mio and Miriamne are shot to death by gangsters...

  • 1937 Stephen Goosson
    Stephen Goosson
    Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...

     – Lost Horizon
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , William Horning – Conquest
    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

       – A Damsel in Distress
      A Damsel in Distress (film)
      A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

       – Dead End
      Dead End
      Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney...

    • Ward Ihnen – Every Day's a Holiday
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot
      Anton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...

       – The Life of Emile Zola
      The Life of Emile Zola
      The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola. Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus...

    • John Victor MacKay
      John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
      Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (film)
      Manhattan Merry-Go-Round is a 1937 American film directed by Charles Reisner. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John Victor Mackay.The film is also known as Manhattan Music Box in the United Kingdom.- Cast :...

    • Lyle Wheeler – The Prisoner of Zenda
      The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
      The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 black-and-white adventure film based on the Anthony Hope 1894 novel of the same name and the 1896 play. Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version....

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

       – Souls at Sea
      Souls at Sea
      Souls at Sea is a 1937 seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. The title of this film was spoofed in the Laurel and Hardy...

    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Lublin, Poland and died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.-Selected filmography:...

       – Vogues of 1938
      Vogues of 1938
      Vogues of 1938 is a 1937 musical film distributed by United Artists, directed by Irving Cummings, written by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack, and starring by Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett...

    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling
      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

      , David S. Hall
      David S. Hall
      David S. Hall was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hall was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Wee Willie Winkie
      Wee Willie Winkie (film)
      Wee Willie Winkie is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Ford. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Ernest Pascal was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. The film stars Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, and Cesar Romero in a story about the British presence in nineteenth century...

    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – You're a Sweetheart
      You're a Sweetheart
      You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 Universal musical film directed by David Butler. The movie stars Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray and was remade in 1943 under the title Cowboy in Manhattan....

  • 1938 Carl J. Weyl – The Adventures of Robin Hood
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)
    The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.-Plot:...

    • Lyle Wheeler – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a 1938 American drama film directed by Norman Taurog. The screenplay by John V.A. Weaver was based on the classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain.-Plot:...

    • Bernard Herzbrun
      Bernard Herzbrun
      Bernard Herzbrun was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Alexander's Ragtime Band. He worked on 275 films between 1930 and 1955....

      , Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

       – Alexander's Ragtime Band
      Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
      Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film released by Twentieth Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in Ragtime instead of in "serious" music...

    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Lublin, Poland and died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.-Selected filmography:...

       – Algiers
      Algiers (film)
      Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name...

    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

       – Carefree
      Carefree (film)
      Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

       – The Goldwyn Follies
      The Goldwyn Follies
      The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Some sources credit Kurt Weill as one of the composers, but this is apparently incorrect...

    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...

      , Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

       – Holiday
      Holiday (1938 film)
      Holiday is a 1938 is a film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film is a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 208 films between 1934 and 1968, including It's a Gift starring W.C...

       – If I Were King
      If I Were King
      If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee...

    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Mad About Music
      Mad About Music
      Mad About Music is a 1938 musical film about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

       – Marie Antoinette
      Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
      Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette...

    • Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall was a British-American art director and production designer. He is perhaps best remembered for his tenure at Universal Pictures, where he began his career during the silent era...

       – Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live is a 1938 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It stars Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne and features Ann Dvorak, Bonita Granville, Billie Burke, Tom Brown, Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb and Patsy Kelly. The film was produced by Hal Roach for Hal Roach Studios, and was...

  • 1939 Lyle Wheeler – Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)
    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Robert Odell
      Robert Odell
      Robert Odell was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Beau Geste.-External links:...

       – Beau Geste
      Beau Geste (1939 film)
      Beau Geste is a 1939 film produced by Paramount Pictures based on the novel of the same name by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A. Wellman from a screenplay by Robert Carson...

    • Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall was a British-American art director and production designer. He is perhaps best remembered for his tenure at Universal Pictures, where he began his career during the silent era...

       – Captain Fury
      Captain Fury
      Captain Fury is a 1939 adventure film directed by Hal Roach. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Charles D. Hall.-Cast:* Brian Aherne - Captain Michael Fury* Victor McLaglen - Blackie* Paul Lukas - Francois Dupre...

    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York, New York.-Selected filmography:...

       – First Love
      First Love (1939 film)
      First Love is a 1939 Oscar nominated Universal musical film directed by Henry Koster. The film is a rewriting of the fairy tale Cinderella. It was released on both VHS and DVD .-Plot:...

    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

      , Alfred Herman
      Alfred Herman
      Alfred Herman was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair....

       – Love Affair
    • John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Man of Conquest
      Man of Conquest
      Man of Conquest is a 1939 Western film directed by George Nichols Jr.. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Score, Best Sound and Best Art Direction .-Cast:* Richard Dix - Sam Houston...

    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

       – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...

    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot
      Anton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...

       – The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 historical romantic drama film. It is based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn...

    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling
      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

      , George Dudley
      George Dudley (art director)
      George Dudley was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Rains Came.-Filmography:* The Caribbean Mystery...

       – The Rains Came
      The Rains Came
      The Rains Came is the title of a novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937, as well as the 1939 20th Century Fox film version which followed it...

    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Lublin, Poland and died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.-Selected filmography:...

       – Stagecoach
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , William A. Horning
      William A. Horning
      William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

       – The Wizard of Oz
      The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
      The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

    • James Basevi
      James Basevi
      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert....

       – Wuthering Heights
      Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
      Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American black-and-white film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters. The...



With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color films.

1940s

  • 1940 Black-and-white Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

     – Pride and Prejudice
    Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)
    Pride and Prejudice is a 1940 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name. Robert Z. Leonard directed, and Aldous Huxley served as one of the screenwriters of the film. It is adapted specifically from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome in addition to Jane Austen's novel...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher
      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Arise, My Love
      Arise, My Love
      Arise, My Love is a 1940 American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry, and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland....

    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

      , Robert Peterson
      Robert Peterson (art director)
      Robert Peterson was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Arizona.-External links:...

       – Arizona
      Arizona (1940 film)
      Arizona is a 1940 American Western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art...

    • John Otterson – The Boys from Syracuse
      The Boys from Syracuse (film)
      The Boys from Syracuse is a 1940 musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, based on a stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, which in turn was based on the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare...

    • John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Dark Command
      Dark Command
      Dark Command is a 1940 western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders in the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

       – Foreign Correspondent
      Foreign Correspondent (film)
      Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Lillian Russell
      Lillian Russell (film)
      Lillian Russell is a 1940 biographical film of the life of the singer and actress. The screenplay was by William Anthony McGuire. The film was directed by Irving Cummings and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It starred Alice Faye in the title role, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda and Edward Arnold as Diamond...

    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

      , Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 and 1959.-Selected filmography:...

       – My Favorite Wife
      My Favorite Wife
      My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The movie stars Irene Dunne as a woman who returns to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years, and Cary Grant as her husband...

    • John DuCasse Schulze
      John DuCasse Schulze
      John DuCasse Schulze was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – My Son, My Son
    • Lewis J. Rachmil
      Lewis J. Rachmil
      Lewis J. Rachmil was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Our Town. In the mid and late 1940s, he produced several of William Boyd's popular Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns...

       – Our Town
    • Lyle Wheeler – Rebecca
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot
      Anton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...

       – The Sea Hawk
      The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
      The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I...

    • James Basevi
      James Basevi
      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert....

       – The Westerner
  • 1940 Color Vincent Korda
    Vincent Korda
    Vincent Korda was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltán Korda. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once.He died in London, England...

     – The Thief of Bagdad
    The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)
    The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda, and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, with contributions by Korda's brothers Vincent and Zoltán, and William Cameron Menzies...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , John S. Detlie
      John S. Detlie
      John Stewart Detlie was an American motion picture art director/set designer in Hollywood from 1937 thru 1942....

       – Bitter Sweet
      Bitter Sweet (1940 film)
      Bitter Sweet is a 1940 Technicolor American musical film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the operetta by Noel Coward and previously filmed in 1933; see Bitter Sweet . It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Cinematography and the other for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons and...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Down Argentine Way
      Down Argentine Way
      Down Argentine Way is a 1940 Technicolor musical film made by Twentieth Century Fox. It made a star of Betty Grable in her first leading role for the studio, and introduced American audiences to Carmen Miranda. The film also starred Don Ameche, The Nicholas Brothers, Charlotte Greenwood, and J....

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

       – North West Mounted Police
  • 1941 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

    , Nathan H. Juran, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

     – How Green Was My Valley
    How Green Was My Valley (film)
    How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...

    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...

      , Al Fields, Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Citizen Kane
      Citizen Kane
      Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...

    • Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York, New York.-Selected filmography:...

      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Flame of New Orleans
      The Flame of New Orleans
      The Flame of New Orleans is a 1941 comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Bruce Cabot in his first comedy role and Marlene Dietrich. It was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson and Russell A...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher
      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Hold Back the Dawn
      Hold Back the Dawn
      Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an American woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her...

    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

      , George Montgomery
      George Montgomery (set decorator)
      George Montgomery was an American set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Ladies in Retirement. He worked on 74 films between 1941 and 1951.-External links:...

       – Ladies in Retirement
      Ladies in Retirement
      Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....

    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Little Foxes
      The Little Foxes (film)
      The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name...

    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)
      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Sergeant York
      Sergeant York
      Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....

    • John DuCasse Schultze, Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

       – Son of Monte Cristo
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , Richard Irvine
      Richard Irvine
      Richard Irvine was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Sundown. He worked on 31 films between 1939 and 1953....

       – Sundown
      Sundown (film)
      Sundown is a 1941 war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Bruce Cabot and Gene Tierney. The film's adventure story, set against a war backdrop was well received by critics, earning three Academy Award nominations and was a box office success....

    • Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltán Korda. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once.He died in London, England...

      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron
      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – That Hamilton Woman
      That Hamilton Woman
      That Hamilton Woman, originally titled Lady Hamilton, is a 1941 black-and-white British historical film drama which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for Alexander Korda Films.-Production:...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell
      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925...

      , Edwin B. Willis – When Ladies Meet
      When Ladies Meet (1941 film)
      When Ladies Meet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers. The...

  • 1941 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Urie McCleary
    Urie McCleary
    Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

    , Edwin B. Willis – Blossoms in the Dust
    Blossoms in the Dust
    Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American film which tells the story of the non-fictional Edna Gladney who takes it upon herself to help orphaned children to find homes, despite the opposition of the "good" citizens who think that illegitimate children are beneath their interest...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

       – Blood and Sand
      Blood and Sand (1941 film)
      Blood and Sand is a Technicolor film produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova...

    • Raoul Pene Du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois was an American costume designer and scenic designer for the stage and film. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Career:...

      , Stephen A. Seymour – Louisiana Purchase
      Louisiana Purchase (film)
      Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 film adaptation of the musical theater play, Louisiana Purchase. A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play. Starring comedian Bob Hope, the film featured...

  • 1942 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

    , Joseph Wright, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

     – This Above All
    • Max Parker
      Max Parker
      Max Parker was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the film George Washington Slept Here. He worked on 86 films between 1916 and 1947....

      , Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 and 1959.-Selected filmography:...

      , Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Illinois and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – George Washington Slept Here
      George Washington Slept Here
      George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan. It was based on the 1940 play of the same name by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, adapted by Everett Freeman, and was directed by William Keighley...

    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Al Fields, Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Magnificent Ambersons
      The Magnificent Ambersons (film)
      The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins...

    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Pride of the Yankees
      The Pride of the Yankees
      The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell
      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore – Random Harvest
    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

       – The Shanghai Gesture
      The Shanghai Gesture
      The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American United Artists film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson....

    • Ralph Berger
      Ralph Berger
      Ralph Berger was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Silver Queen.He was born and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

       – Silver Queen
      Silver Queen
      Silver Queen is a 1942 Western film directed by Lloyd Bacon.-Cast:* George Brent - James Kincaid* Priscilla Lane - Coralie Adams* Bruce Cabot - Gerald Forsythe* Lynne Overman - Hector Bailey* Eugene Pallette - Steve Adams...

    • John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 208 films between 1934 and 1968, including It's a Gift starring W.C...

      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Edward Ray Robinson – The Spoilers
      The Spoilers (1942 film)
      The Spoilers is a 1942 film directed by Ray Enright. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the Nome Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister, and culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Take a Letter, Darling
      Take a Letter, Darling
      Take a Letter, Darling is a 1942 comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Best Cinematography, Best Score and Best Art Direction .-Cast:* Rosalind Russell - A.M...

    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

      , Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was a frequent collaborator of producer-director Stanley Kramer, working with him on virtually all of the films that Kramer directed, and many famous ones that he only...

      , Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession. She earned an Oscar nomination for 1942's The Talk of the Town and 1944's Cover Girl. Her other credits include My Sister Eileen , Love Me Tender and the TV series Maverick.-External...

       – The Talk of the Town
  • 1942 Color Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

    , Joseph Wright, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

     – My Gal Sal
    My Gal Sal
    My Gal Sal is a 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer, Sally Elliot. The story it was based on was written by Paul Dresser's brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Arabian Nights
      Arabian Nights (1942 film)
      Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories...

    • Ted Smith
      Ted Smith (art director)
      Ted Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Smith was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Captains of the Clouds...

      , Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Illinois and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – Captains of the Clouds
      Captains of the Clouds
      Captains of the Clouds is a 1942 Warner Bros. war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney , with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was written by Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay and Norman Reilly Raine,...

    • Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltán Korda. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once.He died in London, England...

      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron
      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Jungle Book
      Jungle Book (1942 film)
      Jungle Book is a 1942 American color action-adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zoltán Korda based on a screenplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings. The cinematography was by Lee Garmes and W. Howard Greene and music by Miklós Rózsa...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , George Sawley
      George Sawley
      George Sawley was an American set decorator and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Kansas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – Reap the Wild Wind
      Reap the Wild Wind
      Reap the Wild Wind is a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post, which was the basis for the 1942 film starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, his second picture to be filmed in...

  • 1943 Black-and-White James Basevi
    James Basevi
    James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert....

    , William S. Darling
    William S. Darling
    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

     – The Song of Bernadette
    The Song of Bernadette (film)
    The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King....

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté
      Ernst Fegté was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Bertram Granger – Five Graves to Cairo
      Five Graves to Cairo
      Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. It is one of a number of films based on Lajos Biró's play Színmü négy felvonásban, including Hotel Imperial .-Plot:...

    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Harley Miller
      Harley Miller
      Harley Miller was an American set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Flight for Freedom.-External links:...

       – Flight for Freedom
      Flight for Freedom
      Flight for Freedom is a 1943 drama film directed by Lothar Mendes. Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart life story concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight.The film's ending...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Madame Curie
      Madame Curie (film)
      Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley , adapted from the biography by Eve Curie....

    • Carl Weyl, George J. Hopkins – Mission to Moscow
      Mission to Moscow
      Mission to Moscow is a book by the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies published by Simon and Schuster in 1941. It was adapted into a film directed by Michael Curtiz in 1943....

    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The North Star
      The North Star (1943 film)
      The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim...

  • 1943 Color Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

    , John B. Goodman
    John B. Goodman
    John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 208 films between 1934 and 1968, including It's a Gift starring W.C...

    , Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Ira S. Webb
    Ira S. Webb
    Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
    Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward....

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Haldane Douglas
      Haldane Douglas
      Haldane Douglas was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film For Whom the Bell Tolls....

      , Bertram Granger – For Whom the Bell Tolls
      For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)
      For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film...

    • James Basevi
      James Basevi
      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert....

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

       – The Gang's All Here
    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)
      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , George J. Hopkins – This Is the Army
      This Is the Army
      This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Sgt. Ezra Stone...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Daniel Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Jacques Mersereau
      Jacques Mersereau
      Jacques Mersereau was a set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Thousands Cheer.-External links:...

       – Thousands Cheer
      Thousands Cheer
      Thousands Cheer is a 1943 American comedy musical film released by MGM. Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families.-Plot:The film is essentially a two-part program...

  • 1944 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , William Ferrari
    William Ferrari
    William Ferrari was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Paul Huldschinsky
    Paul Huldschinsky
    Paul Huldschinsky was a German-Jewish architect and set decorator. After imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 he fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for California. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Gaslight.-External links:...

    , Edwin B. Willis – Gaslight
    Gaslight (1944 film)
    Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play, Gas Light, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in the United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier...

    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

      , Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Holscher was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Address Unknown
      Address Unknown (1944 film)
      Address Unknown is a drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies based on Kathrine Taylor's novel Address Unknown . The film tells the story of two families caught up in the rise of Nazism in Germany prior to the start of World War II....

    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)
      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Adventures of Mark Twain
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron
      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Casanova Brown
      Casanova Brown
      Casanova Brown is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. Written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards: for Best Score , Best Sound, Recording Casanova...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

       – Laura
      Laura (1944 film)
      Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary....

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher
      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

       – No Time for Love
      No Time for Love (film)
      No Time for Love is a 1943 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White . Robert Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a 'family brother' at New...

    • Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 and 1959.-Selected filmography:...

      , Victor A. Gangelin
      Victor A. Gangelin
      Victor A. Gangelin was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – Since You Went Away
      Since You Went Away
      Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret...

    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Claude Carpenter – Step Lively
      Step Lively (1944 film)
      Step Lively is a 1944 musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. Step Lively was based on the play Room Service, by Allen Boretz and John Murray.-Cast:* Frank Sinatra - Glenn Russell* George Murphy - Gordon Miller...

  • 1944 Color Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard B. "Bill" Ihnen was an American art director.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an architect, he first studied his father's craft at Columbia University...

    , Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

     – Wilson
    Wilson (film)
    Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.The movie was written by Lamar Trotti and directed by Henry King...

    • John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 208 films between 1934 and 1968, including It's a Gift starring W.C...

      , Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Climax
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks
      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...

      , Cary Odell
      Cary Odell
      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession. She earned an Oscar nomination for 1942's The Talk of the Town and 1944's Cover Girl. Her other credits include My Sister Eileen , Love Me Tender and the TV series Maverick.-External...

       – Cover Girl
      Cover Girl (1944 film)
      Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she is offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl...

    • Charles Novi
      Charles Novi
      Charles Novi was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Desert Song.-External links:...

      , Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:McConaghy was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Desert Song...

       – The Desert Song
      The Desert Song (1943 film)
      The Desert Song is a 1943 epic musical film. It was directed by Robert Florey and starred Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning and Bruce Cabot. It is based on the 1926 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Daniel B. Cathcart
      Daniel B. Cathcart
      Daniel B. Cathcart was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Idaho and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Pefferle was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Kismet
      Kismet (1944 film)
      Kismet is a 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous Grand Vizier...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Raoul Pene du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois was an American costume designer and scenic designer for the stage and film. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Career:...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Lady in the Dark
      Lady in the Dark (film)
      Lady in the Dark is a 1944 Technicolor musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; for Best Cinematography, Best Music and Best Art Direction ....

    • Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté
      Ernst Fegté was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Princess and the Pirate
      The Princess and the Pirate
      The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 American comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope.-Plot:...

  • 1945 Black-and-White Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard B. "Bill" Ihnen was an American art director.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an architect, he first studied his father's craft at Columbia University...

    , A. Roland Fields
    A. Roland Fields
    A. Roland Fields was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 39 films between 1942 and 1951.-Selected filmography:...

     – Blood on the Sun
    Blood on the Sun
    Blood on the Sun is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on the history behind the Tanaka Memorial document....

    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Claude Carpenter – Experiment Perilous
      Experiment Perilous
      Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art...

    • James Basevi
      James Basevi
      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert....

      , William S. Darling
      William S. Darling
      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Frank E. Hughes
      Frank E. Hughes
      Frank E. Hughes was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hughes won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won...

       – The Keys of the Kingdom
      The Keys of the Kingdom (film)
      The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 American film based on the 1941 novel, The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin. The movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson, directed by John M. Stahl and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It stars Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Edmund...

    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Love Letters
      Love Letters (1945 film)
      Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar
      John Bonar
      John Bonar was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Picture of Dorian Gray.-Selected filmography:* The Picture of Dorian Gray -External links:...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Picture of Dorian Gray
      The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)
      The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray...

  • 1945 Color Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

    , Ernst Fegte
    Ernst Fegté
    Ernst Fegté was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California....

    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer
    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

     – Frenchman's Creek
    Frenchman's Creek (film)
    Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel , released by Paramount Pictures. The film starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. Filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and died in San Diego, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

       – Leave Her to Heaven
      Leave Her to Heaven
      Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths
      Mildred Griffiths
      Mildred Griffiths was an American set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film National Velvet.-External links:...

       – National Velvet
      National Velvet (film)
      National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....

    • Ted Smith
      Ted Smith (art director)
      Ted Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Smith was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Captains of the Clouds...

      , Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:McConaghy was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Desert Song...

       – San Antonio
      San Antonio (film)
      San Antonio is a 1945 western Technicolor film starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith. The movie was written by W. R. Burnett and Alan Le May, and directed by David Butler as well as uncredited Robert Florey and Raoul Walsh....

    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...

      , Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was a frequent collaborator of producer-director Stanley Kramer, working with him on virtually all of the films that Kramer directed, and many famous ones that he only...

      , Frank Tuttle
      Frank Tuttle (set decorator)
      Frank Tuttle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Tuttle was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – A Thousand and One Nights
      A Thousand and One Nights (film)
      A Thousand and One Nights is a tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Baghdad of the One Thousand and One Nights, starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jergens as the princess Aladdin...

  • 1946 Black-and-White William S. Darling
    William S. Darling
    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He was born as Wilhelm Sándorházi. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little
    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

    , Frank E. Hughes
    Frank E. Hughes
    Frank E. Hughes was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hughes won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won...

     – Anna and the King of Siam
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

      , Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Kitty
      Kitty (1945 film)
      Kitty is a 1945 film, a fictional costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall , with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Nathan H. Juran, Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – The Razor's Edge
      The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
      The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester. Marshall plays Somerset Maugham....

  • 1946 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

    , Edwin B. Willis – The Yearling
    • John Bryan
      John Bryan (art director)
      John Bryan was an art director and film producer.John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1964...

       – Caesar and Cleopatra
      Caesar and Cleopatra (1945 film)
      Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British, Technicolor, biographical, romantic comedy film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. It was adapted from a 1901 play, Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw...

    • Paul Sheriff
      Paul Sheriff
      Paul Sheriff was Russian-born British art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Carmen Dillon – Henry V
      Henry V (1944 film)
      Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The on-screen title is The Cronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France . It stars Laurence Olivier, who also directed. The play was adapted for the screen by Olivier, Dallas...


Beginning with 1947 films the name of the award was changed to Art Direction – Set Decoration.
  • 1947 Black-and-White John Bryan
    John Bryan (art director)
    John Bryan was an art director and film producer.John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1964...

    , Wilfred Shingleton
    Wilfred Shingleton
    Wilfred Shingleton was an English art director. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the British film industry from his debut in 1937...

     – Great Expectations
    Great Expectations (1946 film)
    Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three others...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and died in San Diego, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – The Foxes of Harrow
      The Foxes of Harrow
      The Foxes of Harrow is an adventure film directed by John M. Stahl and produced by William A. Bacher. The film Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn with Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, and Hugo Haas...

  • 1947 Color Alfred Junge
    Alfred Junge
    Alfred Junge was a German-born production designer.Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years...

     – Black Narcissus
    Black Narcissus
    Black Narcissus is a 1947 film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden...

    • Robert M. Haas
      Robert M. Haas
      Robert M. Haas was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , George James Hopkins – Life with Father
      Life with Father (film)
      Life with Father is a 1947 American comedy film. It tells the true story of Clarence Day, a stockbroker who wants to be master of his house, but finds his wife and his children ignoring him, until they start making demands for him to change his own life. In keeping with the autobiography, all the...

  • 1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse
    Roger K. Furse
    Roger Kemble Furse was an English art director and costume designer of stage and film.-Career:The son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse, Roger Furse was educated at Eton and the Slade School of Fine Arts....

    , Carmen Dillon – Hamlet
    Hamlet (1948 film)
    Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed...

    • Robert Haas, William O. Wallace
      William O. Wallace
      William Wallace was a set decorator who worked throughout the 1940s and 1950s in multiple Hollywood productions. He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn , Battle Cry and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956...

       – Johnny Belinda
      Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
      Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film based on the play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and directed by Jean Negulesco....

  • 1948 Color Hein Heckroth
    Hein Heckroth
    German art director Hein Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet...

    , Arthur Lawson – The Red Shoes
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Joan of Arc
      Joan of Arc (1948 film)
      Joan of Arc is a 1948 Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine, which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the...

  • 1949 Black-and-White Harry Horner, John Meehan
    John Meehan
    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California...

    , Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

     – The Heiress
    The Heiress
    The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle – Madame Bovary
      Madame Bovary (1949 film)
      Madame Bovary is a 1949 film adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin , Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper....

  • 1949 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

    , Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
    Jack D. Moore
    Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Little Women
    Little Women (1949 film)
    Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, and Andrew Solt...

    • Edward Carrere, Lyle Reifsnider
      Lyle Reifsnider
      Leif B. Reifsnider was a set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962. Nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan in 1949, he was also responsible for the set dressings on films such as My Wild Irish Rose , The Flame and the...

       – Adventures of Don Juan
      Adventures of Don Juan
      Adventures of Don Juan, known in the United Kingdom as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 adventure Technicolor romance film made by Warner Bros...

    • Jim Morahan
      Jim Morahan
      Jim Morahan was a British art director. He began his career in film in 1936. He worked in a number of prominent British productions in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Scott of the Antarctic , Whisky Galore! , The Blue Lamp , The Man in the White Suit , The Cruel Sea , The...

      , William Kellner
      William Kellner
      William Kellner was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going! and on David Lean's Brief...

      , Michael Relph
      Michael Relph
      Michael Relph was a British art director and producer. He was the son of actor George Relph....

       – Saraband for Dead Lovers
      Saraband for Dead Lovers
      Saraband for Dead Lovers is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson...


1950s

  • 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

    , John Meehan
    John Meehan
    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California...

    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer
    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

     – Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard (film)
    Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett...

    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

       – All About Eve
      All About Eve
      All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Red Danube
      The Red Danube
      The Red Danube is a 1949 drama film directed by George Sidney and starring Walter Pidgeon. The film was based on the 1947 novel Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall.-Plot:Shortly after World War II, British Col...

  • 1950 Color Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....

    , Walter Tyler
    Walter H. Tyler
    Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer
    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

     – Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
    Samson and Delilah is a 1949 film made by Paramount Pictures , produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle – Annie Get Your Gun
      Annie Get Your Gun (film)
      Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney...

    • Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté
      Ernst Fegté was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , George Sawley
      George Sawley
      George Sawley was an American set decorator and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Kansas and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

       – Destination Moon
      Destination Moon (film)
      Destination Moon is an American science fiction feature film produced by George Pal, who later produced When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine. Pal commissioned the script by James O'Hanlon and Rip Van Ronkel...

  • 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

    , George James Hopkins – A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Fred J. Rode
      Fred J. Rode
      Fred J. Rode was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Fourteen Hours.-External links:...

       – Fourteen Hours
      Fourteen Hours
      Fourteen Hours is a 1951 drama film directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the fifteenth floor of a hotel....

    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – House on Telegraph Hill
    • Jean d'Eaubonne
      Jean d'Eaubonne
      Jean d'Eaubonne was a French art director. Over the course of his career he worked with some of his country's most distinguished directors, including Jean Cocteau on such productions as "Le Sang d'un Poete" . D'Eaubonne was formally trained to be a painter and a sculptor...

       – La Ronde
      La Ronde (1950 film)
      La Ronde is a 1950 film directed by Max Ophüls and based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play of the same name. The title means "the round-dance".The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Writing and Best Art Direction...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Too Young to Kiss
      Too Young to Kiss
      Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring June Allyson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring June Allyson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for...

  • 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

    , Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason – An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (film)
    An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner...

    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – David and Bathsheba
      David and Bathsheba
      David and Bathsheba is a 1951 historical Technicolor epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Philip Dunne. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Leon Shamroy...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

       – On the Riviera
      On the Riviera
      On the Riviera is a 1951 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, with dance sequences choreographed and...

    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning
      William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

      , Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Quo Vadis
      Quo Vadis (1951 film)
      Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's classic 1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography...

    • Hein Heckroth
      Hein Heckroth
      German art director Hein Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet...

       – The Tales of Hoffmann
      The Tales of Hoffmann (film)
      The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, The Archers...

  • 1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

    , Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason – The Bad and the Beautiful
    The Bad and the Beautiful
    The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 MGM melodramatic film that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It was directed by Vincente Minelli and stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. The film was...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

       – Carrie
      Carrie (1952 film)
      Carrie is a 1952 feature film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood. Carrie received two Academy Award Nominations: Costume Design, and Best Art Direction...

    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

       – My Cousin Rachel
    • So Matsuyama
      So Matsuyama
      , a.k.a. So Matsuda and So Matsuyama, was a Japanese production designer and art director. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: the first time for his work in Rashomon , and the second time for his work in Seven Samurai .-External links:...

      , H. Motsumoto
      H. Motsumoto
      is a Japanese set decorator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction along with So Matsuyama for their work in Rashomon .-External links:...

       – Rashōmon
      Rashomon (film)
      The bandit's storyTajōmaru, a notorious brigand , claims that he tricked the samurai to step off the mountain trail with him and look at a cache of ancient swords he discovered. In the grove he tied the samurai to a tree, then brought the woman there. She initially tried to defend herself with a...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Claude Carpenter – Viva Zapata!
      Viva Zapata!
      Viva Zapata! is a 1952 fictional-biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film...

  • 1952 Color Paul Sheriff
    Paul Sheriff
    Paul Sheriff was Russian-born British art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Marcel Vertes
    Marcel Vertès
    Marcel Vertès was a Hungarian costume designer. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge....

     – Moulin Rouge
    Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
    Moulin Rouge is a 1952 film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists. The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the city's bohemian sub-culture in and around the...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Antoni Clavé
      Antoni Clavé
      Antoni Clavé was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.Clavé was one of Spain's best known and most celebrated artists...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Hans Christian Andersen
      Hans Christian Andersen (film)
      Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. The story was by Myles Connolly, its screenplay was by Moss Hart and Ben Hecht , and was produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

       – The Merry Widow
      The Merry Widow (1952 film)
      The Merry Widow is a 1952 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It starred Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas.The film received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color and Best Costume Design, Color...

    • Frank Hotaling
      Frank Hotaling
      Frank Hotaling was an American art director, born in New York City, whose career encompassed over 100 films, mostly B movies. His association with famed director John Ford led to an Oscar nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Jr. and Charles S. Thompson, for Best Art Direction-Set Direction,...

      , John McCarthy, Jr.
      John McCarthy, Jr.
      John McCarthy, Jr is a set decorator with an extensive filmography of over 600 films that began in 1935, when he dressed the set for His Fighting Blood....

      , Charles S. Thompson
      Charles S. Thompson
      Charles S. Thompson was Hollywood set decorator, with nearly 200 films to his credit in a career that lasted 30 years. He cut his teeth on a string of B movies in the early 40s, before breaking into John Ford's inner circle of regulars. Amongst his credits for the director were Rio Grande and The...

       – The Quiet Man
      The Quiet Man
      The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh...

    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  • 1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

    , Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar (1953 film)
    Julius Caesar is an 1953 MGM film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman. The original music score is by Miklós Rózsa...

    • Fritz Maurischat
      Fritz Maurischat
      Fritz Maurischat was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany....

      , Paul Markwitz
      Paul Markwitz
      Paul Markwitz was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He worked on over 50 films between 1935 and 1967. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Martin Luther.-External links:...

       – Martin Luther
      Martin Luther (1953 film)
      Martin Luther is a 1953 film biography of Martin Luther. It was directed by Irving Pichel, , and stars Niall MacGinnis as Luther. It was produced by Louis de Rochemont and RD-DR Corporation in collaboration with Lutheran Church Productions and Luther-Film-G.M.B.H.The National Board of Review named...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – The President's Lady
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

       – Roman Holiday
    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and died in San Diego, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Stuart Reiss – Titanic
      Titanic (1953 film)
      Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot centers on an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the , which took place in April 1912.-Plot:...

  • 1953 Color Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
    George Davis (art director)
    -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

     – The Robe
    The Robe (film)
    The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.It was directed by Henry Koster...

    • Alfred Junge
      Alfred Junge
      Alfred Junge was a German-born production designer.Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      . John Jarvis
      John Jarvis (set decorator)
      John Jarvis was a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Knights of the Round Table.-Selected filmography:* Knights of the Round Table -External links:...

       – Knights of the Round Table
      Knights of the Round Table (film)
      Knights of the Round Table is a 1953 Technicolor Cinemascope historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

       – Lili
      Lili
      Lili is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Gabriel Scognamillo
      Gabriel Scognamillo
      Gabriel Scognamillo was an Italian art director. One of the first films he worked on was Jean Renoir's provocative 1931 film "La Chienne"...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

      , Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Story of Three Loves
      The Story of Three Loves
      The Story of Three Loves, also known as Equilibrium, is a 1953 romantic anthology film made by MGM. It consists of three stories, "The Jealous Lover", "Mademoiselle", and "Equilibrium". The film was produced by Sidney Franklin. "Mademoiselle" was directed by Vincente Minnelli, while Gottfried...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Young Bess
      Young Bess
      Young Bess is a 1953 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the early life of Elizabeth I, from her turbulent childhood to the eve of her accession to the throne of England...

  • 1954 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)
    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

     – On the Waterfront
    On the Waterfront
    On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory was an American set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gregory was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Country Girl...

       – The Country Girl
      The Country Girl (1954 film)
      The Country Girl is a 1954 drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. It stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden. Seaton,...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

       – Executive Suite
      Executive Suite
      Executive Suite is a 1954 MGM drama film depicting the transfer of power in a corporation in trouble. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, and Walter Pidgeon. It was directed by Robert Wise and produced by John Houseman from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on the...

    • Max Ophüls
      Max Ophüls
      Maximillian Oppenheimer — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany , France , the United States , and France again...

       – Le Plaisir
      Le Plaisir
      Le Plaisir , also known as House of Pleasure, is a French comedy-drama anthology film directed by Max Ophüls adapting three stories by Guy de Maupassant...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Sabrina
      Sabrina (1954 film)
      Sabrina is a 1954 comedy-romance film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair...

  • 1954 Color John Meehan
    John Meehan
    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California...

    , Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

     – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions, as well as the only science-fiction...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason – Brigadoon
      Brigadoon (film)
      Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – Désirée
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Red Garters
      Red Garters (film)
      Red Garters is a 1954 film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It was a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall....

    • Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen
      Gene Allen
      Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Allen went to art school to pursue his career...

      , Irene Sharaff
      Irene Sharaff
      Irene Sharaff was an American costume designer for stage and screen. Her work earned her five Academy Awards and a Tony Award.- Background :...

      , George James Hopkins – A Star Is Born
      A Star Is Born (1954 film)
      A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell...

  • 1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira
    Hal Pereira
    Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

    , Tambi Larsen
    Tambi Larsen
    Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows...

    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer
    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Arthur Krams
    Arthur Krams
    Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

     – The Rose Tattoo
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell
      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

       – Blackboard Jungle
      Blackboard Jungle
      Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter.-Plot:...

    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Malcolm Brown
      Malcolm Brown (art director)
      Malcolm Brown was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt – I'll Cry Tomorrow
      I'll Cry Tomorrow
      I'll Cry Tomorrow is a biopic which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fiancé by becoming an alcoholic...

    • Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Man with the Golden Arm
      The Man with the Golden Arm
      The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a heroin addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. It stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold...

    • Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley
      Robert Priestley
      Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Marty
      Marty (film)
      Marty is a 1955 American film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. The film enjoyed international success, winning the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture and...

  • 1955 Color William Flannery
    William Flannery
    William Flannery was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Picnic.-External links:...

    , Jo Mielziner
    Jo Mielziner
    Joseph "Jo" Mielziner was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He is "the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway", and worked on both stage plays and musicals.-Career:He was the son of artist Leo Mielziner, Sr...

    , Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Picnic
    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – Daddy Long Legs
    • Oliver Smith
      Oliver Smith (designer)
      Oliver Smith was an American scenic designer.Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Carson McCullers, and Agnes de...

      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Guys and Dolls
      Guys and Dolls (film)
      Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and distributed by MGM. It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay...

    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Jack Stubbs
      Jack Stubbs
      Jack Stubbs was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.-Selected filmography:* Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing -External links:...

       – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 American drama-romance film. Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter , who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China , only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson was a leading Hollywood art director born in Los Angeles.He was graduated from USC with a degree in architecture before attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was working for well-known architect Kem Weber when he was hired by David O. Selznick in 1938...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

       – To Catch a Thief
      To Catch a Thief (film)
      To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams. The movie is set on the French Riviera, and was based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge...

  • 1956 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

    , Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
    F. Keogh Gleason
    Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times.-External links:...

     – Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Somebody Up There Likes Me (film)
    Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 American drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography . The film also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956...

    • So Matsuyama
      So Matsuyama
      , a.k.a. So Matsuda and So Matsuyama, was a Japanese production designer and art director. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: the first time for his work in Rashomon , and the second time for his work in Seven Samurai .-External links:...

       – Seven Samurai
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , A. Earl Hedrick
      A. Earl Hedrick
      A. Earl Hedrick was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Proud and Profane.-External links:...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Proud and Profane
      The Proud and Profane
      The Proud and Profane is a 1956 dramatic war romance made by William Perlberg-George Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the novel The Magnificent Bastards by Lucy Herndon...

    • Ross Bellah
      Ross Bellah
      Ross Bellah was an American art director, primarily for Columbia Pictures. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Solid Gold Cadillac.-External links:...

      , William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
      Louis Diage
      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Diage was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Solid Gold Cadillac
      The Solid Gold Cadillac
      The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film directed by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway play of the same name by Teichmann and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen...

    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director....

      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Teenage Rebel
      Teenage Rebel
      Teenage Rebel is a 1956 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction Teenage Rebel is a 1956 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two...

  • 1956 Color Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director....

    , John DeCuir
    John DeCuir
    John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

     – The King and I
    The King and I (1956 film)
    The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, based in turn on the book Anna and the King...

    • James W. Sullivan
      James W. Sullivan
      James W. Sullivan was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Around the World in 80 Days.-Selected filmography:...

      , Ken Adam
      Ken Adam
      Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...

      , Ross J. Dowd – Around the World in 80 Days
      Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)
      Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson. It was produced by Michael Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James...

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

      , Ralph S. Hurst
      Ralph S. Hurst
      Ralph S. Hurst was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Giant.-External links:...

       – Giant
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
      F. Keogh Gleason
      Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times.-External links:...

       – Lust for Life
      Lust for Life (film)
      Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin.It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Albert Nozaki
      Albert Nozaki
      Albert Nozaki was an art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures. He is perhaps best known for his memorable design of the Martian war machines from the 1953 film The War of the Worlds and for his art direction on the epic The Ten Commandments...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – The Ten Commandments
      The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
      The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...


For 1957 films this award became a single award.
  • 1957 Ted Haworth
    Ted Haworth
    Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

    , Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Sayonara
    Sayonara
    Sayonara is a 1957 color American film starring Marlon Brando. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an "ace" fighter pilot during the Korean War....

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Funny Face
      Funny Face
      Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson...

    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning
      William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

      , Gene Allen
      Gene Allen
      Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Allen went to art school to pursue his career...

      , Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Pefferle was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Les Girls
      Les Girls
      Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 musical comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C...

    • Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Holscher was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan
      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Kiernan was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Louis Diage
      Louis Diage
      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Diage was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Pal Joey
      Pal Joey (film)
      Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novak's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin...

    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning
      William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Raintree County
      Raintree County (film)
      Raintree County is a 1957 Technicolor film drama about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin....

  • 1958 William A. Horning
    William A. Horning
    William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

     (posthumous award), E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

    , Henry Grace
    Henry Grace
    Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

    , F. Keogh Gleason
    F. Keogh Gleason
    Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times.-External links:...

     – Gigi
    Gigi (1958 film)
    Gigi is a 1958 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette...

    • Malcolm Bert, George James Hopkins – Auntie Mame
      Auntie Mame (film)
      Auntie Mame is a 1958 film based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta...

    • Cary Odell
      Cary Odell
      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Louis Diage
      Louis Diage
      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Diage was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Bell, Book and Candle
      Bell, Book and Candle
      Bell, Book and Candle is a romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine based on the hit Broadway play by John Van Druten. It starred James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing . The film, adapted by Daniel Taradash, was Stewart's last film as a romantic lead...

    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director....

      , John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

       – A Certain Smile
      A Certain Smile (film)
      A Certain Smile is a 1958 drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the book of the same name.-Cast:* Rossano Brazzi as Luc Ferrand* Joan Fontaine as Françoise Ferrand* Bradford Dillman as Bertrand Griot* Christine Carère as Dominique Vallon...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Henry Bumstead, Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Frank McKelvy – Vertigo
      Vertigo (film)
      Vertigo is a 1958 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A...


With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two
  • 1959 Black-and-White Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director....

    , George Davis
    George Davis (art director)
    -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , Stuart A. Reiss
    Stuart A. Reiss
    Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – The Diary of Anne Frank
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

      , – Career
      Career (1959 film)
      Career is a 1959 blacklist film drama co-written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Dean Martin, Tony Franciosa, and Shirley MacLaine. The movie involves actor Sam Lawson , bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the more recent blacklist, something...

    • Carl Anderson
      Carl Anderson (art director)
      Carl Anderson was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Anderson was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan
      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Kiernan was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Last Angry Man
      The Last Angry Man
      The Last Angry Man is a drama film which tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams , and Godfrey Cambridge....

    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

       – Some Like It Hot
      Some Like It Hot
      Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft. The supporting cast includes Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film is a remake by Wilder and I....

    • Oliver Messel
      Oliver Messel
      Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century....

      , William Kellner
      William Kellner
      William Kellner was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going! and on David Lean's Brief...

      , Scot Slimon – Suddenly, Last Summer
      Suddenly, Last Summer (film)
      Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 American Southern Gothic mystery film based on the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Sam Spiegel from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Williams. The music score was by Buxton Orr using themes by...

  • 1959 Color William A. Horning
    William A. Horning
    William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

     (posthumous award), Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

    , Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur (1959 film)
    Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...

    • John De Cuir, Julia Heron
      Julia Heron
      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Big Fisherman
      The Big Fisherman
      The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas...

    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director....

      , Franz Bachelin
      Franz Bachelin
      Franz Bachelin was a German art director. In 1946, he and Hans Dreier did the art direction for The Searching Wind...

      , Herman A. Blumenthal
      Herman A. Blumenthal
      Herman Allen Blumenthal was an American art director and production designer for films.He shared in two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, for his work on Cleopatra and Hello, Dolly! . He had previously been nominated for Journey to the Center of the Earth .-External links and references:...

      . Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – Journey to the Center of the Earth
      Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
      Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett from the novel by Jules Verne. It stars Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David and Alan Napier...

    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning
      William A. Horning was a multiple Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death....

       (posthumous nomination), Robert F. Boyle
      Robert F. Boyle
      Robert Francis Boyle was an American film art director and production designer.Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California . When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra...

      , Merrill Pye
      Merrill Pye
      Merrill Pye was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film North by Northwest.-External links:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Frank McKelvy – North by Northwest
      North by Northwest
      North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...

    • Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ruby R. Levitt
      Ruby R. Levitt
      Ruby R. Levitt was an American set decorator. She was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Levitt was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Richard H. Riedel
      Richard H. Riedel
      Richard H. Riedel was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Pillow Talk.-External links:...

       (posthumous nomination) – Pillow Talk

1960s

  • 1960 Black-and-White Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle
    Edward G. Boyle
    The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

     – The Apartment
    The Apartment
    The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow-up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and, like its predecessor, was a commercial and critical hit, grossing $25...

    • Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson was a leading Hollywood art director born in Los Angeles.He was graduated from USC with a degree in architecture before attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was working for well-known architect Kem Weber when he was hired by David O. Selznick in 1938...

      , Kenneth A. Reid
      Kenneth A. Reid
      Kenneth A. Reid was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Facts of Life.-External links:...

      , Ross Dowd
      Ross Dowd
      Ross Dowd was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Dowd was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Facts of Life
      The Facts of Life (film)
      The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people. Written, directed, and produced by the longtime Hope associates Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film was more serious than many other...

    • Joseph Hurley
      Joseph Hurley (art director)
      Joseph Hurley was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Psycho.-External links:...

      , Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , George Milo
      George Milo
      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Psycho
      Psycho (1960 film)
      Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...

    • Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch
      Lionel Couch
      Lionel Couch was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Couch was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Sons and Lovers
      Sons and Lovers (1960 film)
      Sons and Lovers is a British 1960 film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

       – Visit to a Small Planet
      Visit to a Small Planet
      Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 Paramount Pictures film starring Jerry Lewis, based on a play by Gore Vidal. It was released on February 4, 1960.-Plot:...

  • 1960 Color Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

    , Eric Orbom
    Eric Orbom
    Eric Orbom was an American art director. He won a posthumous Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Spartacus.-External links:...

     (posthumous award), Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Best Art Direction...

    , Julia Heron
    Julia Heron
    Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

     – Spartacus
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hehr was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Otto Siegel
      Otto Siegel
      Otto Siegel was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron.-External links:...

       – Cimarron
      Cimarron (1960 film)
      Cimarron is a 1960 western film based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, featuring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. It was directed by Anthony Mann, known for his westerns and film noirs....

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Arrigo Breschi
      Arrigo Breschi
      Arrigo Breschi was an Italian set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film It Started in Naples.-External links:...

       – It Started in Naples
      It Started in Naples
      It Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies...

    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan
      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Kiernan was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Pepe
      Pepe (film)
      Pepe is a 1960 film starring Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably Around the World in Eighty Days, produced by Mike Todd in 1956.The film failed to...

    • Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins – Sunrise at Campobello
      Sunrise at Campobello
      Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros. It tells the story of the initial struggle by future President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family when he was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August...

  • 1961 Black-and-White Harry Horner, Gene Callahan
    Gene Callahan (production designer)
    Gene Callahan was an American art director as well as set and production designer who contributed to over fifty films and more than a thousand TV episodes. He received nominations for the British Academy Film Award and four Oscars, including two wins .A native of Louisiana, Eugene F...

     – The Hustler
    The Hustler (film)
    The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film directed by Robert Rossen from the 1959 novel of the same name he and Sidney Carroll adapted for the screen...

    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

       – The Absent-Minded Professor
      The Absent-Minded Professor
      The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 black-and-white Walt Disney Productions film based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor....

    • Fernando Carrere
      Fernando Carrere
      Fernando Carrere was a Mexican art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Children's Hour.-External links:...

      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

       – The Children's Hour
      The Children's Hour (1961 film)
      The Children's Hour is a 1961 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman...

    • Rudolf Sternad, George Milo
      George Milo
      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Judgment at Nuremberg
      Judgment at Nuremberg
      Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American drama film dealing with the Holocaust and the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials. It was written by Abby Mann, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy...

    • Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and 8½ for which he won two Oscars....

       – La dolce vita
      La Dolce Vita
      La Dolce Vita is a 1960 comedy-drama film written and directed by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist's week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come...

  • 1961 Color Boris Leven
    Boris Leven
    Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

    , Victor A. Gangelin
    Victor A. Gangelin
    Victor A. Gangelin was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

     – West Side Story
    West Side Story (film)
    West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno,...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

       – Breakfast at Tiffany's
    • Veniero Colasanti
      Veniero Colasanti
      Veniero Colasanti was an Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film El Cid....

      , John Moore – El Cid
      El Cid (film)
      El Cid is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , Joseph Wright, Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Flower Drum Song
      Flower Drum Song (film)
      Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author C. Y...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams was an American set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s. Later, he went on to work with Paramount Pictures. While there, he shared an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo...

       – Summer and Smoke
      Summer and Smoke (film)
      Summer and Smoke is a 1961 film directed by Peter Glenville based on the Tennessee Williams play of the same name.The film starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman...

  • 1962 Black-and-White Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

    , Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert
    Oliver Emert
    Oliver Emert was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film To Kill a Mockingbird.-External links:...

     – To Kill a Mockingbird
    To Kill a Mockingbird (film)
    To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name directed by Robert Mulligan. It stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch....

    • Joseph Wright, George James Hopkins – Days of Wine and Roses
      Days of Wine and Roses (film)
      Days of Wine and Roses is a film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name....

    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Léon Barsacq
      Léon Barsacq
      Léon Barsacq was a Russian production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day.-External links:...

      , Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltán Korda. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once.He died in London, England...

      , Gabriel Bechir
      Gabriel Béchir
      Gabriel Béchir was a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day.-External links:...

       – The Longest Day
      The Longest Day (film)
      The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II....

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Dick Pefferle – Period of Adjustment
      Period of Adjustment (film)
      Period of Adjustment is a 1962 drama film directed by George Roy Hill. his first feature-length film, and based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.-Plot summary:...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Pigeon That Took Rome
      The Pigeon That Took Rome
      The Pigeon That Took Rome is a 1962 film directed and written by Melville Shavelson and starring Charlton Heston. The film was based upon the novel "The Easter Dinner", written by Donald Downes.-Plot:...

  • 1962 Color John Box
    John Box
    John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

    , John Stoll
    John Stoll
    John Stoll was a British art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Lawrence of Arabia.-External links:...

    , Dario Simoni
    Dario Simoni
    Dario Simoni was a set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Lawrence of Arabia
    Lawrence of Arabia (film)
    Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...

    • Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , George James Hopkins – The Music Man
      The Music Man (1962 film)
      The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , J. McMillan Johnson, Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Mutiny on the Bounty
      Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
      Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 film starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , George Milo
      George Milo
      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink is a 1962 romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent. In addition, baseball stars Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra make cameo appearances....

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Dick Pefferle – The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
      The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
      The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 American film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The latter was the producer and also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest grossing films of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional...

  • 1963 Black-and-White Gene Callahan – America America
    • Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and 8½ for which he won two Oscars....

       –
      8½ is a 1963 Italian fantasy film directed by Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Benton was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Hud
      Hud (film)
      Hud is a 1963 western film whose title character is an embittered and selfish modern-day cowboy. With screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By, it was directed by Martin Ritt and stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory was an American set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gregory was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Country Girl...

       – Love with the Proper Stranger
      Love with the Proper Stranger
      Love with the Proper Stranger is a 1963 romantic comedy drama film made by Pakula-Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Pakula from a screenplay by Arnold Schulman.The film stars Natalie Wood,...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Twilight of Honor
      Twilight of Honor
      Twilight of Honor is a 1963 film starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. Twilight of Honor is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by Henry Denker...

  • 1963 Color John DeCuir
    John DeCuir
    John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

    , Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

    , Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb
    Elven Webb
    Elven Webb was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won* Cleopatra...

    , Maurice Pelling
    Maurice Pelling
    Maurice Pelling was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cleopatra.-External links:...

    , Boris Juraga
    Boris Juraga
    Boris Juraga was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cleopatra.-External links:...

    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

     – Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)
    Cleopatra is a 1963 British-American-Swiss epic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy...

    • Lyle Wheeler, Gene Callahan – The Cardinal
      The Cardinal
      The Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B...

      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer
      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction...

      , James W. Payne
      James W. Payne
      James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Payne won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

       – Come Blow Your Horn
      Come Blow Your Horn (film)
      Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and based on the play of the same name.-Cast:* Frank Sinatra - Alan Baker* Lee J. Cobb - Harry R. Baker* Molly Picon - Mrs. Sophie Baker* Barbara Rush - Connie...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , William Ferrari
      William Ferrari
      William Ferrari was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (posthumous nomination), Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hehr was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Don Greenwood Jr., Jack Mills
      Jack Mills (art director)
      Jack Mills was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film How the West Was Won.-External links:...

       – How the West Was Won
      How the West Was Won (film)
      How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean...

    • Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall
      Ted Marshall
      Ted Marshall was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Tom Jones * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -External links:...

      , Jocelyn Herbert
      Jocelyn Herbert
      Jocelyn Herbert RDI was a highly influential British stage designer.-Early life:Born in London, she was the second of the four children of the playwright, novelist, humorist and parliamentarian A. P. Herbert . Through him she had contact with theatre people, artists and writers...

      , Josie MacAvin
      Josie MacAvin
      Josie MacAvin was an Irish set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated two more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Tom Jones
      Tom Jones (film)
      Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards...

  • 1964 Black-and-White Vassilis Fotopoulos – Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott was an English art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scott was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Benton was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day....

    • William Glasgow
      William Glasgow
      William Glasgow was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte.-External links:...

      , Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton is a French set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 American thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....

    • Stephen Grimes – The Night of the Iguana
      The Night of the Iguana (film)
      The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. It won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best...

    • Cary Odell
      Cary Odell
      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.-Selected filmography:...

      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

       – Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk...

  • 1964 Color Gene Allen
    Gene Allen
    Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Allen went to art school to pursue his career...

    , Cecil Beaton
    Cecil Beaton
    Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...

    , George James Hopkins – My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • John Bryan
      John Bryan (art director)
      John Bryan was an art director and film producer.John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1964...

      , Maurice Carter, Patrick McLoughlin, Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright was an art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cartwright was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Becket * Scrooge...

       – Becket
    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

      , William H. Tuntke
      William H. Tuntke
      William H. Tuntke was a art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Tuntke was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Mary Poppins...

      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

       – Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    • Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Margaret Dumont, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.-Plot:...

  • 1965 Black-and-White Robert Clatworthy
    Robert Clatworthy
    Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Joseph Kish
    Joseph Kish
    Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

     – Ship of Fools
    Ship of Fools (film)
    Ship of Fools is a 1965 film drama which tells the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933...

    • Robert Emmet Smith
      Robert Emmet Smith
      Robert Emmet Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for and Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film King Rat.-External links:...

      , Frank Tuttle
      Frank Tuttle (set decorator)
      Frank Tuttle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Tuttle was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – King Rat
      King Rat (1965 film)
      King Rat is a 1965 World War II film adapted from the James Clavell novel King Rat. The film was directed by Bryan Forbes and starred George Segal as Corporal King and James Fox as Marlow, two World War II prisoners of war in a squalid camp near Singapore...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Charles S. Thompson
      Charles S. Thompson
      Charles S. Thompson was Hollywood set decorator, with nearly 200 films to his credit in a career that lasted 30 years. He cut his teeth on a string of B movies in the early 40s, before breaking into John Ford's inner circle of regulars. Amongst his credits for the director were Rio Grande and The...

       – A Patch of Blue
      A Patch of Blue
      A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon , and a blind white female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Jack Poplin
      Jack Poplin
      Jack Poplin was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Slender Thread.-External links:...

      , Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Benton was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Slender Thread
      The Slender Thread
      The Slender Thread is a 1965 film starring Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier. It was the first feature length film directed by Academy Award-winning director, producer & actor Sydney Pollack....

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows...

      , Ted Marshall
      Ted Marshall
      Ted Marshall was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Tom Jones * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -External links:...

      , Josie MacAvin
      Josie MacAvin
      Josie MacAvin was an Irish set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated two more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
      The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)
      The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by John le Carré. It was adapted by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper. The film stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, along with Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Peter van Eyck, Sam Wanamaker, Rupert Davies and Cyril Cusack...

  • 1965 Color John Box
    John Box
    John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

    , Terence Marsh
    Terence Marsh
    Terence Marsh is a British production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Production Designer:* Rush Hour 2 * The Green Mile...

    , Dario Simoni
    Dario Simoni
    Dario Simoni was a set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Doctor Zhivago
    • John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Dario Simoni
      Dario Simoni
      Dario Simoni was a set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Agony and the Ecstasy
      The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
      The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 film directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. The film was partly based on Irving Stone's biographical novel of the same name. This film deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II...

    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , William Creber, David S. Hall
      David S. Hall
      David S. Hall was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Hall was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       (posthumous nomination), Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Angeles, California....

      , Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

      , Norman Rockett
      Norman Rockett
      Norman Rockett was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Rockett was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Greatest Story Ever Told
      The Greatest Story Ever Told
      The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens and distributed by United Artists. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection. This film is notable for its large ensemble cast and for being the last...

    • Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , George James Hopkins – Inside Daisy Clover
      Inside Daisy Clover
      Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 American drama film based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon in her Academy Award nominated role.- Plot :...

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Ruby Levitt – The Sound of Music
      The Sound of Music (film)
      Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...

  • 1966 Black-and-White Richard Sylbert
    Richard Sylbert
    Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

    , George James Hopkins – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee...

    • Robert Luthardt
      Robert Luthardt
      Robert Luthardt was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Fortune Cookie.-External links:...

      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

       – The Fortune Cookie
      The Fortune Cookie
      The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on-screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder.- Plot :...

    • Luigi Scaccianoce – The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
      The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
      The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection....

    • Willy Holt
      Willy Holt
      Willy Holt was an American production designer and art director, who lived in France for many years and worked extensively for the French film industry...

      , Marc Frederix
      Marc Frédérix
      Marc Frédérix was a French art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Is Paris Burning?-External links:...

      , Pierre Guffroy
      Pierre Guffroy
      Pierre Guffroy was a French production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award for Tess in 1979 and had been previously nominated for one in another category Best Art Direction for Is Paris Burning? in 1966....

       – Is Paris Burning?
      Is Paris Burning?
      Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces.-Plot:...

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Mister Buddwing
      Mister Buddwing
      Mister Buddwing is a 1966 American film drama starring James Garner, directed by Delbert Mann.It is the story of a well-dressed man who finds himself on a bench in Central Park with no idea of who he is...

  • 1966 Color Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

    , Dale Hennesy
    Dale Hennesy
    Dale Hennesy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , Stuart A. Reiss
    Stuart A. Reiss
    Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it....

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , George C. Webb
      George C. Webb
      George C. Webb was an American art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gambit...

      , John McCarthy, Jr.
      John McCarthy, Jr.
      John McCarthy, Jr is a set decorator with an extensive filmography of over 600 films that began in 1935, when he dressed the set for His Fighting Blood....

      , John Austin – Gambit
      Gambit (1966 film)
      Gambit is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine as two criminals involved in an elaborate plot centered on a priceless antiquity from millionaire Mr. Shahbandar, played by Herbert Lom...

    • Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and 8½ for which he won two Oscars....

       – Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)
      Juliet of the Spirits
      Juliet of the Spirits is a 1965 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini that uses "caricatural types and dream situations to represent a psychic landscape"...

    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer....

      , Arthur Lonergan
      Arthur Lonergan
      Arthur Lonergan was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Oscar. He also was the art director for the films Forbidden Planet, Yours, Mine and Ours and M*A*S*H.-External links:...

      , Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Benton was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , James W. Payne
      James W. Payne
      James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Payne won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

       – The Oscar
      The Oscar (film)
      The Oscar is a 1966 American drama film, written by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse and Richard Sale, directed by Rouse and starring Stephen Boyd, singer Tony Bennett , comedian Milton Berle , Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John, and Eleanor Parker...

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , John Sturtevant
      John Sturtevant
      John Sturtevant was an English set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Sand Pebbles.-External links:...

      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan
      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Kiernan was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Sand Pebbles
      The Sand Pebbles (film)
      The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate aboard the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo in 1920s China....


For 1967 the two awards in this category were recombined into a single award.
  • 1967 John Truscott
    John Truscott
    John Truscott was an Australian actor, production designer and costume designer. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1967 film Camelot....

    , Edward Carrere, John W. Brown
    John W. Brown (set decorator)
    John W. Brown was a set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Camelot.-External links:...

     – Camelot
    Camelot (film)
    Camelot is a 1967 film adaptation of the musical of the same name. Richard Harris stars as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was directed by Joshua Logan.-Plot:...

    • Mario Chiari
      Mario Chiari
      Mario Chiari was an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Doctor Dolittle.-Selected filmography:...

      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Ed Graves
      Ed Graves
      Ed Graves was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Doctor Dolittle.-External links:...

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Doctor Dolittle
      Doctor Dolittle (film)
      Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 American musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It's adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting, primarily The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor...

    • Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Frank Tuttle
      Frank Tuttle (set decorator)
      Frank Tuttle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Tuttle was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
      Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
      Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton...

    • Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir
      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

      , Elven Webb
      Elven Webb
      Elven Webb was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won* Cleopatra...

      , Giuseppe Mariani
      Giuseppe Mariani
      Giuseppe Mariani was an Italian art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Taming of the Shrew.-Selected filmography:* The Taming of the Shrew -External links:...

      , Dario Simoni
      Dario Simoni
      Dario Simoni was a set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Luigi Gervasi
      Luigi Gervasi
      Luigi Gervasi was an Italian set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Taming of the Shrew.-Selected filmography:* The Taming of the Shrew -External links:...

       – The Taming of the Shrew
      The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)
      The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , George C. Webb
      George C. Webb
      George C. Webb was an American art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gambit...

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Thoroughly Modern Millie
      Thoroughly Modern Millie
      Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

  • 1968 John Box
    John Box
    John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

    , Terence Marsh
    Terence Marsh
    Terence Marsh is a British production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Production Designer:* Rush Hour 2 * The Green Mile...

    , Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon was a British set decorator. He won three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Dixon won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Oliver! * Nicholas and Alexandra...

    , Ken Muggleston
    Ken Muggleston
    Ken Muggleston was a British set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Oliver!.-External links:...

     – Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)
    Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....

    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

       – The Shoes of the Fisherman
      The Shoes of the Fisherman
      The Shoes of the Fisherman is a 1963 novel by the Australian author Morris West, as well as a 1968 film based on the novel.The book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the #1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year, according...

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 and 1968.-Selected filmography:Bristol was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Star!
      Star! (film)
      Star! is a 1968 American musical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.-Plot:...

    • Anthony Masters
      Anthony Masters
      Anthony Masters was a British production designer and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey....

      , Harry Lange
      Harry Lange (film designer)
      Hans Kurt Lange was a German film production designer and art director.Lange was born in 1930 in Eisenach, Thuringia. After World War II, Thuringia became part of Soviet-controlled East Germany; Lange escaped across the border to West Germany, where he studied art before moving to the United...

      , Ernie Archer – 2001: A Space Odyssey
      2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
      2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...

    • Mikhail Bogdanov
      Mikhail Bogdanov (production designer)
      Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was a Soviet production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the epic film War and Peace .-External links:*...

      , Gennady Myasnikov
      Gennady Myasnikov
      Gennady Myasnikov was a Soviet production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the epic film War and Peace .-External links:*...

      , Georgi Koshelev
      Georgi Koshelev
      Georgi Koshelev was a Soviet production designer and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the epic film War and Peace .-External links:...

      , Vladimir Uvarov – War and Peace (Война и мир)
      War and Peace (1968 film)
      War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and also acted in the lead role of Pierre. It was produced over a seven year period and released in four parts between 1965 and...

  • 1969 John Decuir
    John DeCuir
    John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...

    , Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

    , Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

    , George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton
    Raphael Bretton
    Raphael Bretton is a French set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Hello, Dolly!
    • Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch
      Lionel Couch
      Lionel Couch was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Couch was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Patrick McLoughlin – Anne of the Thousand Days
      Anne of the Thousand Days
      Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn...

    • Robert F. Boyle
      Robert F. Boyle
      Robert Francis Boyle was an American film art director and production designer.Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California . When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra...

      , George B. Chan
      George B. Chan
      George B. Chan was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Gaily, Gaily.-External links:...

      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

      , Carl Biddiscombe
      Carl Biddiscombe
      Carl Biddiscombe was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Biddiscombe was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gaily, Gaily...

       – Gaily, Gaily
      Gaily, Gaily
      Gaily, Gaily is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on the Autobiographical novel by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, and George Kennedy....

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , George C. Webb
      George C. Webb
      George C. Webb was an American art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gambit...

      , Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Sweet Charity
      Sweet Charity (film)
      Sweet Charity, full title of which is Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved, is a 1969 American musical film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and with music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields...

    • Harry Horner, Frank McKelvy – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970s

  • 1970 Urie McCleary
    Urie McCleary
    Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Arkansas and died in Los Angeles, California....

    , Gil Parrondo
    Gil Parrondo
    Gil Parrondo is a Spanish art director, set decorator and production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Antonio Mateos
    Antonio Mateos
    Antonio Mateos is a set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Patton.-External links:...

    , Pierre-Louis Thevenet
    Pierre-Louis Thévenet
    Pierre-Louis Thévenet is an American production designer, art director and set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Patton.-External links:...

     – Patton
    Patton (film)
    Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...

    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Mickey S. Michaels
      Mickey S. Michaels
      Mickey S. Michaels was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Michaels was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Airport
    • Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows...

      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction...

       – The Molly MaGuires
    • Terence Marsh
      Terence Marsh
      Terence Marsh is a British production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Production Designer:* Rush Hour 2 * The Green Mile...

      , Bob Cartwright, Pamela Cornell
      Pamela Cornell
      Pamela Cornell was a set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Scrooge.-External links:...

       – Scrooge
    • Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      , Yoshirō Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Tora! Tora! Tora! , Kagemusha and Ran . He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in...

      , Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)
      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....

      , Taizoh Kawashima, Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

      , Norman Rockett
      Norman Rockett
      Norman Rockett was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Rockett was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Carl Biddiscombe
      Carl Biddiscombe
      Carl Biddiscombe was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Biddiscombe was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gaily, Gaily...

       – Tora! Tora! Tora!
      Tora! Tora! Tora!
      is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...

  • 1971 John Box
    John Box
    John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

    , Ernest Archer
    Ernest Archer
    Ernest Archer was a British art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Jack Maxsted
    Jack Maxsted
    Jack Maxsted was an English art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Nicholas and Alexandra.-External links:...

    , Gil Parrondo
    Gil Parrondo
    Gil Parrondo is a Spanish art director, set decorator and production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon was a British set decorator. He won three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Dixon won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Oliver! * Nicholas and Alexandra...

     – Nicholas and Alexandra
    Nicholas and Alexandra
    Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra....

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

      , William Tuntke, Ruby Levitt – The Andromeda Strain
      The Andromeda Strain (film)
      The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. The film is about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed by Robert Wise, the film...

    • John B. Mansbridge
      John B. Mansbridge
      John B. Mansbridge was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Mansbridge was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Bedknobs and Broomsticks...

      , Peter Ellenshaw
      Peter Ellenshaw
      William "Peter" Ellenshaw was an Anglo-American matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features....

      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

       – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
      Bedknobs and Broomsticks
      Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company which combines live action and animation and was released in North America on December 13, 1971...

    • Robert F. Boyle
      Robert F. Boyle
      Robert Francis Boyle was an American film art director and production designer.Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California . When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra...

      , Michael Stringer
      Michael Stringer
      John Michael Stringer was a film production designer, art director, painter and illustrator.Stringer's work as art director on Fiddler on the Roof , involving much shooting in Yugoslavia, earned him an Academy Award nomination shared with the Hollywood production designer Robert Boyle and set...

      , Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only four Bond films that he did not work on are Dr...

       – Fiddler on the Roof
      Fiddler on the Roof (film)
      Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 film adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, about Tevye and his Daughters. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three...

    • Terence Marsh
      Terence Marsh
      Terence Marsh is a British production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Production Designer:* Rush Hour 2 * The Green Mile...

      , Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright was an art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cartwright was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Becket * Scrooge...

      , Peter Howitt
      Peter Howitt (set decorator)
      Peter Howitt is an English set decorator. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Howitt has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Elizabeth...

       – Mary, Queen of Scots
      Mary, Queen of Scots (film)
      Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1971 Universal Pictures biographical film based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Leading an all-star cast are Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I. In the same year, Jackson played the part of Elizabeth in the TV drama Elizabeth...

  • 1972 Rolf Zehetbauer
    Rolf Zehetbauer
    Rolf Zehetbauer is a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cabaret.-Notes:...

    , Jurgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel
    Herbert Strabel
    Herbert Strabel is a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cabaret.-External links:...

     – Cabaret
    Cabaret (film)
    Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....

    • Carl Anderson
      Carl Anderson (art director)
      Carl Anderson was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Anderson was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Reg Allen
      Reg Allen (set decorator)
      Reg Allen was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Lady Sings the Blues.-External links:...

       – Lady Sings the Blues
    • William Creber, Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton is a French set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Poseidon Adventure
    • John Box
      John Box
      John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

      , Gil Parrondo
      Gil Parrondo
      Gil Parrondo is a Spanish art director, set decorator and production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Robert W. Laing – Travels with My Aunt
      Travels with My Aunt (film)
      Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene.-Plot:...

    • Donald M. Ashton
      Donald M. Ashton
      Donald M. Ashton was a renowned Academy Award nominated and BAFTA-winning English art director most noted for his work on such films as Billy Budd , The Bridge on the River Kwai , Oh! What a Lovely War and Young Winston .-Background:Born Donald Martin Ashton in Edmonton, London, in 1917, Ashton...

      , Geoffrey Drake
      Geoffrey Drake
      Geoffrey Drake was an English production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Young Winston.-External links:...

      , John Graysmark
      John Graysmark
      John Graysmark was a British production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Graysmark was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , William Hutchinson
      William Hutchinson (art director)
      William Hutchinson was an art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Young Winston.-External links:...

      , Peter James
      Peter James (set decorator)
      Peter James was an English set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:James was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Young Winston
      Young Winston
      Young Winston is a 1972 British film based on the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father...

  • 1973 Henry Bumstead, James W. Payne
    James W. Payne
    James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Payne won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

     – The Sting
    The Sting
    The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Created by...

    • Lorenzo Mongiardino
      Lorenzo Mongiardino
      Lorenzo Mongiardino was an Italian architect, interior designer and production designer...

      , Gianni Quaranta
      Gianni Quaranta
      Gianni Quaranta is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Production Design for La Traviata . He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the...

      , Carmelo Patrono
      Carmelo Patrono
      Carmelo Patrono is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon.-External links:...

       – Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello Sole Sorella Luna)
      Brother Sun, Sister Moon
      Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi.-Plot:...

    • Bill Malley
      Bill Malley
      Bill Malley is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Exorcist.-External links:...

      , Jerry Wunderlich
      Jerry Wunderlich
      Jerry Wunderlich was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Wunderlich was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Exorcist
      The Exorcist (film)
      The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...

    • Philip Jefferies, Robert de Vestel
      Robert De Vestel
      Robert De Vestel was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:De Vestel was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Tom Sawyer...

       – Tom Sawyer
    • Stephen Grimes, William Kiernan
      William Kiernan
      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Kiernan was nominated for six Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       (posthumous nomination) – The Way We Were
      The Way We Were
      The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic dramatic film co-starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.A box...

  • 1974 Dean Tavoularis
    Dean Tavoularis
    Dean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...

    , Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
    George R. Nelson
    George R. Nelson was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – The Godfather Part II
    The Godfather Part II
    The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the...

    • Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

      , W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Campbell was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Ruby Levitt – Chinatown
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames was a famous Hollywood art director.Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939...

      , Frank McKelvy – Earthquake
      Earthquake (film)
      Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations...

    • Peter Ellenshaw
      Peter Ellenshaw
      William "Peter" Ellenshaw was an Anglo-American matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features....

      , John B. Mansbridge
      John B. Mansbridge
      John B. Mansbridge was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Mansbridge was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Bedknobs and Broomsticks...

      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Los Angeles, California and died in Orange County, California...

      , Al Roelofs
      Al Roelofs
      Al Roelofs was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Island at the Top of the World.-External links:...

      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

       – The Island at the Top of the World
    • William Creber, Ward Preston
      Ward Preston
      Ward Preston was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Towering Inferno.-External links:...

      . Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton is a French set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Towering Inferno
      The Towering Inferno
      The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.A co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros...

  • 1975 Ken Adam
    Ken Adam
    Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...

    , Roy Walker
    Roy Walker (production designer)
    Roy Walker is a production designer. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Walker won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

    , Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon
    Vernon Dixon was a British set decorator. He won three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Dixon won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Oliver! * Nicholas and Alexandra...

     – Barry Lyndon
    Barry Lyndon
    Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...

    • Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur...

      , Frank McKelvy – The Hindenburg
    • Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis
      Tony Inglis
      Tony Inglis was an art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Man Who Would Be King.-External links:...

      , Peter James
      Peter James (set decorator)
      Peter James was an English set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:James was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Man Who Would Be King
      The Man Who Would Be King (film)
      The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling .The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of...

    • Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

      , W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Campbell was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , George Gaines
      George Gaines (set decorator)
      George Gaines was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Shampoo
      Shampoo (film)
      Shampoo is a 1975 satirical film written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby. It stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill and in an early film appearance, Carrie Fisher....

    • Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Marvin March
      Marvin March
      Marvin March is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:March has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Addams Family Values...

       – The Sunshine Boys
      The Sunshine Boys (film)
      The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and produced by Ray Stark, based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon. The cast included real-life experienced vaudevillian actor George Burns as Lewis, Walter Matthau as Clark, and Richard Benjamin as Ben, with Lee Meredith, F....

  • 1976 George Jenkins
    George Jenkins
    George Clarke Jenkins was an American production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania before leaving to build sets...

    , George Gaines
    George Gaines (set decorator)
    George Gaines was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – All the President's Men
    All the President's Men (film)
    All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...

    • Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott was an English art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scott was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

       – The Incredible Sarah
      The Incredible Sarah
      The Incredible Sarah is a 1976 British drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Glenda Jackson. It presents dramatization of the acting career of Sarah Bernhardt.-Cast:* Glenda Jackson - Sarah Bernhardt* Daniel Massey - Victorien Sardou...

    • Gene Callahan, Jack Collis, Jerry Wunderlich
      Jerry Wunderlich
      Jerry Wunderlich was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Wunderlich was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Last Tycoon
      The Last Tycoon (film)
      The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American dramatic film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, sometimes known as The Love of the Last Tycoon. It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack...

    • Dale Hennesy
      Dale Hennesy
      Dale Hennesy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Robert de Vestel
      Robert De Vestel
      Robert De Vestel was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:De Vestel was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Tom Sawyer...

       – Logan's Run
    • Robert F. Boyle
      Robert F. Boyle
      Robert Francis Boyle was an American film art director and production designer.Born in Los Angeles, Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California . When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra...

      , Arthur Jeph Parker
      Arthur Jeph Parker
      Arthur Jeph Parker was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Parker was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Shootist
      The Shootist
      The Shootist is a 1976 Western starring John Wayne in his final film role. It was based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout. Scott Hale and Miles Hood Swarthout wrote the screenplay...

  • 1977 John Barry
    John Barry (set designer)
    John Barry was a British film production designer, known for his work on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.-Career:...

    , Norman Reynolds
    Norman Reynolds
    Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

    , Leslie Dilley
    Leslie Dilley
    Leslie Dilley is a Welsh production designer and art director. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Roger Christian
    Roger Christian (filmmaker)
    -External links:*...

     – Star Wars
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...

    • George C. Webb
      George C. Webb
      George C. Webb was an American art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Webb was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Gambit...

      , Mickey S. Michaels
      Mickey S. Michaels
      Mickey S. Michaels was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Michaels was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Airport '77
      Airport '77
      Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.The film stars a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport '77 was a box office hit earning US$30 million and...

    • Joe Alves
      Joe Alves
      Joe Alves is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on three of the Jaws films. He directed Jaws 3-D....

      , Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson
      Phil Abramson
      Phil Abramson is an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.-External links:...

       – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey...

    • Ken Adam
      Ken Adam
      Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...

      , Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only four Bond films that he did not work on are Dr...

      , Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife was a British set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scaife was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Spy Who Loved Me
      The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
      The Spy Who Loved Me is a spy film, the tenth film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...

    • Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Marvin March
      Marvin March
      Marvin March is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:March has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Addams Family Values...

       – The Turning Point
      The Turning Point (1977 film)
      The Turning Point is a 1977 film written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell.-Plot:This film tells the story of...

  • 1978 Paul Sylbert
    Paul Sylbert
    Paul Sylbert is an American Academy Award-winning production designer, art director, and set designer who directed on occasion....

    , Edwin O'Donovan
    Edwin O'Donovan
    Edwin O'Donovan was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Heaven Can Wait.-External links:...

    , George Gaines
    George Gaines (set decorator)
    George Gaines was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     – Heaven Can Wait
    Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)
    Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. It is the second film adaptation of Harry Segall's stageplay of the same name, preceded by Here Comes Mr. Jordan and followed by Down to Earth...

    • Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...

      , Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Brink's Job
      The Brink's Job
      The Brink's Job is a 1978 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, and Paul Sorvino. It is based on the Brink's robbery in Boston, where almost 3 million dollars were stolen....

    • Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Marvin March
      Marvin March
      Marvin March is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:March has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Addams Family Values...

       – California Suite
      California Suite (film)
      California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his play of the same title...

    • Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was born Melvin B...

      , Daniel Robert
      Daniel Robert
      Daniel Robert is an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Interiors.-External links:...

       – Interiors
      Interiors
      Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton and Sam Waterston....

    • Tony Walton
      Tony Walton
      Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer.Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New...

      , Philip Rosenberg
      Philip Rosenberg
      Philip Rosenberg is an American production designer and art director. He has won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Edward Stewart
      Edward Stewart (set decorator)
      Edward Stewart was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Stewart won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won...

      , Robert Drumheller
      Robert Drumheller
      Robert Drumheller was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Wiz.-External links:...

       – The Wiz
      The Wiz (film)
      The Wiz is a 1978 musical film produced by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was adapted from the 1975 Broadway musical...

  • 1979 Philip Rosenberg
    Philip Rosenberg
    Philip Rosenberg is an American production designer and art director. He has won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    , Tony Walton
    Tony Walton
    Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer.Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New...

    , Edward Stewart
    Edward Stewart (set decorator)
    Edward Stewart was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Stewart won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won...

    , Gary Brink – All That Jazz
    All That Jazz
    All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...

    • Michael Seymour
      Michael Seymour (production designer)
      Michael Seymour is a British production designer. He won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for work on the film Alien.-External links:...

      , Les Dilley, Roger Christian
      Roger Christian (filmmaker)
      -External links:*...

      , Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Alien
      Alien (film)
      Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which...

    • Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...

      , Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – Apocalypse Now
      Apocalypse Now
      Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...

    • George Jenkins
      George Jenkins
      George Clarke Jenkins was an American production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania before leaving to build sets...

      , Arthur Jeph Parker
      Arthur Jeph Parker
      Arthur Jeph Parker was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Parker was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The China Syndrome
      The China Syndrome
      The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.The film was...

    • Harold Michelson
      Harold Michelson
      Harold Michelson was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.-Biography:...

      , Joe Jennings, Leon Harris
      Leon Harris (art director)
      Leon Harris was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.-External links:...

      , John Vallone
      John Vallone
      John Vallone was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He died by drowning in a hot tub....

      , Linda Descenna
      Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeScenna has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Star Trek: The Motion Picture
      Star Trek: The Motion Picture
      Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first film based on the Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century, when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud called V'Ger approaches the Earth,...


1980s

  • 1980 Pierre Guffroy
    Pierre Guffroy
    Pierre Guffroy was a French production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award for Tess in 1979 and had been previously nominated for one in another category Best Art Direction for Is Paris Burning? in 1966....

    , Jack Stephens – Tess
    Tess (film)
    Tess is a 1980 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl who finds out she has title connections by way of her old aristocratic surname and who is raped by her wealthy...

    • John W. Corso
      John W. Corso
      John W. Corso was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Coal Miner's Daughter.-External links:...

      , John M. Dwyer
      John M. Dwyer
      John M. Dwyer is an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Coal Miner's Daughter.-External links:...

       – Coal Miner's Daughter
      Coal Miner's Daughter
      Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music icon Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The film was...

    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

      , Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright was an art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cartwright was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Becket * Scrooge...

      , Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife was a British set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scaife was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Elephant Man
      The Elephant Man (film)
      The Elephant Man is a 1980 American drama film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick , a severely deformed man in 19th century London...

    • Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

      , Leslie Dilley
      Leslie Dilley
      Leslie Dilley is a Welsh production designer and art director. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Harry Lange
      Harry Lange (film designer)
      Hans Kurt Lange was a German film production designer and art director.Lange was born in 1930 in Eisenach, Thuringia. After World War II, Thuringia became part of Soviet-controlled East Germany; Lange escaped across the border to West Germany, where he studied art before moving to the United...

      , Alan Tomkins
      Alan Tomkins
      Alan Tomkins is an art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Empire Strikes Back.-External links:...

      , Michael D. Ford
      Michael D. Ford
      After a training as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London, Michael Dickins Ford worked as a scenic artist until “drifting into” the film industry via commercial television. His first movie was Man in the Moon, and he first attracted attention in The Anniversary with Bette Davis and in...

       – The Empire Strikes Back
      Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
      Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan...

    • Yoshirō Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Tora! Tora! Tora! , Kagemusha and Ran . He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in...

       – Kagemusha
      Kagemusha
      is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable...


  • 1981 Norman Reynolds
    Norman Reynolds
    Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

    , Leslie Dilley
    Leslie Dilley
    Leslie Dilley is a Welsh production designer and art director. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    ; Michael D. Ford
    Michael D. Ford
    After a training as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London, Michael Dickins Ford worked as a scenic artist until “drifting into” the film industry via commercial television. His first movie was Man in the Moon, and he first attracted attention in The Anniversary with Bette Davis and in...

     (Set Decoration) – Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...

    • Assheton Gorton
      Assheton Gorton
      Assheton Gorton is an English production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The French Lieutenant's Woman and was the BAFTA nominated art director for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.-Selected filmography:*The Knack ...and How...

      , Ann Mollo
      Ann Mollo
      Ann Mollo is a British set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The French Lieutenant's Woman.-Selected filmography:* The French Lieutenant's Woman -External links:...

       – The French Lieutenant's Woman
      The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)
      The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the novel of the same title by John Fowles...

    • Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows...

      , James L. Berkey
      James L. Berkey
      James Lysander Berkey was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Heaven's Gate.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

       – Heaven's Gate
      Heaven's Gate (film)
      Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s...

    • John Graysmark
      John Graysmark
      John Graysmark was a British production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Graysmark was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Patrizia von Brandenstein
      Patrizia von Brandenstein
      Patrizia von Brandenstein is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy...

      , Tony Reading
      Tony Reading
      Tony Reading was a British art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Ragtime.-External links:...

      , George DeTitta Sr., George DeTitta, Jr.
      George DeTitta, Jr.
      George DeTitta, Jr. is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeTitta has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Radio Days...

      , Peter Howitt
      Peter Howitt (set decorator)
      Peter Howitt is an English set decorator. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Howitt has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Elizabeth...

       – Ragtime
      Ragtime (film)
      Ragtime is a 1981 American film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the first decade of the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film was...

    • Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

      , Michael Seirton
      Michael Seirton
      Michael Seirton is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Seirton won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and has been nominated for another:Won...

       – Reds

  • 1982 Stuart Craig
    Stuart Craig
    Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

    , Robert W. Laing; Michael Seirton
    Michael Seirton
    Michael Seirton is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Seirton won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and has been nominated for another:Won...

     (Set Decoration) – Gandhi
    Gandhi (film)
    Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...

    • Dale Hennesy
      Dale Hennesy
      Dale Hennesy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (posthumous nomination), Marvin March
      Marvin March
      Marvin March is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:March has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Addams Family Values...

       – Annie
      Annie (film)
      Annie is a 1982 American musical film directed by John Huston and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. The film is an adaption of the 1977 stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray. The movie features music by Charles Strouse,...

    • Lawrence G. Paull
      Lawrence G. Paull
      Lawrence G. Paull is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Blade Runner.-External links:...

      , David L. Snyder, Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeScenna has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Blade Runner
      Blade Runner
      Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

    • Franco Zeffirelli
      Franco Zeffirelli
      Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

      , Gianni Quaranta
      Gianni Quaranta
      Gianni Quaranta is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Production Design for La Traviata . He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the...

       – La traviata
      La Traviata (1983 film)
      La Traviata is a 1982 Italian film written, designed, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is based on the 1853 opera of the same name with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The film actually premiered in Italy in 1982, then went into general release there in 1983. It...

    • Rodger Maus
      Rodger Maus
      Rodger Maus is an American art director and production designer. He was the art director for 103 episodes of the 251 episode television series M*A*S*H....

      , Tim Hutchinson
      Tim Hutchinson (production designer)
      Tim Hutchinson is a British art director and production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Victor/Victoria. He was also nominated for a BAFTA in the category of Design for The Hanging Gale.-External links:...

      , William Craig Smith
      William Craig Smith
      William Craig Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Victor/Victoria.-External links:...

      , Harry Cordwell
      Harry Cordwell
      Harry Cordwell was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cordwell was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Victor/Victoria...

       – Victor Victoria

  • 1983 Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim
    Susanne Lingheim
    Susanne Lingheim was a Swedish art director. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Fanny and Alexander.-External links:...

     – Fanny and Alexander
    Fanny and Alexander
    Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 Swedish fantasy drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four-part TV movie and cut in that version, spanning 312 minutes. A 188-minute version was created later for cinematic release, although this version was in fact the...

    • Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

      , Fred Hole
      Fred Hole
      Fred Hole was an English art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Return of the Jedi.-External links:...

      , James L. Schoppe
      James L. Schoppe
      James L. Schoppe is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Return of the Jedi.-External links:...

      , Michael D. Ford
      Michael D. Ford
      After a training as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London, Michael Dickins Ford worked as a scenic artist until “drifting into” the film industry via commercial television. His first movie was Man in the Moon, and he first attracted attention in The Anniversary with Bette Davis and in...

       – Return of the Jedi
      Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
      Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand and written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. It is the third film released in the Star Wars saga, and the sixth in terms of the series' internal chronology...

    • Geoffrey Kirkland
      Geoffrey Kirkland
      Geoffrey Kirkland is an English production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Right Stuff.-Selected filmography:* Fame * WarGames...

      , Richard Lawrence
      Richard Lawrence (art director)
      Richard Lawrence is an art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Right Stuff.-Selected filmography:* The Shootist * The Right Stuff * Crimson Tide...

      , W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell
      W. Stewart Campbell is an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Campbell was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Peter R. Romero
      Peter R. Romero
      Peter R. Romero was an art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Right Stuff.-External links:...

      , Jim Poynter
      Jim Poynter
      Jim Poynter is an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Right Stuff. In most of his earlier work, he was credited under the pseudonym of Pat Pending....

      , George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson
      George R. Nelson was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Right Stuff
    • Polly Platt
      Polly Platt
      Mary Marr "Polly" Platt was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.-Early life:Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly. Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in...

      , Harold Michelson
      Harold Michelson
      Harold Michelson was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.-Biography:...

      , Tom Pedigo
      Tom Pedigo
      Tom Pedigo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Terms of Endearment.-External links:...

      , Anthony Mondell
      Anthony Mondell
      Anthony Mondell was born in Los Angeles, California to Italian parents, Olimpia née Giove, and Francesco "Frank" Mondelli, native from Canneto ....

       – Terms of Endearment
      Terms of Endearment
      Terms of Endearment is a 1983 romantic comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson...

    • Roy Walker
      Roy Walker (production designer)
      Roy Walker is a production designer. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Walker won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

      , Leslie Tomkins
      Leslie Tomkins
      Leslie Tomkins is an English art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Yentl.-External links:...

      , Tessa Davies
      Tessa Davies
      Tessa Davies was an English set decorator. She carried the suffix MCSD as she was a member of the Chartered Society of Designers. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Yentl. She was bludgeoned to death.-External links:...

       – Yentl
      Yentl (film)
      Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".The dramatic story...


  • 1984 Patrizia von Brandenstein
    Patrizia von Brandenstein
    Patrizia von Brandenstein is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy...

    ; Karel Cerný
    Karel Cerný
    Karel Černý is a Czech art director and production designer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Amadeus.-External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – Amadeus
    Amadeus (film)
    Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...

    • Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert
      Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

      , George Gaines
      George Gaines (set decorator)
      George Gaines was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       – The Cotton Club
      The Cotton Club (film)
      The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a famed Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.The movie was co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines...

    • Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was born Melvin B...

      , Angelo P. Graham
      Angelo P. Graham
      Angelo P. Graham is an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Graham won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for three more:Won...

      , Bruce Weintraub
      Bruce Weintraub
      Bruce Weintraub was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Natural...

       – The Natural
      The Natural (film)
      The Natural is a 1984 film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close and Robert Duvall...

    • John Box
      John Box
      John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...

      , Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife
      Hugh Scaife was a British set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scaife was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – A Passage to India
      A Passage to India (film)
      A Passage to India is a 1984 drama film written and directed by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster and the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau that was inspired by the novel....

    • Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Rick Simpson
      Rick Simpson
      Rick Simpson is an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Awards:Simpson won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won* Dick Tracy...

       – 2010

  • 1985 Stephen Grimes; Josie Macavin
    Josie MacAvin
    Josie MacAvin was an Irish set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated two more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     (Set Decoration) – Out of Africa
    • Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood is an English production designer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Garwood has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Maggie Gray
      Maggie Gray
      Maggie Gray is an English set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Brazil and again in 2010 for her work in The Young Victoria.-External links:...

       – Brazil
      Brazil (film)
      Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm...

    • J. Michael Riva
      J. Michael Riva
      J Michael Riva is a motion picture production designer.*Son of William and Maria Riva. Grandson of Marlene Dietrich.*Michael Riva's father is William Riva, who was a set designer for Broadway...

      , Bo Welch
      Bo Welch
      Robert W. "Bo" Welch III is an American motion picture production designer and director.Welch was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He worked as a production designer on the Tim Burton films Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman Returns, as well as A Little Princess and Men in Black, among...

      , Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeScenna has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – The Color Purple
      The Color Purple (film)
      The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director , and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous...

    • Yoshirō Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki
      Yoshiro Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Tora! Tora! Tora! , Kagemusha and Ran . He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in...

      , Shinobu Muraki
      Shinobu Muraki
      Shinobu Muraki is a Japanese production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Akira Kurosawa's film Ran .- Filmography :as production designer...

       – Ran (乱)
      Ran (film)
      is a 1985 Japanese-French jidaigeki film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film starred Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. It also stars Mieko Harada as the wife of Ichimonji's eldest son...

    • Stan Jolley
      Stan Jolley
      Isaac Stanford Jolley, Jr., known as Stan Jolley , is an American art director and production designer, originally employed by Walt Disney Studios before he struck out on his own. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the 1985 film Witness.He is the son of...

      , John H. Anderson
      John H. Anderson
      John H. Anderson is an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Witness.-External links:...

       – Witness
      Witness (1985 film)
      Witness is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. The screenplay by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W...


  • 1986 Gianni Quaranta
    Gianni Quaranta
    Gianni Quaranta is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Production Design for La Traviata . He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the...

    , Brian Ackland-Snow
    Brian Ackland-Snow
    Brian Ackland-Snow is an English production designer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View.-External links:...

    ; Brian Savegar
    Brian Savegar
    Brian Savegar was a production designer in the film and TV industry. He won an Academy Award in 1986 in the category Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View.-Early years:...

    , Elio Altamura (Set Decoration) – A Room with a View
    A Room with a View (film)
    A Room with a View is a 1985 British drama film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. The film is a close adaptation of E. M...

    • Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont
      Peter Lamont is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only four Bond films that he did not work on are Dr...

      , Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis is a British art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Aliens, Driving Miss Daisy and Gladiator.-Selected filmography:* Aliens...

       – Aliens
      Aliens (film)
      Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...

    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven
      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....

       (posthumous nomination), Karen O'Hara
      Karen O'Hara
      Karen O'Hara is an American art director. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Alice in Wonderland and was nominated for another one for The Color of Money.-Selected filmography:* The Color of Money...

       – The Color of Money
      The Color of Money
      The Color of Money is a 1986 film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis....

    • Stuart Wurtzel
      Stuart Wurtzel
      Stuart Wurtzel is an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Hannah and Her Sisters.-External links:...

      , Carol Joffe
      Carol Joffe
      Carol Joffe is an American art director. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days. She was married to film producer Charles H. Joffe.-External links:...

       – Hannah and Her Sisters
      Hannah and Her Sisters
      Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner...

    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

      , Jack Stephens – The Mission

  • 1987 Ferdinando Scarfiotti
    Ferdinando Scarfiotti
    Ferdinando Scarfiotti was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.-Selected filmography:* Death in Venice...

    ; Bruno Cesari
    Bruno Cesari
    Bruno Cesari was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.-External links:...

    , Osvaldo Desideri
    Osvaldo Desideri
    Osvaldo Desideri is an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.-External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – The Last Emperor
    The Last Emperor
    The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures...

    • Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds
      Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK....

      , Harry Cordwell
      Harry Cordwell
      Harry Cordwell was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cordwell was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Victor/Victoria...

       – Empire of the Sun
      Empire of the Sun (film)
      Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...

    • Anthony Pratt
      Anthony D. G. Pratt
      Anthony D. G. Pratt is a British production designer from London, England. He is the great nephew of William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff and the nephew of actress Gillian Pratt Anthony D. G. Pratt (born 27 November 1937) is a British production designer from London, England. He is...

      , Joanne Woollard
      Joanne Woollard
      Joanne Woollard is a British art director. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Hope and Glory.-External links:...

       – Hope and Glory
    • Santo Loquasto
      Santo Loquasto
      Santo Richard Loquasto is a Sicilian-Italian-American production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for stage, film, and dance. He is a descendant of Libertino lo Guasto of Serradifalco, Caltanissetta, Sicily. Indy race car driver Al Loquasto was his first cousin...

      , Carol Joffe
      Carol Joffe
      Carol Joffe is an American art director. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days. She was married to film producer Charles H. Joffe.-External links:...

      , Leslie Bloom
      Leslie Bloom
      Leslie Bloom is an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Radio Days.-External links:...

      , George DeTitta Jr. – Radio Days
      Radio Days
      Radio Days is a 1987 comedy film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on an American family's life during the Golden Age of Radio using both music and memories to tell the story.-Plot:...

    • Patrizia von Brandenstein
      Patrizia von Brandenstein
      Patrizia von Brandenstein is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy...

      , William A. Elliott
      William A. Elliott
      William A. Elliott is an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Untouchables.-External links:...

      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

       – The Untouchables

  • 1988 Stuart Craig
    Stuart Craig
    Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

    ; Gérard James
    Gérard James
    Gérard James is an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Dangerous Liaisons.-External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – Dangerous Liaisons
    Dangerous Liaisons
    Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos....

    • Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner
      Albert Brenner is an American production designer and art director. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis is an American art director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Brenner has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Beaches...

       – Beaches
      Beaches (film)
      Beaches , is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name...

    • Ida Random
      Ida Random
      Ida Random is an American production designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Rain Man.-External links:...

      , Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeScenna has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       – Rain Man
      Rain Man
      Rain Man is a 1988 drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son,...

    • Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...

      , Armin Ganz
      Armin Ganz
      Armin Ganz was an American production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Tucker: The Man and His Dream.-External links:...

       – Tucker: The Man and His Dream
      Tucker: The Man and His Dream
      Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a 1988 biographical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. The film recounts the story of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the 1948 Tucker Sedan, which was met with scandal between the "Big Three automobile...

    • Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott was an English art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scott was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Peter Howitt
      Peter Howitt (set decorator)
      Peter Howitt is an English set decorator. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Howitt has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Elizabeth...

       – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
      Who Framed Roger Rabbit
      Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...


  • 1989 Anton Furst; Peter Young
    Peter Young (set decorator)
    Peter Young is a set decorator. He has won two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Batman and Sleepy Hollow.-Selected filmography:* Batman * Sleepy Hollow -External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – Batman
    Batman (1989 film)
    Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...

    • Leslie Dilley
      Leslie Dilley
      Leslie Dilley is a Welsh production designer and art director. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

      , Anne Kuljian
      Anne Kuljian
      Anne Kuljian is a set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Abyss.-External links:...

       – The Abyss
      The Abyss
      The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

      , Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

       – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
      The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
      The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams.-Plot:...

    • Bruno Rubeo
      Bruno Rubeo
      Bruno Rubeo was a production designer, known for his multiple collaborations with directors Oliver Stone and Taylor Hackford....

      , Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis is a British art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Aliens, Driving Miss Daisy and Gladiator.-Selected filmography:* Aliens...

       – Driving Miss Daisy
      Driving Miss Daisy
      Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same name. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy...

    • Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood is an English production designer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Garwood has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      , Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis is an American art director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Brenner has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Beaches...

       – Glory

1990s

  • 1990 Richard Sylbert
    Richard Sylbert
    Richard Sylbert was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films....

     (Art Direction); Rick Simpson
    Rick Simpson
    Rick Simpson is an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.-Awards:Simpson won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:Won* Dick Tracy...

     (Set Decoration) – Dick Tracy
    • Ezio Frigerio (Art Direction); Jacques Rouxel
      Jacques Rouxel (production designer)
      Jacques Rouxel is a French production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Cyrano de Bergerac.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Cyrano de Bergerac
      Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)
      Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French-language film based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand. It was directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The English subtitles use Anthony Burgess's translation of the text, which preserves the...

    • Jeffrey Beecroft
      Jeffrey Beecroft
      Jeffrey Beecroft is an American production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Dances with Wolves.-External links:...

       (Art Direction); Lisa Dean
      Lisa Dean
      Lisa Dean is an American set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-External links:...

        (Set Decoration) – Dances with Wolves
      Dances with Wolves
      Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...

    • Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis
      Dean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...

       (Art Direction); Gary Fettis
      Gary Fettis
      Gary Fettis is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* The Godfather Part III * Changeling -External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Godfather Part III
      The Godfather Part III
      The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American gangster film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin who tries to legitimize his criminal empire...

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

       (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

       (Set Decoration) – Hamlet
      Hamlet (1990 film)
      Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet. It was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, with Mel Gibson as the young Prince Hamlet...


  • 1991 Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – Bugsy
    Bugsy
    Bugsy is a 1991 American crime-drama film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, and Bill Graham....

    • Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – Barton Fink
      Barton Fink
      Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...

    • Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne
      Mel Bourne was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was born Melvin B...

       (Art Direction); Cindy Carr
      Cindy Carr
      Cindy Carr is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* The Fisher King * What Dreams May Come -External links:...

        (Set Decoration) – The Fisher King
      The Fisher King (film)
      The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter...

    • Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood
      Norman Garwood is an English production designer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Garwood has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       (Art Direction); Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis is an American art director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Brenner has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Beaches...

        (Set Decoration) – Hook
      Hook (film)
      Hook is a 1991 American fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, and features Maggie Smith, Caroline Goodall, Charlie Korsmo, Amber Scott, and Dante Basco. Hook acts as a sequel to Peter Pan's original adventures, focusing...

    • Paul Sylbert
      Paul Sylbert
      Paul Sylbert is an American Academy Award-winning production designer, art director, and set designer who directed on occasion....

       (Art Direction); Caryl Heller
      Caryl Heller
      Caryl Heller is a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Prince of Tides.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Prince of Tides
      The Prince of Tides
      The Prince of Tides is a 1991 romantic drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Pat Conroy; the film stars Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte. It tells the story of the narrator's struggle to overcome the psychological damage inflicted by his dysfunctional childhood in South Carolina...


  • 1992 Luciana Arrighi
    Luciana Arrighi
    Luciana Arrighi is an Italian production designer. She won an Academy Award for the film Howards End in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker
    Ian Whittaker
    Ian Whittaker is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

     (Set Decoration) – Howards End
    Howards End (film)
    Howards End is a 1992 film based upon the novel of the same title by E. M. Forster , a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England...

    • Thomas E. Sanders
      Thomas E. Sanders
      Thomas E. Sanders is production designer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Dracula * Saving Private Ryan -External links:...

       (Art Direction); Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis
      Garrett Lewis is an American art director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Brenner has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Beaches...

       (Set Decoration) – Bram Stoker's Dracula
    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

       (Art Direction); Chris A. Butler
      Chris A. Butler
      Chris A. Butler was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Chaplin. He died at his home in Los Angeles, from complications of AIDS....

       (Set Decoration) – Chaplin
    • Ferdinando Scarfiotti
      Ferdinando Scarfiotti
      Ferdinando Scarfiotti was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.-Selected filmography:* Death in Venice...

       (Art Direction); Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna
      Linda DeScenna is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:DeScenna has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       (Set Decoration) – Toys
    • Henry Bumstead (Art Direction); Janice Blackie-Goodine
      Janice Blackie-Goodine
      Janice Blackie-Goodine is set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Unforgiven.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Unforgiven
      Unforgiven
      Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming...


  • 1993 Allan Starski (Art Direction); Ewa Braun (Set Decoration) – Schindler's List
    Schindler's List
    Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...

    • Ken Adam
      Ken Adam
      Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...

       (Art Direction); Marvin March
      Marvin March
      Marvin March is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:March has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Addams Family Values...

        (Set Decoration) – Addams Family Values
      Addams Family Values
      Addams Family Values is a 1993 sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. The film was written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and many cast members from the original returned for the sequel, including Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, and Christina Ricci...

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

       (Art Direction); Robert J. Franco
      Robert J. Franco
      Robert J. Franco is a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Age of Innocence.-External links:...

        (Set Decoration) – The Age of Innocence
      The Age of Innocence (film)
      The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name. The film was released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder....

    • Ben Van Os
      Ben Van Os
      Ben Van Os is a Dutch production designer and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Orlando * Girl with a Pearl Earring -External links:...

      , Jan Roelfs  (Art Direction) – Orlando
      Orlando (film)
      Orlando is a 1992 film based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. It was directed by Sally Potter....

    • Luciana Arrighi
      Luciana Arrighi
      Luciana Arrighi is an Italian production designer. She won an Academy Award for the film Howards End in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Remains of the Day
      The Remains of the Day (film)
      The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Merchant Ivory film adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton with James Fox,...


  • 1994 Ken Adam
    Ken Adam
    Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...

     (Art Direction); Carolyn Scott
    Carolyn Scott
    Carolyn Scott is a art director and set decorator. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Madness of King George.-External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – The Madness of King George
    The Madness of King George
    The Madness of King George is a 1994 film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly...

    • Santo Loquasto
      Santo Loquasto
      Santo Richard Loquasto is a Sicilian-Italian-American production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for stage, film, and dance. He is a descendant of Libertino lo Guasto of Serradifalco, Caltanissetta, Sicily. Indy race car driver Al Loquasto was his first cousin...

       (Art Direction); Susan Bode
      Susan Bode
      Susan Bode is a set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Bullets Over Broadway.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Bullets Over Broadway
      Bullets Over Broadway
      Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 crime-comedy film written by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and directed by Woody Allen. It stars an ensemble cast including John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri, and Jennifer Tilly....

    • Rick Carter
      Rick Carter
      Rick Carter is an American production designer and art director. He is known for his work in the film Forrest Gump, which earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in Amistad and A.I. Artificial Intelligence...

       (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – Forrest Gump
      Forrest Gump
      Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

       (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

       (Set Decoration) – Interview with the Vampire
      Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
      Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is a 1994 American drama and horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. The film focuses on Lestat and Louis, beginning with Louis' transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791...

    • Lilly Kilvert
      Lilly Kilvert
      Lilly Kilvert is an American production designer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-External links:...

       (Art Direction); Dorree Cooper
      Dorree Cooper
      Dorree Cooper is an American set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Legends of the Fall.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Legends of the Fall
      Legends of the Fall
      Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...

  • 1995: Eugenio Zanetti
    Eugenio Zanetti
    Eugenio Zanetti is an Argentine dramatist, painter, film set designer, and theater and opera director.Zanetti was born in Córdoba, Argentina...

     (Art Direction) – Restoration
    • Michael Corenblith
      Michael Corenblith
      Michael Corenblith is an art director and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Apollo 13 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas -External links:...

       (Art Direction); Merideth Boswell
      Merideth Boswell
      Merideth Boswell is a set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Apollo 13 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas -External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Apollo 13
      Apollo 13 (film)
      Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...

    • Roger Ford
      Roger Ford (production designer)
      Roger Ford is a production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Babe.-Selected filmography:* Babe * Rabbit-Proof Fence...

       (Art Direction); Kerrie Brown
      Kerrie Brown
      Kerrie Brown is a set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Babe.-Selected filmography:* Babe * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

       (Set Decoration) – Babe
      Babe (film)
      Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...

    • Bo Welch
      Bo Welch
      Robert W. "Bo" Welch III is an American motion picture production designer and director.Welch was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He worked as a production designer on the Tim Burton films Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman Returns, as well as A Little Princess and Men in Black, among...

       (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik is a set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* A Little Princess * The Birdcage * Men in Black...

       (Set Decoration) – A Little Princess
      A Little Princess (1995 film)
      A Little Princess is a 1995 American children's film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, and Vanessa Lee Chester. Set during World War I, it focuses on a young girl who is relegated to a life of servitude in a New York City boarding school by the...

    • Tony Burrough
      Tony Burrough
      Tony Burrough is a production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Richard III.-External links:...

       (Art Direction) – Richard III
      Richard III (1995 film)
      Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West....


  • 1996: Stuart Craig
    Stuart Craig
    Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

     (Art Direction); Stephanie McMillan
    Stephanie McMillan
    Stephanie McMillan is a set decorator. She is best known for working on all Harry Potter films to date. She picked up three Academy Award nominations for the first, fourth, and seventh films in the series. She won an Oscar, though, in 1996 for The English Patient, an award which she shared with...

     (Set Decoration) – The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)
    The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...

    • Bo Welch
      Bo Welch
      Robert W. "Bo" Welch III is an American motion picture production designer and director.Welch was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He worked as a production designer on the Tim Burton films Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman Returns, as well as A Little Princess and Men in Black, among...

       (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik is a set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* A Little Princess * The Birdcage * Men in Black...

       (Set Decoration) – The Birdcage
      The Birdcage
      The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski. The script was written by Elaine May...

    • Brian Morris (Art Direction); Philippe Turlure  (Set Decoration) – Evita
      Evita (film)
      Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. It starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce...

    • Tim Harvey (Art Direction) – Hamlet
      Hamlet (1996 film)
      Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet...

    • Catherine Martin
      Catherine Martin
      Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.-Biography:Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School...

       (Art Direction); Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration) – William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

  • 1997: Peter Lamont
    Peter Lamont
    Peter Lamont is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only four Bond films that he did not work on are Dr...

     (Art Direction); Michael D. Ford
    Michael D. Ford
    After a training as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London, Michael Dickins Ford worked as a scenic artist until “drifting into” the film industry via commercial television. His first movie was Man in the Moon, and he first attracted attention in The Anniversary with Bette Davis and in...

     (Set Decoration) – Titanic
    Titanic (1997 film)
    Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...

    • Jan Roelfs (Art Direction); Nancy Nye  (Set Decoration) – Gattaca
      Gattaca
      Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin....

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

       (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

        (Set Decoration) – Kundun
      Kundun
      Kundun is a 1997 epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet...

    • Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Claudia Oppewall is an American film art director. She has worked on more than 30 movies in such roles as art decorator, set decorator and production designer, and has four Academy Award nominations for Best Art Design for L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit and The Good Shepherd...

       (Art Direction); Jay R. Hart  (Set Decoration) – L.A. Confidential
      L.A. Confidential (film)
      L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...

    • Bo Welch
      Bo Welch
      Robert W. "Bo" Welch III is an American motion picture production designer and director.Welch was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He worked as a production designer on the Tim Burton films Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman Returns, as well as A Little Princess and Men in Black, among...

       (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik is a set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* A Little Princess * The Birdcage * Men in Black...

       (Set Decoration) – Men in Black
      Men in Black (film)
      Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published by Marvel Comics. The film featured the creature effects...


  • 1998: Martin Childs
    Martin Childs
    Martin Childs, M.B.E., , is a British production designer. He won the 1998 Academy Award for best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Shakespeare in Love, and was nominated for the 2001 Academy Award...

     (Art Direction); Jill Quertier (Set Decoration) – Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British-American comedy film directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....

    • John Myhre
      John Myhre
      John Myhre is an American production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers...

       (Art Direction); Peter Howitt
      Peter Howitt (set decorator)
      Peter Howitt is an English set decorator. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Howitt has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Elizabeth...

       (Set Decoration) – Elizabeth
      Elizabeth (film)
      Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough...

    • Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Claudia Oppewall is an American film art director. She has worked on more than 30 movies in such roles as art decorator, set decorator and production designer, and has four Academy Award nominations for Best Art Design for L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit and The Good Shepherd...

       (Art Direction); Jay Hart (Set Decoration) – Pleasantville
      Pleasantville (film)
      Pleasantville is a 1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Marley Shelton and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Jane Kaczmarek, and J. T. Walsh are also featured.The film...

    • Tom Sanders (Art Direction); Lisa Dean Kavanaugh (Set Decoration) – Saving Private Ryan
      Saving Private Ryan
      Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....

    • Eugenio Zanetti
      Eugenio Zanetti
      Eugenio Zanetti is an Argentine dramatist, painter, film set designer, and theater and opera director.Zanetti was born in Córdoba, Argentina...

       (Art Direction); Cindy Carr
      Cindy Carr
      Cindy Carr is an American set decorator. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* The Fisher King * What Dreams May Come -External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – What Dreams May Come
      What Dreams May Come (film)
      What Dreams May Come is a 1998 American supernatural drama film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Annabella Sciorra. The film is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson, and was directed by Vincent Ward. The title is taken from a line in Hamlet's To be, or not to...


  • 1999: Rick Heinrichs
    Rick Heinrichs
    Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known to have worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk and The Nightmare Before Christmas...

     (Art Direction); Peter Young
    Peter Young (set decorator)
    Peter Young is a set decorator. He has won two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Batman and Sleepy Hollow.-Selected filmography:* Batman * Sleepy Hollow -External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – Sleepy Hollow
    Sleepy Hollow (film)
    Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones,...

    • Luciana Arrighi
      Luciana Arrighi
      Luciana Arrighi is an Italian production designer. She won an Academy Award for the film Howards End in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (Art Direction); Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker
      Ian Whittaker is an American set decorator. He has won an Academy Award and has been nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

       (Set Decoration) – Anna and the King
      Anna and the King
      Anna and the King is a 1999 biographical drama film loosely based on Anna and the King of Siam, the story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th century...

    • David Gropman (Art Direction); Beth Rubino
      Beth Rubino
      Beth A. Rubino is an American film art director. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction twice for her set decoration: in 1999 for The Cider House Rules and in 2008 for American Gangster...

       (Set Decoration) – The Cider House Rules
      The Cider House Rules (film)
      The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four other nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards...

    • Roy Walker
      Roy Walker (production designer)
      Roy Walker is a production designer. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Walker won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for two more:Won...

       (Art Direction); Bruno Cesari
      Bruno Cesari
      Bruno Cesari was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Talented Mr. Ripley
      The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)
      The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella. It is an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith 1955 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed as Plein Soleil .The film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Gwyneth...

    • Eve Stewart (Art Direction); John Bush and Eve Stewart (Set Decoration) – Topsy-Turvy
      Topsy-Turvy
      Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 musical drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and stars Allan Corduner as Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert, along with Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert...


2000s

  • 2000
    73rd Academy Awards
    The 73rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 2000 and was held on March 25, 2001. It was the last Academy Awards to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium...

    : Tim Yip (Art Direction) – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...

    • Arthur Max
      Arthur Max
      Arthur Max is an American movie art director and Production Designer. He has been nominated for Academy Awards twice: once for his work on Gladiator and another for his Production Design on American Gangster...

       (Art Direction); Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis
      Crispian Sallis is a British art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Aliens, Driving Miss Daisy and Gladiator.-Selected filmography:* Aliens...

       (Set Decoration) – Gladiator
      Gladiator (2000 film)
      Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...

    • Michael Corenblith
      Michael Corenblith
      Michael Corenblith is an art director and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Apollo 13 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas -External links:...

       (Art Direction); Merideth Boswell
      Merideth Boswell
      Merideth Boswell is a set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Apollo 13 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas -External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    • Martin Childs
      Martin Childs
      Martin Childs, M.B.E., , is a British production designer. He won the 1998 Academy Award for best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Shakespeare in Love, and was nominated for the 2001 Academy Award...

       (Art Direction); Jill Quertier (Set Decoration) – Quills
      Quills
      Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at...

    • Jean Rabasse
      Jean Rabasse
      Jean Rabasse, born in 1961 in Tlemcen, French Algeria, is a French cinema set decorator and scenographer.-Biography:Jean Rabasse has long worked with the DCA Company of Philippe Decouflé for whom he created stage objects and machines...

       (Art Direction); Françoise Benoît-Fresco (Set Decoration) – Vatel
      Vatel (film)
      Vatel is a 2000 film based on the life of 17th century French chef François Vatel, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, and Tim Roth. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration. The film opened the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-...


  • 2001
    74th Academy Awards
    The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2001 and took place March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. It was the first ceremony to take place...

    : Catherine Martin
    Catherine Martin
    Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.-Biography:Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School...

     (Art Direction); Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration) – Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...

    • Aline Bonetto
      Aline Bonetto
      Aline Bonetto is a French production designer and set decorator, best known for her work with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on films such as Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, and Micmacs à tire-larigot, among others...

       (Art Direction); Marie-Laure Valla
      Marie-Laure Valla
      Marie-Laure Valla is a French set dresser and set decorator. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Amélie .-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Amélie
      Amélie
      Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...

    • Stephen Altman (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock
      Anna Pinnock
      Anna Pinnock is a set decorator. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award:* Gosford Park - Nominated* The Golden Compass - Nominated-References:...

       (Set Decoration) – Gosford Park
      Gosford Park
      Gosford Park is a 2001 British-American mystery comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, and Michael Gambon...

    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

       (Art Direction); Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan is a set decorator. She is best known for working on all Harry Potter films to date. She picked up three Academy Award nominations for the first, fourth, and seventh films in the series. She won an Oscar, though, in 1996 for The English Patient, an award which she shared with...

       (Set Decoration) – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
      Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
      Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. The film is the first instalment in the Harry Potter film series,...

    • Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah (Set Decoration) – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

  • 2002
    75th Academy Awards
    The 75th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted for the second time by Steve Martin....

    : John Myhre
    John Myhre
    John Myhre is an American production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers...

     (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration) – Chicago
    Chicago (2002 film)
    Chicago is a 2002 musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz-age Chicago....

    • Felipe Fernández del Paso (Art Direction); Hannia Robledo (Set Decoration) – Frida
      Frida
      Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....

    • Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti
      Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

       (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

       (Set Decoration) – Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...

    • Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration) – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    • Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...


  • 2003
    76th Academy Awards
    The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2003 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 29, 2004 . The show was produced by Joe Roth and was hosted for the eighth time by comedian Billy Crystal.The...

    : Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration) – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...

    • Ben Van Os
      Ben Van Os
      Ben Van Os is a Dutch production designer and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* Orlando * Girl with a Pearl Earring -External links:...

       (Art Direction); Cecile Heideman (Set Decoration) – Girl with a Pearl Earring
      Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
      Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Cillian Murphy. The film is named after a painting of the same...

    • Lilly Kilvert
      Lilly Kilvert
      Lilly Kilvert is an American production designer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-External links:...

       (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau
      Gretchen Rau
      Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry...

       (Set Decoration) – The Last Samurai
      The Last Samurai
      The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan. The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward, who had previously filmed the movie in 1990, starring...

    • William Sandell (Art Direction); Robert Gould
      Robert Gould
      Robert Gould was a significant voice in Restoration poetry in England.He was born in the lower classes and orphaned when he was thirteen. It is possible that he had a sister, but her name and fate are unknown. Gould entered into domestic service...

       (Set Decoration) – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
      Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
      Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios...

    • Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Oppewall
      Jeannine Claudia Oppewall is an American film art director. She has worked on more than 30 movies in such roles as art decorator, set decorator and production designer, and has four Academy Award nominations for Best Art Design for L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit and The Good Shepherd...

       (Art Direction); Leslie Pope (Set Decoration) – Seabiscuit
      Seabiscuit (film)
      Seabiscuit is a 2003 American biographical film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand...


  • 2004
    77th Academy Awards
    The 77th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2004 and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock.The nominees were announced on January 25, 2005...

    : Dante Ferretti
    Dante Ferretti
    Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

     (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
    Francesca Lo Schiavo
    Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

     (Set Decoration) – The Aviator
    • Gemma Jackson (Art Direction); Trisha Edwards (Set Decoration) – Finding Neverland
      Finding Neverland
      Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...

    • Rick Heinrichs
      Rick Heinrichs
      Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known to have worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk and The Nightmare Before Christmas...

       (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik is a set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* A Little Princess * The Birdcage * Men in Black...

       (Set Decoration) – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    • Anthony Pratt
      Anthony D. G. Pratt
      Anthony D. G. Pratt is a British production designer from London, England. He is the great nephew of William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff and the nephew of actress Gillian Pratt Anthony D. G. Pratt (born 27 November 1937) is a British production designer from London, England. He is...

       (Art Direction); Celia Bobak (Set Decoration) – The Phantom of the Opera
      The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)
      The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux....

    • Aline Bonetto
      Aline Bonetto
      Aline Bonetto is a French production designer and set decorator, best known for her work with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on films such as Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, and Micmacs à tire-larigot, among others...

       (Art Direction) – A Very Long Engagement
      A Very Long Engagement
      A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...


  • 2005
    78th Academy Awards
    The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005 and were held on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, with Tom Kane making his first appearance as the show's announcer...

    : John Myhre
    John Myhre
    John Myhre is an American production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers...

     (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau
    Gretchen Rau
    Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry...

     (Set Decoration; posthumous award) – Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

    • Jim Bissell (Art Direction); Jan Pascale (Set Decoration) – Good Night, and Good Luck.
      Good Night, and Good Luck.
      Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S...

    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

       (Art Direction); Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan is a set decorator. She is best known for working on all Harry Potter films to date. She picked up three Academy Award nominations for the first, fourth, and seventh films in the series. She won an Oscar, though, in 1996 for The English Patient, an award which she shared with...

       (Set Decoration) – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
      Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
      Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman...

    • Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) – King Kong
      King Kong (2005 film)
      King Kong is a 2005 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name and stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Andy Serkis, through performance capture, portrays Kong....

    • Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood is an art director. She has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, in 2006 for Pride and Prejudice, in 2008 for Atonement, and in 2010 for Sherlock Holmes.-References:...

       (Art Direction); Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer is a set director. She has been nominated for an Academy Award thrice: for her set directing in Pride and Prejudice and Atonement; and for her set decoration in Sherlock Holmes. She has worked many films and T.V series with Sarah Greenwood.- External links :...

       (Set Decoration) – Pride & Prejudice

  • 2006
    79th Academy Awards
    The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the best films of 2006 and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.The nominees were...

    : Eugenio Caballero
    Eugenio Caballero
    Eugenio Caballero is a Mexican production designer who won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Art Direction with Pilar Revuelta in 2007 for the film Pans Labyrinth ....

     (Art Direction); Pilar Revuelta
    Pilar Revuelta
    Pilar Revuelta won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Art Direction with Eugenio Caballero.-External links:...

     (Set Decoration) – Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...

    • John Myhre
      John Myhre
      John Myhre is an American production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers...

       (Art Direction); Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – Dreamgirls
      Dreamgirls (film)
      Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...

    • Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Gretchen Rau
      Gretchen Rau
      Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry...

      , Leslie E. Rollins – The Good Shepherd
      The Good Shepherd (film)
      The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the...

    • Rick Heinrichs
      Rick Heinrichs
      Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known to have worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk and The Nightmare Before Christmas...

       (Art Direction); Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik
      Cheryl Carasik is a set decorator. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* A Little Princess * The Birdcage * Men in Black...

       (Set Decoration) – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by...

    • Nathan Crowley (Art Direction); Julie Ochipinti (Set Decoration) – The Prestige
      The Prestige (film)
      The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century...


  • 2007
    80th Academy Awards
    The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...

    : Dante Ferretti
    Dante Ferretti
    Dante Ferretti is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford...

     (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo
    Francesca Lo Schiavo
    Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, winning twice, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director...

     (Set Decoration) – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    • Arthur Max
      Arthur Max
      Arthur Max is an American movie art director and Production Designer. He has been nominated for Academy Awards twice: once for his work on Gladiator and another for his Production Design on American Gangster...

       (Art Direction) and Beth A. Rubino (Set Decoration) – American Gangster
    • Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood is an art director. She has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, in 2006 for Pride and Prejudice, in 2008 for Atonement, and in 2010 for Sherlock Holmes.-References:...

       (Art Direction) and Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer is a set director. She has been nominated for an Academy Award thrice: for her set directing in Pride and Prejudice and Atonement; and for her set decoration in Sherlock Holmes. She has worked many films and T.V series with Sarah Greenwood.- External links :...

       (Set Decoration) – Atonement
      Atonement (film)
      Atonement is a 2007 British romantic suspense war film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006...

    • Dennis Gassner (Art Direction) and Anna Pinnock
      Anna Pinnock
      Anna Pinnock is a set decorator. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award:* Gosford Park - Nominated* The Golden Compass - Nominated-References:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Golden Compass
    • Jack Fisk
      Jack Fisk
      Jack Fisk is an American movie industry professional, frequently working as either a production designer or art director on Hollywood movies.Fisk met Sissy Spacek when working on Terrence Malick's 1973 movie Badlands...

       (Art Direction) and Jim Erickson
      Jim Erickson
      James "Jim" Erickson is a set decorator. He is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in There Will Be Blood. He has also done set decoration for Ali and Independence Day.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – There Will Be Blood
      There Will Be Blood
      There Will Be Blood is a 2007 drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!. It tells the story of a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and...


  • 2008
    81st Academy Awards
    The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2008 and took place February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST...

    : Donald Graham Burt
    Donald Graham Burt
    Donald Graham Burt is a film production designer. He has worked on multiple films including The Joy Luck Club, Dangerous Minds, and Donnie Brasco, as well as with David Fincher on Zodiac in 2007...

     (Art Direction) and Victor J. Zolfo
    Victor J. Zolfo
    Victor J. Zolfo is a set decorator who has worked in the film industry since the late 1980s. Zolfo won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, sharing the awards for the film with art director and...

     (Set Decoration) – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

    • James J. Murakami (Art Direction) and Gary Fettis
      Gary Fettis
      Gary Fettis is an American set decorator. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:* The Godfather Part III * Changeling -External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – Changeling
    • Nathan Crowley (Art Direction) and Peter Lando (Set Decoration) – The Dark Knight
      The Dark Knight (film)
      The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...

    • Michael Carlin (Art Direction) and Rebecca Alleway (Set Decoration) – The Duchess
      The Duchess (film)
      The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK...

    • Kristi Zea (Art Direction) and Debra Schutt (Set Decoration) – Revolutionary Road
      Revolutionary Road (film)
      Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes, from screenplay by Justin Haythe, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates....


  • 2009
    82nd Academy Awards
    The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...

    : Rick Carter
    Rick Carter
    Rick Carter is an American production designer and art director. He is known for his work in the film Forrest Gump, which earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in Amistad and A.I. Artificial Intelligence...

     and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction), Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration) – Avatar
    • Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro (Art Direction); Caroline Smith (Set Decoration) – The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
      The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
      The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows a traveling theater troupe whose leader, having made a bet with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations...

    • John Myhre
      John Myhre
      John Myhre is an American production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers...

       (Art Direction) and Gordon Sim (Set Decoration) – Nine
      Nine (film)
      Nine is a 2009 musical-romantic film directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 musical of the same name, which was itself suggested by Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½...

    • Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood
      Sarah Greenwood is an art director. She has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, in 2006 for Pride and Prejudice, in 2008 for Atonement, and in 2010 for Sherlock Holmes.-References:...

       (Art Direction) and Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer
      Katie Spencer is a set director. She has been nominated for an Academy Award thrice: for her set directing in Pride and Prejudice and Atonement; and for her set decoration in Sherlock Holmes. She has worked many films and T.V series with Sarah Greenwood.- External links :...

       (Set Decoration) – Sherlock Holmes
      Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
      Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 action-mystery film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon...

    • Patrice Vermette
      Patrice Vermette
      Patrice Vermette is a Canadian production designer/art director who has won three awards for his work on C.R.A.Z.Y., the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and a Jutra Award for Best Art Direction. His other work includes 1981, La Cité, Café de Flore and The Young...

       (Art Direction) and Maggie Gray
      Maggie Gray
      Maggie Gray is an English set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Brazil and again in 2010 for her work in The Young Victoria.-External links:...

       (Set Decoration) – The Young Victoria
      The Young Victoria
      The Young Victoria is a 2009 period drama film based on the early life and reign of Queen Victoria, and her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The film was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by screenwriter Julian Fellowes. Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Sarah, Duchess of...


2010s

  • 2010
    83rd Academy Awards
    The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...

    : Robert Stromberg (Art Direction) and Karen O'Hara
    Karen O'Hara
    Karen O'Hara is an American art director. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Alice in Wonderland and was nominated for another one for The Color of Money.-Selected filmography:* The Color of Money...

     (Set Decoration) – Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
    Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...

    • Stuart Craig
      Stuart Craig
      Norman Stuart Craig OBE is a noted British production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date. At Potter author J. K...

       (Art Direction) and Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan
      Stephanie McMillan is a set decorator. She is best known for working on all Harry Potter films to date. She picked up three Academy Award nominations for the first, fourth, and seventh films in the series. She won an Oscar, though, in 1996 for The English Patient, an award which she shared with...

       (Set Decoration) – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
    • Guy Hendrix Dyas
      Guy Hendrix Dyas
      Guy Hendrix Dyas, Production Designer, most recently collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his ambitious science fiction thriller “Inception” which earned him an Academy Award Nomination®™ as well as a BAFTA award for best Production Design...

       (Art Direction) and Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration) – Inception
      Inception
      Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...

    • Eve Stewart (Art Direction) and Judy Farr (Set Decoration) – The King's Speech
    • Jess Gonchor (Art Direction) and Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) – True Grit
      True Grit (2010 film)
      True Grit is a 2010 American Western film written and directed by the Coen brothers. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as U.S....

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