Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

1930s

• 1930 Herman Rosse - King of Jazz
• William Cameron Menzies - Bulldog Drummond
• Hans Dreier - The Love Parade
• Jack Okey - Sally
• Hans Dreier - The Vagabond King
• 1931 Max Ree - Cimarron
• Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras - Just Imagine
• Hans Dreier - Morocco
• Anton Grot - Svengali
• Richard Day - Whoopee
• 1932 Gordon Wiles - Transatlantic
• Lazare Meerson - A Nous la liberté
• Richard Day - Arrowsmith
• 1933 William S. Darling - Cavalcade
• Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - A Farewell to Arms
• Cedric Gibbons - When Ladies Meet
• 1934 Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope - The Merry Widow
• Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark - The Gay Divorcee
• Richard Day - Affairs of Cellini
• 1935 Richard Day - The Dark Angel
• Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Carroll Clark, Van Nest Polglase - Top Hat
• 1936 Richard Day - Dodsworth
• Anton Grot - Anthony Adverse
• Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis - The Great Ziegfeld
• William S. Darling - Lloyd's of London
• Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson - The Magnificent Brute
• Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis - Romeo and Juliet
• Perry Ferguson - Winterset
• 1937 Stephen Goosson - Lost Horizon
• Cedric Gibbons, William Horning - Conquest
• Carroll Clark - A Damsel in Distress
• Richard Day - Dead End
• Ward Ihnen - Every Day's a Holiday
• Anton Grot - The Life of Emile Zola
• John Victor MacKay - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
• Lyle Wheeler - The Prisoner of Zenda
• Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Souls at Sea
• Alexander Toluboff - Vogues of 1938
• William S. Darling, David Hall - Wee Willie Winkie
• Jack Otterson - You're a Sweetheart
• 1938 Carl J. Weyl - The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Lyle Wheeler - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Bernard Herzbrun, Boris Leven - Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Alexander Toluboff - Algiers
• Van Nest Polglase - Carefree
• Richard Day - Goldwyn Follies
• Stephen Goosson, Lionel Banks - Holiday
• Hans Dreier, John Goodman - If I Were King
• Jack Otterson - Mad About Music
• Cedric Gibbons - Marie Antoinette
• Charles D. Hall - Merrily We Live
• 1939 Lyle Wheeler - Gone with the Wind
• Hans Dreier, Robert Odell - Beau Geste
• Charles D. Hall - Captain Fury
• Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina - First Love
• Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman - Love Affair
• John Victor Mackay - Man of Conquest
• Lionel Banks - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Anton Grot - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• William Darling, George Dudley - The Rains Came
• Alexander Toluboff - Stagecoach
• Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning - The Wizard of Oz
• James Basevi - Wuthering Heights

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

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