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.

1950s

• 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Boulevard
• Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - All About Eve
• Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - The Red Danube
• 1950 Color Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson and Delilah
• Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Annie Get Your Gun
• Ernst Fegte, George Sawley - Destination Moon
• 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day, George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode - Fourteen Hours
• Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - House on Telegraph Hill
• Jean d'Eaubonne - La Ronde
• Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore - Too Young to Kiss
• 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - An American in Paris
• Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - David and Bathsheba
• Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - On the Riviera
• William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt - Quo Vadis
• Hein Heckroth - Tales of Hoffmann
• 1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - The Bad and the Beautiful
• Emile Kuri - Carrie
• Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott - My Cousin Rachel
• Matsuyama H. Matsumoto - Rashomon
• Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter - Viva Zapata!
• 1952 Color Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
• Richard Day, Antoni Clavé, Howard Bristol - Hans Christian Andersen
• Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - The Merry Widow
• Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy, Jr., Charles Thompson - The Quiet Man
• Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• 1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Julius Caesar
• Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz - Martin Luther
• Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Paul S. Fox - The President's Lady
• Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler - Roman Holiday
• Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Stuart Reiss - Titanic
• 1953 Color Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The Robe
• Alfred Junge, Hans Peters. John Jarvis - Knights of the Round Table
• Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - Lili
• Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore - The Story of Three Loves
• Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Young Bess
• 1954 Black-and-White Richard Day - On the Waterfront
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - The Country Girl
• Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri - Executive Suite
• Max Ophuls - Le Plaisir
• Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sabrina
• 1954 Color John Meehan, Emile Kuri - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
• Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Desirée
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Red Garters
• Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff, George James Hopkins - A Star Is Born
• 1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - The Rose Tattoo
• Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace - Blackboard Jungle
• Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt - I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera - The Man With the Golden Arm
• Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley - Marty
• 1955 Color William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley - Picnic
• Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Daddy Long Legs
• Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol - Guys and Dolls
• Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - To Catch a Thief
• 1956 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason - Somebody Up There Likes Me
• Takashi Matsuyama - The Magnificent Seven
• Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy - The Proud and the Profane
• Ross Bellah, William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage - The Solid Gold Cadillac
• Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Teenage Rebel
• 1956 Color Lyle R. Wheeler, John Decuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The King and I
• James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam, Ross J. Dowd - Around the World in Eighty Days
• Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst - Giant
• Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason - Lust for Life
• Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - The Ten Commandments

For 1957 films this award became a single award.

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• 1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara
• Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Funny Face
• William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Les Girls
• Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage - Pal Joey
• William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Raintree County
• 1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason - Gigi
• Malcolm Bert, George James Hopkins - Auntie Mame
• Cary Odell, Louis Diage - Bell, Book and Candle
• Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - A Certain Smile
• Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Samuel M. Comer, Frank McKelvy - Vertigo

With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two

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• 1959 Black-and-White Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - The Diary of Anne Frank
• Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams, - Career
• Carl Anderson, William Kiernan - The Last Angry Man
• Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle - Some Like It Hot
• Oliver Messel, William Kellner, Scot Slimon - Suddenly, Last Summer
• 1959 Color William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt - Ben-Hur
• John De Cuir, Julia Heron - The Big Fisherman
• Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal. Walter M. Scott, Joseph Kish - Journey to the Center of the Earth
• William A. Horning, Robert Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy - North by Northwest
• Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt - Pillow Talk