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.

1960s

• 1960 Black-and-White Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle - The Apartment
• Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid, Ross Dowd - The Facts of Life
• Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo - Psycho
• Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch - Sons and Lovers
• Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - Visit to a Small Planet
• 1960 Color Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron - Spartacus
• George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel - Cimarron
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Arrigo Breschi - It Started in Naples
• Ted Haworth, William Kiernan - Pepe
• Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins - Sunrise at Campobello
• 1961 Black-and-White Harry Horner, Gene Callahan - The Hustler
• Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - The Absent-Minded Professor
• Fernando Carrere, Edward G. Boyle - The Children's Hour
• Rudolf Sternad, George Milo - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Piero Gherardi - La Dolce Vita
• 1961 Color Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin - West Side Story
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Veniero Colasanti, John Moore - El Cid
• Alexander Golitzen, Joseph Wright, Howard Bristol - Flower Drum Song
• Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - Summer and Smoke
• 1962 Black-and-White Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Joseph Wright, George James Hopkins - Days of Wine and Roses
• Ted Haworth, Leon Barasa, Vincent Korda, Gabriel Bechir - The Longest Day
• George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno, Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle - Period of Adjustment
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy - The Pigeon That Took Rome
• 1962 Color John Box, John Stoll, Dario Simoni - Lawrence of Arabia
• Paul Groesse, George James Hopkins - The Music Man
• George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Mutiny on the Bounty
• Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo - That Touch of Mink
• George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno, Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
• 1963 Black-and-White Gene Callahan - America America
• Piero Gherardi - 81/2
• Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Robert R. Benton - Hud
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - Love With the Proper Stranger
• George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Twilight of Honor
• 1963 Color John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer - Cleopatra
• Lyle Wheeler, Gene Callahan - The Cardinal
• Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, James Payne - Come Blow Your Horn
• George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr., Jack Mills - How the West Was Won
• Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert, Josie MacAvin - Tom Jones
• 1964 Black-and-White Vassilis Fotopoulos - Zorba the Greek
• George W. Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott, Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton - The Americanization of Emily
• William Glasgow, Raphael Bretton - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Stephen Grimes - The Night of the Iguana
• Cary Odell, Edward G. Boyle - Seven Days in May
• 1964 Color Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins - My Fair Lady
• John Bryan, Maurice Carter, Patrick McLoyghlin, Robert Cartwright - Becket
• Carroll Clark, William H, Tuntke, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - Mary Poppins
• George W. Davis, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• Jack Martin Smith, Ted Haworth, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - What a Way to Go
• 1965 Black-and-White Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish - Ship of Fools
• Robert Emmet Smith, Frank Tuttle - King Rat
• George W. Davis, Urie McCleary, Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson - A Patch of Blue
• Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin, Robert Benton, Joseph Kish - The Slender Thread
• Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Edward Marshall, Josie MacAvin - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• 1965 Color John Box, Terry Marsh, Dario Simoni - Doctor Zhivago
• John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Dario Simoni - The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Richard Day, William Creber, David Hall, Ray Moyer, Fred MacLean, Norman Rockett - The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Robert Clatworthy, George James Hopkins - Inside Daisy Clover
• Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt - The Sound of Music
• 1966 Black-and-White Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Robert Luthardt, Edward G. Boyle - The Fortune Cookie
• Luigi Scaccianoce - The Gospel According to St. Matthew
• Willy Holt, Marc Frederix, Pierre Guffroy - Is Paris Burning?
• George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt - Mister Buddwing
• 1966 Color Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Fantastic Voyage
• Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, John McCarthy, John Austin - Gambit
• Piero Gherardi - Juliet of the Spirits
• Hal Pereira, Arthur Lonergan, Robert Benton, James Payne - The Oscar
• Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, John Sturtevant, William Kiernan - The Sand Pebbles

For 1967 the two awards in this category were recombined into a single award.

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• 1967 John Truscott, Edward Carrere, John W. Brown - Camelot
• Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Doctor Dolittle
• Robert Clatworthy, Frank Tuttle - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani, Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi - The Taming of the Shrew
• Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Howard Bristol - Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 1968 John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston - Oliver!
• George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno - The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol - Star!
• Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer - '
• Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, Georgi Koshelev, Vladimir Uvarov - War and Peace
• 1969 John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton - Hello, Dolly!
• Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch, Patrick McLoughlin - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Robert Boyle, George B. Chan, Edward Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe - Gaily, Gaily
• Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Jack D. Moore - Sweet Charity
• Harry Horner, Frank McKelvy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?