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.

1970s

• 1970 Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thevenet - Patton
• Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Jack D. Moore, Mickey S. Michaels - Airport
• Tambi Larsen, Darrell Silvera - The Molly MaGuires
• Terry Marsh, Bob Cartwright, Pamela Cornell - Scrooge
• Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day, Taizoh Kawashima, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett, Carl Biddiscombe - Tora! Tora! Tora!
• 1971 John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon - Nicholas and Alexandra
• Boris Leven, William Tuntke, Ruby Levitt - The Andromeda Strain
• John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer, Peter Lamont - Fiddler on the Roof
• Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt - Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1972 Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel - Cabaret
• Carl Anderson, Reg Allen - Lady Sings the Blues
• William Creber, Raphael Bretton - The Poseidon Adventure
• John Box, Gil Parrondo, Robert W. Laing - Travels with My Aunt
• Don Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark, William Hutchinson, Peter James - Young Winston
• 1973 Henry Bumstead, James Payne - The Sting
• Lorenzo Mongiardino, Gianni Quaranta, Carmelo Patrono - Brother Sun, Sister Moon
• Bill Malley, Jerry Wunderlich - The Exorcist
• Philip Jefferies, Robert de Vestel - Tom Sawyer
• Stephen Grimes, William Kiernan - The Way We Were
• 1974 Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson - The Godfather Part II
• Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, Ruby Levitt - Chinatown
• Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Frank McKelvy - Earthquake
• Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Walter Tyler, Al Roelofs, Hal Gausman - The Island at the Top of the World
• William Creber, Ward Preston. Raphael Bretton - The Towering Inferno
• 1975 Ken Adam, Roy Walker, Vernon Dixon - Barry Lyndon
• Edward Carfagno, Frank McKelvy - The Hindenburg
• Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis, Peter James - The Man Who Would Be King
• Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, George Gaines - Shampoo
• Albert Brenner, Marvin March - The Sunshine Boys
• 1976 George Jenkins, George Gaines - All the President's Men
• Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds - The Incredible Sarah
• Gene Callahan, Jack Collis, Jerry Wunderlich - The Last Tycoon
• Dale Hennesy, Robert de Vestel - Logan's Run
• Robert F. Boyle, Arthur Jeph Parker - The Shootist
• 1977 John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian - Star Wars
• George C. Webb, Mickey S. Michaels - Airport '77
• Joe Alves, Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife - The Spy Who Loved Me
• Albert Brenner, Marvin March - The Turning Point
• 1978 Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines - Heaven Can Wait
• Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson
• Albert Brenner, Marvin March - California Suite
• Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert - Interiors
• Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller - The Wiz
• 1979 Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary Brink - All That Jazz
• Michael Seymour, Les Dilley, Roger Christian, Ian Whittaker - Alien
• Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson - Apocalypse Now
• George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker - The China Syndrome
• Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris, John Vallone, Linda Descenna - '