A list of films that won and were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design. The award was known as Best Art Direction until 2012.
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1927- 1939
- 1927-28: The Dove and Tempest (winners)
- 1928-29: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (winner)
- Alibi
- The Awakening
- Dynamite
- The Patriot
- Street Angel
- 1929-30: King of Jazz (winner)
- Bulldog Drummond
- The Love Parade
- Sally
- The Vagabond King
- 1930-31: Cimarron (winner)
- Just Imagine
- Morocco
- Svengali
- Whoopee!
- 1931-32: Transatlantic (winner)
- Arrowsmith
- À Nous la Liberté
- 1932-33: Cavalcade (winner)
- A Farewell to Arms
- When Ladies Meet
- 1934: The Merry Widow (winner)
- The Affairs of Cellini
- The Gay Divorcee
- 1935: The Dark Angel (winner)
- 1936: Dodsworth (winner)
- Anthony Adverse
- The Great Ziegfeld
- Lloyd's of London
- The Magnificent Brute
- Romeo and Juliet
- Winterset
- 1937: Lost Horizon (winner)
- Conquest
- A Damsel in Distress
- Dead End
- Every Day's a Holiday
- The Life of Émile Zola
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- Souls at Sea
- Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
- Wee Willie Winkie
- You're a Sweetheart
- 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (winner)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Algiers
- Carefree
- The Goldwyn Follies
- Holiday
- If I Were King
- Mad About Music
- Marie Antoinette
- Merrily We Live
- 1939: Gone with the Wind (winner)
- Beau Geste
- Captain Fury
- First Love
- Love Affair
- Man of Conquest
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- The Rains Came
- Stagecoach
- The Wizard of Oz
- Wuthering Heights
1940- 1949
- 1940:
- Black-and-white: Pride and Prejudice (winner)
- Arise, My Love
- Arizona
- The Boys from Syracuse
- Dark Command
- Foreign Correspondent
- Lillian Russell
- My Favorite Wife
- My Son, My Son!
- Our Town
- Rebecca
- The Sea Hawk
- The Westerner
- Color: The Thief of Bagdad (1940) (winner)
- Bitter Sweet
- Down Argentine Way
- North West Mounted Police
- Black-and-white: Pride and Prejudice (winner)
- 1941:
- Black-and-white: How Green Was My Valley (winner)
- Citizen Kane
- The Flame of New Orleans
- Hold Back the Dawn
- Ladies in Retirement
- The Little Foxes
- Sergeant York
- The Son of Monte Cristo
- Sundown
- That Hamilton Woman
- When Ladies Meet
- Color: Blossoms in the Dust (winner)
- Blood and Sand
- Louisiana Purchase
- Black-and-white: How Green Was My Valley (winner)
- 1942:
- Black-and-white: This Above All (winner)
- George Washington Slept Here
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Random Harvest
- The Shanghai Gesture
- Silver Queen
- Take a Letter, Darling
- The Spoilers
- The Talk of the Town
- Color: My Gal Sal (winner)
- Arabian Nights
- Captains of the Clouds
- Jungle Book
- Reap the Wild Wind
- Black-and-white: This Above All (winner)
- 1943:
- Black-and-white: The Song of Bernadette (winner)
- Five Graves to Cairo
- Flight for Freedom
- Madame Curie
- Mission to Moscow
- The North Star
- Color: Phantom of the Opera (winner)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Gang's All Here
- This Is the Army
- Thousands Cheer
- Black-and-white: The Song of Bernadette (winner)
- 1944:
- Black-and-white: Gaslight (winner)
- Address Unknown
- The Adventures of Mark Twain
- Casanova Brown
- Laura
- No Time for Love
- Since You Went Away
- Step Lively
- Color: Wilson (winner)
- Black-and-white: Gaslight (winner)
- 1945:
- Black-and-white: Blood on the Sun (winner)
- Experiment Perilous
- The Keys of the Kingdom
- Love Letters
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Color: Frenchman's Creek (winner)
- Leave Her to Heaven
- National Velvet
- San Antonio
- A Thousand and One Nights
- Black-and-white: Blood on the Sun (winner)
- 1946:
- Black-and-white: Anna and the King of Siam (winner)
- Kitty
- The Razor's Edge
- Color: The Yearling (winner)
- Black-and-white: Anna and the King of Siam (winner)
- 1947:
- Black-and-white: Great Expectations (1946) (winner)
- The Foxes of Harrow
- Color: Black Narcissus (winner)
- Black-and-white: Great Expectations (1946) (winner)
- 1948:
- Black-and-white: Hamlet (1948) (winner)
- Color: The Red Shoes (1948) (winner)
- Joan of Arc
- 1949:
- Black-and-white: The Heiress (winner)
- Come to the Stable
- Madame Bovary
- Color: Little Women (winner)
- Adventures of Don Juan
- Saraband
- Black-and-white: The Heiress (winner)
1950- 1959
- 1950:
- Black-and-white: Sunset Boulevard(winner)
- All About Eve
- The Red Danube
- Color: Samson and Delilah (winner)
- Black-and-white: Sunset Boulevard(winner)
- 1951:
- Black-and-white: A Streetcar Named Desire (winner)
- Fourteen Hours
- The House on Telegraph Hill
- La Ronde
- Too Young To Kiss
- Color: An American in Paris (winner)
- David and Bathsheba
- On the Riviera
- Quo Vadis
- The Tales of Hoffmann
- Black-and-white: A Streetcar Named Desire (winner)
- 1952:
- Black-and-white: The Bad and the Beautiful (winner)
- Carrie
- My Cousin Rachel
- Rashomon
- Viva Zapata!
- Color: Moulin Rouge (winner)
- Hans Christian Andersen
- The Merry Widow
- The Quiet Man
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Black-and-white: The Bad and the Beautiful (winner)
- 1953:
- Black-and-white: Julius Caesar (winner)
- Martin Luther
- The President's Lady
- Roman Holiday
- Titanic
- Color: The Robe (winner)
- Knights of the Round Table
- Lili
- The Story of Three Loves
- Young Bess
- Black-and-white: Julius Caesar (winner)
- 1954:
- Black-and-white: On the Waterfront (winner)
- Color: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (winner)
- Brigadoon
- Desiree
- Red Garters
- A Star Is Born
- 1955:
- Black-and-white: The Rose Tattoo (winner)
- Blackboard Jungle
- I'll Cry Tomorrow
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Marty
- Color: Picnic (winner)
- Black-and-white: The Rose Tattoo (winner)
- 1956:
- Black-and-white: Somebody Up There Likes Me (winner)
- Seven Samurai
- The Proud and Profane
- The Solid Gold Cadillac
- Teenage Rebel
- Color: The King and I (winner)
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Giant
- Lust for Life
- The Ten Commandments
- Black-and-white: Somebody Up There Likes Me (winner)
- 1957: Sayonara (winner)
- Funny Face
- Les Girls
- Pal Joey
- Raintree Country
- 1958:
- Black-and-white: Gigi (winner)
- Auntie Mame
- Bell, Book and Candle
- A Certain Smile
- Vertigo
- Black-and-white: Gigi (winner)
- 1959:
- Black-and-white: The Diary of Anne Frank (winner)
- Career
- The Last Angry Man
- Some Like It Hot
- Suddenly, Last Summer
- Color: Ben-Hur (winner)
- The Big Fisherman
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- North By Northwest
- Pillow Talk
- Black-and-white: The Diary of Anne Frank (winner)
1960- 1969
- 1960:
- Black-and-white: The Apartment (winner)
- The Facts of Life
- Psycho
- Sons and Lovers
- Visit to a Small Planet
- Color: Spartacus (winner)
- Cimarron
- It Started in Naples
- Pepe
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Black-and-white: The Apartment (winner)
- 1961:
- Black-and-white: The Hustler (winner)
- Color: West Side Story (winner)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- El Cid
- Flower Drum Song
- Summer and Smoke
- 1962:
- Black-and-white: To Kill a Mockingbird (winner)
- Days of Wine and Roses
- The Longest Day
- Period of Adjustment
- The Pigeon That Took Rome
- Color: Lawrence of Arabia (winner)
- The Music Man
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- That Touch of Mink
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- Black-and-white: To Kill a Mockingbird (winner)
- 1963:
- Black-and-white: America America (winner)
- 8½
- Hud
- Love with the Proper Stranger
- Twilight of Honor
- Color: Cleopatra (winner)
- The Cardinal
- Come Blow Your Horn
- How the West Was Won
- Tom Jones
- Black-and-white: America America (winner)
- 1964:
- Black-and-white: Zorba the Greek (winner)
- The Americanization of Emily
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
- The Night of the Iguana
- Seven Days in May
- Color: My Fair Lady (winner)
- Becket
- Mary Poppins
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- What a Way to Go!
- Black-and-white: Zorba the Greek (winner)
- 1965:
- Black-and-white: Ship of Fools (winner)
- King Rat
- A Patch of Blue
- The Slender Thread
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Color: Doctor Zhivago (winner)
- Black-and-white: Ship of Fools (winner)
- 1966:
- Black-and-white: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (winner)
- The Fortune Cookie
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew
- Is Paris Burning?
- Mister Buddwing
- Color: Fantastic Voyage (winner)
- Black-and-white: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (winner)
- 1967: Camelot (winner)
- 1968: Oliver! (winner)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Shoes of the Fisherman
- Star!
- War and Peace
- 1969: Hello, Dolly! (winner)
1970- 1979
- 1970: Patton (winner)
- 1971: Nicholas and Alexandra (winner)
- 1972: Cabaret (winner)
- Lady Sings the Blues
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Travels with My Aunt
- Young Winston
- 1973: The Sting (winner)
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon
- The Exorcist
- Tom Sawyer
- The Way We Were
- 1974: The Godfather Part II (winner)
- 1975: Barry Lyndon (winner)
- The Hindenburg
- The Man Who Would be King
- Shampoo
- The Sunshine Boys
- 1976: All the President's Men (winner)
- The Incredible Sarah
- The Last Tycoon
- Logan's Run
- The Shootist
- 1977: Star Wars (winner)
- 1978: Heaven Can Wait (1978) (winner)
- The Brink's Job
- California Suite
- Interiors
- The Wiz
- 1979: All That Jazz (winner)
1980- 1989
- 1980: Tess (winner)
- 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (winner)
- 1982: Gandhi (winner)
- 1983: Fanny and Alexander (winner)
- 1984: Amadeus (winner)
- 1985: Out of Africa (winner)
- 1986: A Room with a View (winner)
- 1987: The Last Emperor (winner)
- 1988: Dangerous Liaisons (winner)
- 1989: Batman (winner)
1990- 1999
- 1990: Dick Tracy (winner)
- 1991: Bugsy (winner)
- 1992: Howards End (winner)
- 1993: Schindler's List (winner)
- 1994: The Madness of King George (winner)
- 1995: Restoration (winner)
- 1996: The English Patient (winner)
- 1997: Titanic (winner)
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love (winner)
- 1999: Sleepy Hollow (winner)
2000- 2009
- 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
- 2001: Moulin Rouge! (winner)
- 2002: Chicago (winner)
- 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (winner)
- 2004: The Aviator (winner)
- 2005: Memoirs of a Geisha (winner)
- 2006: Pan's Labyrinth (winner)
- 2007: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (winner)
- 2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (winner)
- 2009: Avatar (winner)
2010- 2019
- 2010: Alice in Wonderland (winner)
- 2011: Hugo (winner)
- 2012: Lincoln (winner)
- 2013: The Great Gatsby (winner)
- 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (winner)
- 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
- 2016: La La Land (winner)
- 2017: The Shape of Water (winner)
- 2018: Black Panther (winner)
- 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (winner)
2020- 2029
- 2020-21: Mank (winner)
- 2021: Dune (winner)
- 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
- 2023: Poor Things (winner)