The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being renamed the Designers' branch. Since 1947, the award is shared with the set decorators. It is awarded to the best interior design in a film.
The films below are listed with their production year (for example, the 2000 Academy Award for Best Art Direction is given to a film from 1999). In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees in alphabetical order.
Superlatives
Winners and nominees
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Notes
Shortlisted finalists
Finalists for Best Production Design were selected by branch members, who voted for ten finalists which were screened to determine the five nominees.
Individuals with multiple wins
11 wins
Cedric Gibbons
8 wins
Edwin B. Willis
7 wins
Richard Day
6 wins
Thomas Little
Walter M. Scott
5 wins
Lyle R. Wheeler
4 wins
John Box
Samuel M. Comer
F. Keogh Gleason
George James Hopkins
3 wins
Edward Carfagno
Stuart Craig
William S. Darling
John DeCuir
Vernon Dixon
Hans Dreier
Dante Ferretti
Paul S. Fox
Alexander Golitzen
Paul Groesse
John Meehan
Ray Moyer
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Jack Martin Smith
2 wins
Ken Adam
E. Preston Ames
Herman A. Blumenthal
Henry Bumstead
Donald Graham Burt
Gene Callahan
Rick Carter
George Davis
Leslie Dilley
Michael D. Ford
George Gaines
Russell A. Gausman
Nancy Haigh
Harry Horner
William A. Horning
Hugh Hunt
Wiard Ihnen
Emile Kuri
Terence Marsh
Catherine Martin
William Cameron Menzies
Urie McCleary
John Myhre
Gil Parrondo
Robert Priestley
Stuart A. Reiss
Norman Reynolds
Dario Simoni
Robert Stromberg
Richard Sylbert
Shane Vieau
Joseph C. Wright
Peter Young
Individuals with multiple nominations
39 nominations
Cedric Gibbons
32 nominations
Edwin B. Willis
29 nominations
Lyle R. Wheeler
26 nominations
Samuel M. Comer
23 nominations
Hans Dreier
21 nominations
Thomas Little
Walter M. Scott
20 nominations
Richard Day
17 nominations
George Davis
15 nominations
Roland Anderson
14 nominations
Alexander Golitzen
13 nominations
Paul S. Fox
Henry Grace
George James Hopkins
Hugh Hunt
12 nominations
Ray Moyer
Joseph C. Wright
11 nominations
Stuart Craig
John DeCuir
Paul Groesse
10 nominations
Edward Carfagno
9 nominations
Howard Bristol
Dante Ferretti
Nancy Haigh
Boris Leven
Jack Martin Smith
Walter H. Tyler
8 nominations
E. Preston Ames
William A. Horning
Arthur Krams
Emile Kuri
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Jack Otterson
7 nominations
Lionel Banks
Edward G. Boyle
Carroll Clark
Nathan Crowley
William S. Darling
Dennis Gassner
Russell A. Gausman
F. Keogh Gleason
Sarah Greenwood
Frank R. McKelvy
Jack D. Moore
Darrell Silvera
Katie Spencer
6 nominations
John Box
Leland Fuller
Ted Haworth
William Kiernan
Urie McCleary
John Myhre
Anna Pinnock
Richard Pefferle
Van Nest Polglase
Stuart A. Reiss
Norman Reynolds
Richard Sylbert
5 nominations
Ken Adam
James Basevi
Albert Brenner
Cheryl Carasik
Rick Carter
Robert Clatworthy
Albert S. D'Agostino
Linda DeScenna
Leslie Dilley
Perry Ferguson
Hal Gausman
Stephen Goosson
Anton Grot
Dan Hennah
Julia Heron
Joseph Kish
Tambi Larsen
Grant Major
Marvin March
Stephenie McMillan
Hans Peters
Dean Tavoularis
4 nominations
Robert R. Benton
Robert F. Boyle
Raphaël Bretton
Henry Bumstead
Gene Callahan
Robert Cartwright
Ernst Fegté
Gary Fettis
Jack Fisk
Michael D. Ford
George Gaines
John B. Goodman
Peter Howitt
Angelo P. Graham
Vincent Korda
Peter Lamont
Garrett Lewis
Terence Marsh
Catherine Martin
Arthur Max
George R. Nelson
Karen O'Hara
Jeannine Oppewall
Dario Simoni
Eve Stewart
Adam Stockhausen
Patrice Vermette
Shane Vieau
George C. Webb
Bo Welch
Ian Whittaker
3 nominations
Gene Allen
Luciana Arrighi
Mel Bourne
Patrizia von Brandenstein
John Bryan
W. Stewart Campbell
Claude E. Carpenter
Edward Carrere
William J. Creber
Vernon Dixon
Randall Duell
A. Roland Fields
Norman Garwood
Piero Gherardi
Stephen B. Grimes
Jay Hart
Rick Heinrichs
Dale Hennesy
Harry Horner
John Hughes
Wiard Ihnen
Mark-Lee Kirk
Ruby R. Levitt
Santo Loquasto
Josie MacAvin
John Victor Mackay
Fred M. MacLean
Joseph McMillan Johnson
John Meehan
William Cameron Menzies
George Milo
Yoshirō Muraki
Cary Odell
Gil Parrondo
James W. Payne
Robert Priestley
Gianni Quaranta
Maurice Ransford
Gretchen Rau
Casey Roberts
Crispian Sallis
Lee Sandales
Hugh Scaife
Elliot Scott
Gordon Sim
Rudolph Sternad
Alexander Toluboff
Frank Tuttle
Robert Usher
Roy Walker
Ira S. Webb
2 nominations
Carl Anderson
Ernest Archer
Fay Babcock
Hannah Beachler
Judy Becker
Malcolm C. Bert
Carl Biddiscombe
Celia Bobak
Aline Bonetto
Merideth Boswell
Simon Bright
Brigitte Broch
Malcolm Brown
Donald Graham Burt
Eugenio Caballero
Anthony Carlino
Cindy Carr
Maurice Carter
Daniel B. Cathcart
Bruno Cesari
Roger Christian
Harry Cordwell
Michael Corenblith
Lionel Couch
Fiona Crombie
Suzie Davies
Lisa Dean
Rena DeAngelo
George DeTitta Jr.
Robert De Vestel
Tamara Deverell
Carmen Dillon
Ross Dowd
Raoul Pene Du Bois
Beverley Dunn
Guy Hendrix Dyas
Peter Ellenshaw
Jim Erickson
Alice Felton
William Ferrari
Victor A. Gangelin
Jess Gonchor
Robert Gould
Bertram C. Granger
Maggie Gray
John Graysmark
Grace Gregory
David Gropman
Pierre Guffroy
Robert M. Haas
David S. Hall
Hein Heckroth
Addison Hehr
Walter Holscher
Fredric Hope
Frank E. Hughes
Peter James
George C. Jenkins
Carol Joffe
Alfred Junge
Nathan Juran
William Kellner
Lilly Kilvert
Robert W. Laing
Harry Lange
Alan Lee
Kathy Lucas
John B. Mansbridge
Ted Marshall
Florencia Martin
So Matsuyama
John McCarthy Jr.
Jack McConaghy
Patrick McLoughlin
Mickey S. Michaels
Harold Michelson
Lorenzo Mongiardino
Martin Obzina
Jack Okey
Harry Oliver
Ben Van Os
Arthur Jeph Parker
Jan Pascale
Anthony D. G. Pratt
Jill Quertier
Norman Rockett
Jan Roelfs
Philip Rosenberg
Beth Rubino
Thomas E. Sanders
George Sawley
Ferdinando Scarfiotti
John DuCasse Schulze
Michael Seirton
Gene Serdena
Paul Sheriff
Rick Simpson
Ted Smith
Jack Stephens
Edward Stewart
Robert Stromberg
Paul Sylbert
Charles S. Thompson
Alexandre Trauner
William H. Tuntke
Tony Walton
Elven Webb
Carl Jules Weyl
Adam Willis
Joanne Woollard
Jerry Wunderlich
Peter Young
Eugenio Zanetti
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