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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design, introduced at the awards debut in 1929, is presented annually for the best achievement in interior design in a film from the previous year.

The Academy expanded the eligibility criteria for the award in 1947, extending recognition beyond art directors to encompass set decorators as well.

Sorted Chronologically by Awards Year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Cedric Gibbons (11)
Most Nominations: Cedric Gibbons (39)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Roland Anderson (15)

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CATEGORY NAME HISTORY:
1929–2012: Art Direction
2013–Present: Production Design

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  • The Dove

    1

  • Tempest

    2

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    3

  • King of Jazz

    4

  • Cimarron

    5

  • Transatlantic

    6

  • Cavalcade

    7

  • The Merry Widow

    8

  • The Dark Angel

    9

  • Dodsworth

    10

  • Lost Horizon

    11

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    12

  • Gone with the Wind

    13

  • Pride and Prejudice

    14

  • The Thief of Bagdad

    15

  • How Green Was My Valley

    16

  • Blossoms in the Dust

    17

  • My Gal Sal

    18

  • This Above All

    19

  • The Song of Bernadette

    20

  • Phantom of the Opera

    21

  • Gaslight

    22

  • Wilson

    23

  • Blood on the Sun

    24

  • Frenchman's Creek

    25

  • The Yearling

    26

  • Anna and the King of Siam

    27

  • Great Expectations

    28

  • Black Narcissus

    29

  • Hamlet

    30

  • The Red Shoes

    31

  • The Heiress

    32

  • Little Women

    33

  • Sunset Boulevard

    34

  • Samson and Delilah

    35

  • An American in Paris

    36

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    37

  • Moulin Rouge

    38

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    39

  • Julius Caesar

    40

  • The Robe

    41

  • On the Waterfront

    42

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    43

  • Picnic

    44

  • The Rose Tattoo

    45

  • The King and I

    46

  • Somebody Up There Likes Me

    47

  • Sayonara

    48

  • Gigi

    49

  • Ben-Hur

    50

  • The Diary of Anne Frank

    51

  • The Apartment

    52

  • Spartacus

    53

  • West Side Story

    54

  • The Hustler

    55

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    56

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    57

  • America America

    58

  • Cleopatra

    59

  • My Fair Lady

    60

  • Zorba the Greek

    61

  • Doctor Zhivago

    62

  • Ship of Fools

    63

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    64

  • Fantastic Voyage

    65

  • Camelot

    66

  • Oliver!

    67

  • Hello, Dolly!

    68

  • Patton

    69

  • Nicholas and Alexandra

    70

  • Cabaret

    71

  • The Sting

    72

  • The Godfather Part II

    73

  • Barry Lyndon

    74

  • All the President's Men

    75

  • Star Wars

    76

  • Heaven Can Wait

    77

  • All That Jazz

    78

  • Tess

    79

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    80

  • Gandhi

    81

  • Fanny and Alexander

    82

  • Amadeus

    83

  • Out of Africa

    84

  • A Room with a View

    85

  • The Last Emperor

    86

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    87

  • Batman

    88

  • Dick Tracy

    89

  • Bugsy

    90

  • Howards End

    91

  • Schindler's List

    92

  • The Madness of King George

    93

  • Restoration

    94

  • The English Patient

    95

  • Titanic

    96

  • Shakespeare in Love

    97

  • Sleepy Hollow

    98

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    99

  • Moulin Rouge!

    100