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Academy Award for Best Production Design - Nominees

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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WINNERS LIST | SITE MAP

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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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  • 7th Heaven

    1

  • The Dove

    2

  • Street Angel

    3

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    4

  • Tempest

    5

  • Alibi

    6

  • The Patriot

    7

  • The Awakening

    8

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    9

  • Dynamite

    10

  • The Love Parade

    11

  • Bulldog Drummond

    12

  • King of Jazz

    13

  • Sally

    14

  • The Vagabond King

    15

  • Cimarron

    16

  • Just Imagine

    17

  • Morocco

    18

  • Svengali

    19

  • Whoopee!

    20

  • Arrowsmith

    21

  • À Nous la Liberté

    22

  • Transatlantic

    23

  • Cavalcade

    24

  • A Farewell to Arms

    25

  • When Ladies Meet

    26

  • The Gay Divorcee

    27

  • The Affairs of Cellini

    28

  • The Merry Widow

    29

  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    30

  • Top Hat

    31

  • The Dark Angel

    32

  • The Great Ziegfeld

    33

  • Anthony Adverse

    34

  • Dodsworth

    35

  • Romeo and Juliet

    36

  • Lloyd's of London

    37

  • The Magnificent Brute

    38

  • Winterset

    39

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    40

  • Dead End

    41

  • Lost Horizon

    42

  • Conquest

    43

  • A Damsel in Distress

    44

  • Every Day's a Holiday

    45

  • Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

    46

  • The Prisoner of Zenda

    47

  • Souls at Sea

    48

  • Vogues of 1938

    49

  • Wee Willie Winkie

    50

  • You're a Sweetheart

    51

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    52

  • Alexander's Ragtime Band

    53

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    54

  • Algiers

    55

  • Carefree

    56

  • The Goldwyn Follies

    57

  • Holiday

    58

  • If I Were King

    59

  • Mad About Music

    60

  • Marie Antoinette

    61

  • Merrily We Live

    62

  • Gone with the Wind

    63

  • Love Affair

    64

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    65

  • Stagecoach

    66

  • The Wizard of Oz

    67

  • Wuthering Heights

    68

  • Beau Geste

    69

  • Captain Fury

    70

  • First Love

    71

  • Man of Conquest

    72

  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    73

  • The Rains Came

    74

  • Rebecca

    75

  • Foreign Correspondent

    76

  • Our Town

    77

  • Arise, My Love

    78

  • Arizona

    79

  • Bitter Sweet

    80

  • The Boys from Syracuse

    81

  • Dark Command

    82

  • Down Argentine Way

    83

  • Lillian Russell

    84

  • My Favorite Wife

    85

  • My Son, My Son!

    86

  • North West Mounted Police

    87

  • Pride and Prejudice

    88

  • The Sea Hawk

    89

  • The Thief of Bagdad

    90

  • The Westerner

    91

  • How Green Was My Valley

    92

  • Blossoms in the Dust

    93

  • Citizen Kane

    94

  • Hold Back the Dawn

    95

  • The Little Foxes

    96

  • Sergeant York

    97

  • Blood and Sand

    98

  • The Flame of New Orleans

    99

  • Ladies in Retirement

    100