1940s
Academy Award for Costume Design


This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies.

1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse - Hamlet
Irene Lentz - B.F.'s Daughter
1948 Color Dorothy Jeakins, Barbara Karinska - Joan of Arc
Edith Head, Gile Steele - The Emperor Waltz

1949 Black-and-White Edith Head, Gile Steele - The Heiress
Vittorio Nino Novarese - Prince of Foxes
1949 Color Leah Rhodes, William Travilla, Marjorie Best - Adventures of Don Juan
Kay Nelson - Mother Is a Freshman

1950s

1950 Black-and-White Edith Head, Charles LeMaire - All About Eve
Jean Louis - Born Yesterday
Walter Plunkett - The Magnificent Yankee
1950 Color Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling - Samson and Delilah
Michael Whittaker - The Black Rose
Walter Plunkett, Arlington Valles - That Forsyte Woman

1951 Black-and-White Edith Head - A Place in the Sun
Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele - Kind Lady
Charles LeMaire, Renie Conley - The Model and the Marriage Broker
Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse - The Mudlark
Lucinda Ballard - A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 Color Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff - An American in Paris
Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson - David and Bathsheba
Helen Rose, Gile Steele - The Great Caruso
Herschel McCoy - Quo Vadis?
Hein Heckroth - The Tales of Hoffmann

1952 Black-and-White Helen Rose - The Bad and the Beautiful
Jean Louis - Affair in Trinidad
Edith Head - Carrie
Charles LeMaire, Dorothy Jeakins - My Cousin Rachel
Sheila O'Brien - Sudden Fear
1952 Color - Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Miles White - The Greatest Show on Earth
Antoni Clavé, Mary Wills, Barbara Karinska - Hans Christian Andersen
Helen Rose, Gile Steele - The Merry Widow
Charles LeMaire - With a Song in My Heart

1953 Black-and-White Edith Head - Roman Holiday
Walter Plunkett - The Actress
Helen Rose, Herschel McCoy - Dream Wife
Jean Louis - From Here to Eternity
Charles LeMaire, Renie Conley - The President's Lady
1953 Color Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago - The Robe
Mary Ann Nyberg - The Band Wagon
Irene Sharaff - Call Me Madam
Charles Le Maire, William Travilla - How to Marry a Millionaire
Walter Plunkett - Young Bess

1954 Black-and-White Edith Head - Sabrina
Georges Annenkov, Rosine Delamare - The Earrings of Madame De. . .
Helen Rose - Executive Suite
Christian Dior - Indiscretion of an American Wife
Jean Louis - It Should Happen To You
1954 Color Sanzo Wada - Gate of Hell
Irene Sharaff - Brigadoon
Charles LeMaire, Rene Hubert - Desirée
Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg, Irene Sharaff - A Star Is Born
Charles LeMaire, William Travilla, Miles White - There's No Business Like Show Business

1955 Black-and-White Helen Rose - I'll Cry Tomorrow
Beatrice Dawson - The Pickwick Papers
Jean Louis - Queen Bee
Edith Head - The Rose Tattoo
Tadaoto Kainoscho - Ugetsu
1955 Color Charles LeMaire - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Irene Sharaff - Guys and Dolls
Helen Rose - Interrupted Melody
Edith Head - To Catch a Thief
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - The Virgin Queen

1956 Black-and-White Jean Louis - The Solid Gold Cadillac
Kohei Ezaki - Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)
Helen Rose - The Power and the Prize
Edith Head - The Proud and the Profane
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - Teenage Rebel
1956 Color Irene Sharaff - The King and I
Miles White - Around the World in Eighty Days
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best - Giant
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg - The Ten Commandments
Marie de Matteis - War and Peace

For 1957 the awards were combined into a single award.

1957 Orry-Kelly - Les Girls
Charles LeMaire - An Affair to Remember
Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy - Funny Face
Jean Louis, - Pal Joey
Walter Plunkett - Raintree County

1958 Cecil Beaton - Gigi
Jean Louis - Bell, Book and Candle
Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen - The Buccaneer)
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - A Certain Smile
Walter Plunkett - Some Came Running

For 1959 the Award was again divided into two awards.

1959 Black-and-White Orry-Kelly - Some Like It Hot
Edith Head - Career
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - The Diary of Anne Frank
Helen Rose - The Gazebo
Howard Shoup - The Young Philadelphians
1959 Color Elizabeth Haffenden - Ben-Hur
Adele Palmer - The Best of Everything
Renie Conley - The Big Fisherman
Edith Head - The Five Pennies
Irene Sharaff - Porgy and Bess

1960s

1960 Black-and-White Edith Head, Edward Stevenson - The Facts of Life
Danny Vachlioti - Never on Sunday
Howard Shoup - The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Bill Thomas - Seven Thieves
Marik Vos - The Virgin Spring
1960 Color Arlington Valles - Spartacus
Irene Sharaff - Can-Can
Irene Lentz - Midnight Lace
Edith Head - Pepe
Marjorie Best - Sunrise at Campobello

1961 Black-and-White Piero Gherardi - La Dolce Vita
Dorothy Jeakins - The Children's Hour
Howard Shoup - Claudell Inglish
Jean Louis - Judgment at Nuremberg
Yoshiro Muraki - Yojimbo
1961 Color - Irene Sharaff - West Side Story
Bill Thomas - Babes in Toyland
Jean Louis - Back Street
Irene Sharaff - Flower Drum Song
Edith Head, Walter Plunkett - Pocketful of Miracles

1962 Black-and-White Norma Koch - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Don Feld - Days of Wine and Roses
Edith Head - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Ruth Morley - The Miracle Worker
Denny Vachlioti - Phaedra
1962 Color Mary Wills - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Bill Thomas - Bon Voyage
Orry-Kelly - Gypsy
Dorothy Jeakins - The Music Man
Edith Head - My Geisha

1963 Black-and-White Piero Gherardi - 8½
Edith Head - Love with the Proper Stranger
William Travilla - The Stripper
Bill Thomas - Toys in the Attic
Edith Head - Wives and Lovers
1963 Color Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie Conley - Cleopatra
Donald Brooks - The Cardinal
Walter Plunkett - How the West Was Won
Piero Tosi - The Leopard
Edith Head - A New Kind of Love

1964 Black-and-White Dorothy Jeakins - The Night of the Iguana
Edith Head - A House Is Not a Home
Norma Koch - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Howard Shoup - Kisses for My President
Rene Hubert - The Visit
1964 Color Cecil Beaton - My Fair Lady
Margaret Furse - Becket
Tony Walton - Mary Poppins
Morton Haack - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Edith Head, Moss Mabry - What a Way to Go

1965 Black-and-White Julie Harris - Darling
Moss Mabry - Morituri
Howard Shoup - A Rage to Live
Bill Thomas, Jean Louis - Ship of Fools
Edith Head - The Slender Thread
1965 Color Phyllis Dalton - Doctor Zhivago
Vittorio Nino Novarese - The Agony and the Ecstasy
Vittorio Nino Novarese, Marjorie Best - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Edith Head, Bill Thomas - Inside Daisy Clover
Dorothy Jeakins - The Sound of Music

1966 Black-and-White Irene Sharaff - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Danilo Donati - The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Danilo Donati - Mandragola
Helen Rose - Mister Buddwing
Jocelyn Rickards - Morgan!
1966 Color - Elizabeth Haffenden - A Man for All Seasons
Jean Louis - Gambit
Dorothy Jeakins - Hawaii
Piero Gherardi - Juliet of the Spirits
Edith Head - The Oscar

For 1967 the category was recombined for one last time.

1967 John Truscott - Camelot
Danilo Donati, Irene Sharaff - The Taming of the Shrew
Jean Louis - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Bill Thomas - The Happiest Millionaire
Theadora Van Runkle - Bonnie and Clyde

1968 Danilo Donati - Romeo and Juliet
Donald Brooks - Star!
Phyllis Dalton - Oliver!
Margaret Furse - The Lion in Winter
Morton Haack - Planet of the Apes

1969 Margaret Furse - Anne of the Thousand Days
Ray Aghayan - Gaily, Gaily
Don Feld - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Edith Head - Sweet Charity
Irene Sharaff - Hello, Dolly!

1970s

1970 Vittorio Nino Novarese - Cromwell
Jack Bear, Donald Brooks - Darling Lili
Bill Thomas - The Hawaiians
Margaret Furse - Scrooge
Edith Head - Airport

1971 Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo - Nicholas and Alexandra
Margaret Furse - Mary, Queen of Scots
Morton Haack - What's the Matter with Helen?
Bill Thomas - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Piero Tosi - Death in Venice

1972 Anthony Powell - Travels with My Aunt
Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch, Bob Mackie - Lady Sings the Blues
Anna Hill Johnstone - The Godfather
Anthony Mendleson - Young Winston
Paul Zastupnevich - The Poseidon Adventure

1973 Edith Head - The Sting
Don Feld - Tom Sawyer
Dorothy Jeakins, Moss Mabry - The Way We Were
Piero Tosi - Ludwig
Marik Vos - Cries and Whispers

1974 Theoni V. Aldredge - The Great Gatsby
John Furness - Daisy Miller
Anthea Sylbert - Chinatown
Theadora Van Runkle - The Godfather, Part II
Tony Walton - Murder on the Orient Express

1975 Milena Canonero, Ulla-Britt Soderlund - Barry Lyndon
Ray Aghayan. Bob Mackie - Funny Lady
Yvonne Blake, Ron Talsky - The Four Musketeers
Karin Erskine, Henny Noremark - The Magic Flute
Edith Head - The Man Who Would Be King

1976 Danilo Donati - Fellini's Casanova
Alan Barrett - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Anthony Mendleson - The Incredible Sarah
William Ware Theiss - Bound for Glory
Mary Wills - The Passover Plot

1977 John Mollo - Star Wars
Edith Head, Burton Miller - Airport '77
Florence Klotz - A Little Night Music
Irene Sharaff - The Other Side of Midnight
Anthea Sylbert - Julia

1978 Anthony Powell - Death on the Nile
Renie Conley - Caravans
Patricia Norris - Days of Heaven
Tony Walton - The Wiz
Paul Zastupnevich - The Swarm

1979 Albert Wolsky - All That Jazz
Ambra Danon, Piero Tosi - La Cage aux Folles
Judy Moorcroft - The Europeans
Shirley Russell - Agatha
William Ware Theiss - Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

1980s

1980 Anthony Powell - Tess
Jean-Pierre Dorleac - Somewhere in Time
Patricia Norris - The Elephant Man
Anna Senior - My Brilliant Career
Paul Zastupnevich - When Time Ran Out

1981 Milena Canonero - Chariots of Fire
Anna Hill Johnstone - Ragtime
Bob Mackie - Pennies from Heaven
Tom Rand - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Shirley Russell - Reds

1982 Bhanu Athaiya, John Mollo - Gandhi
Elois Jenssen, Rosanna Norton - Tron
Patricia Norris - Victor/Victoria
Piero Tosi - La Traviata
Albert Wolsky - Sophie's Choice

1983 Marik Vos - Fanny and Alexander
Santo Loquasto - Zelig
Anne-Marie Marchand - The Return of Martin Guerre
William Ware Theiss - Heart Like a Wheel
Joe I. Tompkins - Cross Creek

1984 Theodor Pistek - Amadeus
Jenny Beavan, John Bright - The Bostonians
Judy Moorcroft - A Passage to India
Patricia Norris - 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Ann Roth - Places in the Heart

1985 Emi Wada - Ran
Milena Canonero - Out of Africa
Don Feld - Prizzi's Honor
Aggie Guerard Rodgers - The Color Purple
Albert Wolsky - The Journey of Natty Gann

1986 Jenny Beavan, John Bright - A Room with a View
Anna Anni - Otello
Anthony Powell - Pirates
Enrico Sabbatini - The Mission
Theadora Van Runkle - Peggy Sue Got Married

1987 James Acheson - The Last Emperor
Jenny Beavan, John Bright - Maurice
Dorothy Jeakins - The Dead
Bob Ringwood - Empire of the Sun
Marilyn Vance-Straker - The Untouchables

1988 James Acheson - Dangerous Liaisons
Milena Canonero - Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Deborah Nadoolman - Coming to America
Patricia Norris - Sunset
Jane Robinson - A Handful of Dust

1989 Phyllis Dalton - Henry V
Elizabeth McBride - Driving Miss Daisy
Gabriella Pescucci - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Theodor Pistek - Valmont
Joe I. Tompkins - Harlem Nights

1990s

1990 Franca Squarciapino - Cyrano de Bergerac
Milena Canonero - Dick Tracy
Gloria Gresham - Avalon
Maurizio Millenotti - Hamlet
Elsa Zamparelli - Dances With Wolves

1991 Albert Wolsky - Bugsy
Richard Hornung - Barton Fink
Corinne Jorry - Madame Bovary
Anthony Powell - Hook
Ruth Myers - The Addams Family

1992 Eiko Ishioka - Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jenny Beavan, John Bright - Howards End
Ruth E. Carter - Malcolm X
Sheena Napier - Enchanted April
Albert Wolsky - Toys

1993 Gabriella Pescucci - The Age of Innocence
Jenny Beavan, John Bright - The Remains of the Day
Anna Biedrzycka-Sheppard - Schindler's List
Janet Patterson - The Piano
Sandy Powell - Orlando

1994 Tim Chappel, Lizzy Gardiner - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Colleen Atwood - Little Women
Moidele Bickel - Queen Margot
April Ferry - Maverick
Jeffrey Kurland - Bullets Over Broadway

1995 James Acheson - Restoration
Jenny Beavan, John Bright - Sense and Sensibility
Shuna Harwood - Richard III
Charles Knode - Braveheart
Julie Weiss - Twelve Monkeys

1996 Ann Roth - The English Patient
Paul Brown - Angels and Insects
Alexandra Byrne - Hamlet
Ruth Myers - Emma
Janet Patterson - The Portrait of a Lady

1997 Deborah Lynn Scott - Titanic
Ruth E. Carter - Amistad
Dante Ferretti - Kundun
Janet Patterson - Oscar and Lucinda
Sandy Powell - The Wings of the Dove

1998 Sandy Powell - Shakespeare in Love
Colleen Atwood - Beloved
Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth
Judianna Makovsky - Pleasantville
Sandy Powell - Velvet Goldmine

1999 Lindy Hemming - Topsy-Turvy
Colleen Atwood - Sleepy Hollow
Jenny Beavan - Anna and the King
Milena Canonero - Titus
Gary Jones, Ann Roth - The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

2000 - Janty Yates - Gladiator
Anthony Powell - 102 Dalmatians
Rita Ryack - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Jacqueline West - Quills
Tim Yip - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2001 - Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie - Moulin Rouge!
Jenny Beavan - Gosford Park
Milena Canonero - The Affair of the Necklace
Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Judianna Makovsky - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2002 - Colleen Atwood - Chicago
Julie Weiss - Frida
Sandy Powell - Gangs of New York
Ann Roth - The Hours
Anna B. Sheppard - The Pianist

2003 - Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Dien van Straalen, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Ngila Dickson, The Last Samurai
Wendy Stites, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Judianna Makovsky, Seabiscuit

2004 - Sandy Powell, The Aviator
Alexandra Byrne, Finding Neverland
Colleen Atwood, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Sharen Davis, Ray
Bob Ringwood, Troy

2005 - Colleen Atwood Memoirs of a Geisha
Gabriella Pescucci Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Sandy Powell Mrs. Henderson Presents
Jacqueline Durran Pride and Prejudice
Arianne Phillips Walk the Line