Academy Award for Best Art Direction

Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
Official website http://www.oscars.org

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went 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.

Superlatives

Category Name Superlative Notes
Most Awards Cedric Gibbons 11 awards Awards resulted from 39 nominations.[1][2]
Most Nominations Cedric Gibbons 39 nominations Nominations resulted in 11 awards.
Most Nominations
(without ever winning)
Roland Anderson 15 nominations Anderson died in 1989.
Contents

1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration

1930s

With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color films.

1940s

Beginning with 1947 films the name of the award was changed to Art Direction – Set Decoration.

1950s

For 1957 films this award became a single award.

With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two

1960s

For 1967 the two awards in this category were recombined into a single award.

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

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