Academy Award for Best Costume Design - Definition and Overview

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

1940s

• 1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse - Hamlet
  • Irene Sharaff - 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 - 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 Stare 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 a.k.a The Seven Samurai, s.k.a. The Magnificent Seven
  • 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 Gibbons - 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 -

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 (film)
  • 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 (movie)
  • 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 (movie)
  • 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 Nominations (This line will be replaced with the winner after the awards program)
  • Sandy Powell, The Aviator
  • Alexandra Byrne, Finding Neverland
  • Colleen Atwood, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Sharen Davis, Ray
  • Bob Ringwood, Troy