From "The Dove" and "Tempest" in 1929 to "Sweeney Todd" in 2008, the Academy Awards have recognized great achievement in art direction throughout the years.
Other classic films to have won the Oscar for Art Direction include "Titanic", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Doctor Zhivago", "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Gone With the Wind".
Who Won Art Direction Oscars?
| 2008 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street |  
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| Other Nominees: American Gangster; Atonement; The Golden Compass; There Will Be Blood | |
| 2007 Pan's Labyrinth | 
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| Other Nominees: Dreamgirls; The Good Shepherd; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; The Prestige | |
| 2006 Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| John Myhre; Gretchen Rau | |
| Other Nominees: Good Night and Good Luck; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; King Kong; Pride & Prejudice | |
| 2005 The Aviator | 
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| Dante Ferretti; Francesca LoShiavo | |
| Other Nominees: Finding Neverland; Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; The Phantom of the Opera; A Very Long Engagement | |
| 2004 The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King | |
| Grant Major; Alan Lee; Dean Hennah | |
| Other Nominees: Girl With A Pearl Earring; The Last Samurai; Master and Commander; Seabiscuit | |
| 2003 Chicago | |
| John Myhre; Gordon Sim | |
| Other Nominees: Frida; Gangs of New York; Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; Road to Perdition | |
| 2002 Moulin Rouge | |
| Catherine Martin | |
| Other Nominees: Amelie; Gosford Park; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| 2001 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon | |
| Tim Yip | |
| Other Nominees: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Gladiator; Quills; Vatel | |
| 2000 Sleepy Hollow | |
| Rick Heinrichs | |
| Other Nominees: Anna and the King; The Cider House Rules; The Talented Mr Ripley; Topsy-Turvy | |
| 1999 Shakespeare In Love | 
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| Martin Childs | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth; Pleasantville; Saving Private Ryan; What Dreams May Come | |
| 1998 Titanic | |
| Peter Lamont; Michael Ford | |
| Other Nominees: Gattaca; Kundun; LA Confidential; Men In Black | |
| 1997 The English Patient | 
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| Stuart Craig; Stephenie McMillan | |
| Other Nominees: The Birdcage; Evita; Hamlet; William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet | |
| 1996 Restoration | |
| Eugenio Zanetti | |
| Other Nominees: Apollo 13; Babe; A Little Princess; Richard III | |
| 1995 The Madness of King George | |
| Ken Adam; Carolyn Scott | |
| Other Nominees: Bullets Over Broadway; Forrest Gump; Interview With the Vampire; Legends of the Fall | |
| 1994 Schindler's List | 
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| Allan Starski; Ewa Braun | |
| Other Nominees: Addams Family Values; The Age of Innocence; Orlando; The Remains of the Day | |
| 1993 Howards End | |
| Luciana Arrighi; Ian Whittaker | |
| Other Nominees: Bram Stoker's Dracula; Chaplin; Toys; Unforgiven | |
| 1992 Bugsy | 
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| Dennis Gassner; Nancy Haigh | |
| Other Nominees: Barton Fink; The Fisher King; Hook; The Prince of Tides | |
| 1991 Dick Tracy | |
| Richard Sylbert; Rick Simpson | |
| Other Nominees: Cyrano de Bergerac; Dances With Wolves; The Godfather Part III; Hamlet | |
| 1990 Batman | |
| Anton Furst; Peter Young | |
| Other Nominees: The Abyss; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Driving Miss Daisy; Glory | |
| 1989 Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Stuart Craig; Gerard James | |
| Other Nominees: Beaches; Rain Man; Tucker the Man and His Dream; Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
| 1988 The Last Emperor | |
| Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Bruno Cesari; Osvaldo Desideri | |
| Other Nominees: Empire of the Sun; Hope and Glory; Radio Days; The Untouchables | |
| 1987 A Room With A View | 
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| Gianni Quaranta; Brian Ackland-Snow; Brian Savegar; Elio Altamura | |
| Other Nominees: Aliens; The Color of Money; Hannah and Her Sisters; The Mission | |
| 1986 Out Of Africa | |
| Stephen Grimes; Josie MacAvin | |
| Other Nominees: Brazil; The Color Purple; Ran; Witness | |
| 1985 Amadeus | 
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| Patrizia Von Brandenstein; Karel Cerny | |
| Other Nominees: The Cotton Club; The Natural; A Passage To India; 2010 | |
| 1984 Fanny & Alexander | |
| Anna Asp | |
| Other Nominees: Return of the Jedi; The Right Stuff; Terms of Endearment; Yentl | |
| 1983 Gandhi | |
| Stuart Craig; Bob Laing; Michael Seirton | |
| Other Nominees: Annie; Blade Runner; La Traviata; Victor/Victoria | |
| 1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
| Norman Reynolds; Leslie Dilley; Michael Ford | |
| Other Nominees: The French Lieutenant's Woman; Heaven's Gate; Ragtime; Reds | |
| 1981 Tess | |
| Pierre Guffroy; Jack Stephens | |
| Other Nominees: Coal Miner's Daughter; The Elephant Man; The Empire Strikes Back; Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) | |
| 1980 All That Jazz | 
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| Philip Rosenberg; Tony Walton; Edward Stewart; Gary Brink | |
| Other Nominees: Alien; Apocalypse Now; The China Syndrome; Star Trek - The Motion Picture | |
| 1979 Heaven Can Wait | |
| Paul Sylbert; Edwin O'Donovan; George Gaines | |
| Other Nominees: The Brink's Job; California Suite; Interiors; The Wiz | |
| 1978 Star Wars | |
| John Barry; Norman Reynolds; Leslie Dilley; Roger Christian | |
| Other Nominees: Airport '77; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Spy Who Loved Me; The Turning Point | |
| 1977 All the President's Men ("All The President's Men") | 
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| George Jenkins; George Gaines | |
| Other Nominees: The Incredible Sarah; The Last Tycoon; Logan's Run; The Shootist | |
| 1976 Barry Lyndon | |
| Ken Adam; Roy Walker; Vernon Dixon | |
| Other Nominees: The Hindenburg; The Man Who Would Be King; Shampoo; The Sunshine Boys | |
| 1975 The Godfather Part II | |
| Dean Tavoularis; Angelo Graham; George R Nelson | |
| Other Nominees: Chinatown; Earthquake; The Island at the Top of the World; The Towering Inferno | |
| 1974 The Sting | |
| Henry Bumstead; James Payne | |
| Other Nominees: Brother Sun Sister Moon; The Exorcist; Tom Sawyer; The Way We Were | |
| 1973 Cabaret | |
| Rolf Zehetbauer; Jurgen Kiebach; Herbert Strabel | |
| Other Nominees: Lady Sings the Blues; The Poseidon Adventure; Travels With My Aunt; Young Winston | |
| 1972 Nicholas and Alexandra | |
| John Box; Ernest Archer; Jack Maxsted; Gil Parrondo; Vernon Dixon | |
| Other Nominees: The Andromeda Strain; Bedknobs and Broomsticks; Fiddler on the Roof; Mary Queen of Scots | |
| 1971 Patton | |
| Urie McCleary; Gil Parrondo; Antonio Mateos; Pierre-Louis Thevenet | |
| Other Nominees: Airport; The Molly Maguires; Scrooge; Tora! Tora! Tora! | |
| 1970 Hello Dolly! | |
| John DeCUir; Jack Martin Smith; Herman Blumenthal; Walter M Scott; George Hopkins; Raphael Bretton | |
| Other Nominees: Anne Of the Thousand Days; Gaily Gaily; Sweet Charity; They Shoot Horses Don't They? | |
| 1969 Oliver! | |
| John Box; Terence Marsh; Vernon Dixon; Ken Muggleston | |
| Other Nominees: The Shoes of the Fisherman; Star!; 2001: A Space Odyssey; War and Peace | |
| 1968 Camelot | |
| John Truscott; Edward Carrere; John W Brown | |
| Other Nominees: Doctor Dolittle; Guess Who's Coming To Dinner; The Taming of the Shrew; Thoroughly Modern Millie | |
| 1967 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Richard Sylbert; George James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: The Fortune Cookie; The Gospel According To St Matthew; Is Paris Burning?; Mister Buddwing | |
| 1967 Fantastic Voyage | |
| Jack Martin Smith; Dale Hennesy; Walter M Scott; Stuart A Reiss | |
| Other Nominees: Gambit; Juliet of the Spirits; The Oscar; The Sand Pebbles | |
| 1966 Ship of Fools | |
| Robert Clatworthy; Joseph Kish | |
| Other Nominees: King Rat; A Patch of Blue; The Slender Thread; The Spy Who Came In From the Cold | |
| 1966 Doctor Zhivago | |
| John Box; Terry Marsh; Dario Simoni | |
| Other Nominees: The Agony and the Ecstasy; The Greatest Story Ever Told; Inside Daisy Clover; The Sound of Music | |
| 1965 Zorba the Greek | |
| Vassilis Fotopoulos | |
| Other Nominees: The Americanization of Emily; Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; The Night of the Iguana; Seven Days In May | |
| 1965 My Fair Lady | |
| Gene Allen; Cecil Beaton; George James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: Becket; Mary Poppins; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; What A Way To Go! | |
| 1964 America America | |
| Gene Callahan | |
| Other Nominees: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2; Hud; Love with the Proper Stranger | |
| 1964 Cleopatra | |
| John DeCuir; Jack Martin Smith; Hilyard Brown; Herman Blumenthal; Elven Webb; Maurice Pelling; Boris Juraga; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: The Cardinal; Come Blow Your Horn; How the West Was Won; Tom Jones | |
| 1963 To Kill A Mockingbird | |
| Alexander Golitzen; Henry Bumstead; Oliver Emert | |
| Other Nominees: Days of Wine and Roses; The Longest Day; Period of Adjustment; The Pigeon that Took Rome | |
| 1963 Lawrence of Arabia | |
| John Box; John Stoll; Dario Simoni | |
| Other Nominees: The Music Man; Mutiny on the Bounty; That Touch of Mink; The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | |
| 1962 The Hustler | |
| Harry Horner; Gene Callahan | |
| Other Nominees: The Absent Minded Professor; The Children's Hour; Judgment at Nuremberg; La Dolce Vita | |
| 1962 West Side Story | |
| Boris Leven; Victor A Gangelin | |
| Other Nominees: Breakfast At Tiffany's; El Cid; Flower Drum Song; Summer and Smoke | |
| 1961 The Apartment | |
| Alexander Trauner; Edward G Boyle | |
| Other Nominees: The Facts of Life; Psycho; Sons and Lovers; Visit To A Small Planet | |
| 1961 Spartacus | |
| Alexander Golitzen; Eric Orbom; Russell A Gausman; Julia Heron | |
| Other Nominees: Cimarron; It Started In Naples; Pepe; Sunrise at Campobello | |
| 1960 The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Lyle R Wheeler; George W Davis; Walter M Scott; Stuart A Reiss | |
| Other Nominees: Career; The Last Angry Man; Some Like It Hot; Suddenly Last Summer | |
| 1960 Ben-Hur | 
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| William A Horning; Edward Carfagno; Hugh Hunt | |
| Other Nominees: The Big Fisherman; Journey to the Center of the Earth; North By Northwest; Pillow Talk | |
| 1959 Gigi | |
| William A Horning; Preston Ames; Henry Grace; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Bell Book and Candle; A Certain Smile; Vertigo | |
| 1958 Sayonara | |
| Ted Haworth; Robert Priestley | |
| Other Nominees: Funny Face; Les Girls; Pal Joey; Raintree County | |
| 1957 Somebody Up There Likes Me | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Malcolm F Brown; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: The Magnificent Seven; The Proud and the Profane; The Solid Gold Cadillac; Teenage Rebel | |
| 1957 The King and I | |
| Lyle R Wheeler; John DeCuir; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox | |
| Other Nominees: Around the World In 80 Days; Giant; Lust For Life; The Ten Commandments | |
| 1956 The Rose Tattoo | |
| Hal Pereira; Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer; Arthur Krams | |
| Other Nominees: Blackboard Jungle; I'll Cry Tomorrow; The Man With the Golden Arm; Marty | |
| 1956 Picnic | |
| William Flannery; Jo Mielziner; Robert Priestley | |
| Other Nominees: Daddy Long Legs; Guys and Dolls; Love is a Many Splendored Thing; To Catch a Thief | |
| 1955 On the Waterfront ("On The Waterfront") | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: The Country Girl; Executive Suite; Le Plasir; Sabrina | |
| 1955 20000 Leagues Under the Sea | 
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| John Meehan; Emile Kuri | |
| Other Nominees: Brigadoon; Desiree; Red Garters; A Star Is Born | |
| 1954 Julius Caesar | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Edward Carfagno; Edwin B Willis; Hugh Hunt | |
| Other Nominees: Martin Luther; The President's Lady; Roman Holiday; Titanic | |
| 1954 The Robe | |
| Lyle Wheeler; George W Davis; Walter M Scott; Paul S Fox | |
| Other Nominees: Knights of the Round Table; Lili; The Story of Three Loves; Young Bess | |
| 1953 The Bad and the Beautiful | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Edward Carfagno; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: Carrie; My Cousin Rachel; Rashomon; Viva Zapata! | |
| 1953 Moulin Rouge | |
| Paul Sheriff; Marcel Vertes | |
| Other Nominees: Hans Christian Andersen; The Merry Widow; The Quiet Man; The Snows of Kilimanjaro | |
| 1952 A Streetcar Named Desire | 
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| Richard Day; James Hopkins | |
| Other Nominees: Fourteen Hours; House on Telegraph Hill; La Ronde; Too Young To Kiss | |
| 1952 An American In Paris | 
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| Cedric Gibbons; Preston Ames; Edwin B Willis; Keogh Gleason | |
| Other Nominees: David and Bathsheba; On the Riviera; Quo Vadis; Tales of Hoffman | |
| 1951 Sunset Blvd | |
| Hans Dreier; John Meehan; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: All About Eve; The Red Danube | |
| 1951 Samson and Delilah | |
| Hans Dreier; Walter Tyler; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer | |
| Other Nominees: Annie Get Your Gun; Destination Moon | |
| 1950 The Heiress | |
| Harry Horner; John Meehan; Emile Kuri | |
| Other Nominees: Come To the Stable; Madame Bovary | |
| 1950 Little Women | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B Willis; Jack D Moore | |
| Other Nominees: The Adventures of Don Juan; Saraband | |
| 1949 Hamlet | |
| Roger K Furse; Carmen Dillon | |
| Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda | |
| 1949 The Red Shoes | |
| Hein Heckroth; Arthur Lawson | |
| Other Nominees: Joan of Arc | |
| 1948 Great Expectations | |
| John Bryan; Wilfred Shingleton | |
| Other Nominees: The Foxes of Harrow | |
| 1948 Black Narcissus | |
| Alfred Junge | |
| Other Nominees: Life With Father | |
| 1947 Anna and the King of Siam | |
| Lyle Wheeler; William Darling; Thomas Little; Frank E Hughes | |
| Other Nominees: Kitty; The Razor's Edge | |
| 1947 The Yearling | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B Willis | |
| Other Nominees: Caesar and Cleopatra; Henry V | |
| 1946 Blood on the Sun | |
| Wiard Ihnen; A Roland Fields | |
| Other Nominees: Experiment Perilous; The Keys of the Kingdom; Love Letters; The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| 1946 Frenchman's Creek | |
| Hans Dreier; Ernst Fegte; Sam Comer | |
| Other Nominees: Leave Her To Heaven; National Velvet; San Antonion; A Thousand and One Nights | |
| 1945 Gaslight | |
| Cedric Gibbons; William Ferrari; Edwin B Willis; Paul Huldschinsky | |
| Other Nominees: Address Unknown; The Adventures of Mark Twain; Casanova Brown; Laura; No Time For Love; Since You Went Away; Step Lively | |
| 1945 Wilson | |
| Wiard Ihnen; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: The Climax; Cover Girl; The Desert Song; Kismet; Lady in the Dark; The Princess and the Pirate | |
| 1944 The Song of Bernadette | |
| James Basevi; William Darling; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Five Graves To Cairo; Flight For Freedom; Madame Curie; Mission To Moscow; The North Star | |
| 1944 Phantom of the Opera | |
| John B Goodman; Alexander Golitzen; Russell A Gausman; Ira S Webb | |
| Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Gang's All Here; This Is the Army; Thousands Cheer | |
| 1943 This Above All | |
| Richard Day; Joseph Wright; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: George Washington Slept Here; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Pride of the Yankees; Random Harvest; The Shanghai Gesture; Silver Queen; The Spoilers; Take a Letter Darling; The Talk of the Town | |
| 1943 My Gal Sal | |
| Richard Day; Joseph Wright; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Arabian Nights; Captains of the Clouds; Jungle Book; Reap the Wild Wind | |
| 1942 How Green Was My Valley | |
| Richard Day; Nathan Juran; Thomas Little | |
| Other Nominees: Citizen Kane; The Flame of New Orleans; Hold Back the Dawn; Ladies In Retirement; The Little Foxes; Sergeant York; The Son of Monte Cristo; Sundown; That Hamilton Woman; When Ladies Meet | |
| 1942 Blossoms In the Dust | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Urie McCleary; Edwin B Willis | |
| Other Nominees: Blood and Sand; Louisiana Purchase | |
| 1941 Pride and Prejudice | |
| Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse | |
| Other Nominees: Arise My Love; Arizona; The Boys from Syracuse; The Dark Command; Foreign Correspondent; Lillian Russell; My Favorite Wife; My Son My Son!; Our Town; Rebecca; The Sea Hawk; The Westerner | |
| 1941 The Thief of Bagdad | |
| Vincent Korda | |
| Other Nominees: Bitter Sweet; Down Argentine Way; North West Mounted Police | |
| 1940 Gone With the Wind | |
| Lyle Wheeler | |
| Other Nominees: Beau Geste; Captain Fury; First Love; Love Affair; Man of Conquest; Mr Smith Goes To Washington; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; The Rains Came; Stagecoach; The Wizard of Oz; Wuthering Heights | |
| 1939 The Adventures of Robin Hood | |
| Carl J Weyl | |
| Other Nominees: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Algiers; Carefree; The Goldwyn Follies; Holiday; If I Were King; Mad About Music; Marie Antoinette; Merrily We Live | |
| 1938 Lost Horizon | |
| Stephen Goossan | |
| Other Nominees: Conquest; A Damsel In Distress; Dead End; Every Day's A Holiday; The Life of Emile Zola; Manhattan Merry-Go-Round; The Prisoner of Zenda; Souls at Sea; Vogues of 1938; Wee Willie Winkie; Your're A Sweetheart | |
| 1937 Dodsworth | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse; The Great Ziegfeld; Lloyds of London; The Magnificent Brute; Romeo and Juliet; Winterset | |
| 1936 The Dark Angel | |
| Richard Day | |
| Other Nominees: The Lives of Bengal Lancer; Top Hat | |
| 1935 The Merry Widow | |
| Cedric Gibbons;Fredric Hope | |
| Other Nominees: The Affairs of Cellini; The Gay Divorcee | |
| 1934 Cavalcade | |
| William S Darling | |
| Other Nominees: A Farewell To Arms; When Ladies Meet | |
| 1932 Transatlantic | |
| Gordon Wiles | |
| Other Nominees: A Nous La Liberte; Arrowsmith | |
| 1931 Cimarron | |
| Max Ree | |
| Other Nominees: Just Imagine; Morocco; Svengali; Whoopee | |
| 1930 King of Jazz | |
| Herman Rosse | |
| Other Nominees: Bulldog Drummond; The Love Parade; Sally; The Vagabond King | |
| 1930 The Bridge of San Luis Rey | |
| Cedric Gibbons | |
| Other Nominees: Hans Dreier; Mtichell Leisen; William Cameron Menzies; Harry Oliver | |
| 1929 The Dove | |
| William Cameron Menzies | |
| Other Nominees: Rochus Gliese; Harry Oliver | |
Movie Trailer for 'Sweeney Todd'
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