Academy Award for Best Art Direction

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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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration

[edit] 1930s

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

[edit] 1940s

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

[edit] 1950s

For 1957 films this award became a single award.

With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two

[edit] 1960s

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

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2010s

[edit] References

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