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1940-an

Hitam-Putih

• 1948: Roger K. Furse – Hamlet
  • Irene Lentz – B.F.'s Daughter
• 1949: Edith Head dan Gile Steele – The Heiress
  • Vittorio Nino Novarese – Prince of Foxes

Warna

• 1948: Dorothy Jeakins dan Barbara Karinska – Joan of Arc
  • Edith Head dan Gile Steele – The Emperor Waltz
• 1949: Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes dan William Travilla – Adventures of Don Juan
  • Kay Nelson – Mother Is a Freshman

1950-an

• 1950 Hitam-Putih Edith Head, Charles LeMaire - All About Eve
  • Jean Louis - Born Yesterday
  • Walter Plunkett - The Magnificent Yankee
• 1950 Warna 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 Hitam-Putih 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 Warna Orry-Kelly, 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 Hitam-Putih 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 Warna - 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 Hitam-Putih 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 Warna 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 Hitam-Putih 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 Warna Sanzo Wada - Gate of Hell
  • Irene Sharaff - Brigadoon
  • Charles LeMaire, Rene Hubert - Désirée
  • 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 Hitam-Putih Helen Rose - I'll Cry Tomorrow
  • Beatrice Dawson - The Pickwick Papers
  • Jean Louis - Queen Bee
  • Edith Head - The Rose Tattoo
  • Tadaoto Kainosho - Ugetsu
• 1955 Warna 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 Hitam-Putih Jean Louis - The Solid Gold Cadillac
  • Kohei Ezaki - the Seven Samurai
  • Helen Rose - The Power and the Prize
  • Edith Head - The Proud and the Profane
  • Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - Teenage Rebel
• 1956 Warna 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

Tahun 1957 penghargaan ini dijadikan satu

• 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

Tahun 1959 penghargaan ini kembali dibagi menjadi dua.

• 1959 Hitam-Putih 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 Warna 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

1960-an

Hitam-Putih

• 1960: Edith Head dan 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
• 1961: Piero Gherardi – La dolce vita
  • Dorothy Jeakins – The Children's Hour
  • Howard Shoup – Claudell Inglish
  • Jean Louis – Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Yoshiro Muraki – Yojimbo

Warna

• 1960: Arlington Valles – Spartacus
  • Irene Sharaff – Can-Can
  • Irene Lentz – Midnight Lace
  • Edith Head – Pepe
  • Marjorie Best – Sunrise at Campobello
• 1961: Irene Sharaff – West Side Story
  • Bill Thomas – Babes in Toyland
  • Jean Louis – Back Street
  • Irene Sharaff – Flower Drum Song
  • Edith Head dan Walter Plunkett – Pocketful of Miracles

• 1962: Norma Koch – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Don Feld – Days of Wine and Roses
  • Edith Head – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Ruth Morley – The Miracle Worker
  • Denny Vachlioti – Phaedra

• 1962: 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: 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
• 1964: 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
  • René Hubert – The Visit

• 1963: Renie Conley, Vittorio Nino Novarese dan Irene Sharaff – Cleopatra
  • Donald Brooks – The Cardinal
  • Walter Plunkett – How the West Was Won
  • Piero Tosi – The Leopard
  • Edith Head – A New Kind of Love
• 1964: 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: Julie Harris – Darling
  • Moss Mabry – Morituri
  • Howard Shoup – A Rage to Live
  • Jean Louis and Bill Thomas – Ship of Fools
  • Edith Head – The Slender Thread
• 1966: 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!

• 1965: Phyllis Dalton – Doctor Zhivago
  • Vittorio Nino Novarese – The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Marjorie Best dan Vittorio Nino Novarese – The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Edith Head dan Bill Thomas – Inside Daisy Clover
  • Dorothy Jeakins – The Sound of Music
• 1966: Elizabeth Haffenden – A Man for All Seasons
  • Jean Louis – Gambit
  • Dorothy Jeakins – Hawaii
  • Piero Gherardi – Juliet of the Spirits
  • Edith Head – The Oscar

Tahun 1967 kategori ini dijadikan satu kembali.

• 1967: John Truscott – Camelot
  • Theadora Van Runkle – Bonnie and Clyde
  • Bill Thomas – The Happiest Millionaire
  • Danilo Donati dan Irene Sharaff – The Taming of the Shrew
  • Jean Louis – Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 1968: Danilo Donati – Romeo and Juliet
  • Margaret Furse – The Lion in Winter
  • Phyllis Dalton – Oliver!
  • Morton Haack – Planet of the Apes
  • Donald Brooks – Star!
• 1969: Margaret Furse – Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Irene Sharaff – Hello, Dolly!
  • Ray Aghayan – Gaily, Gaily
  • Edith Head – Sweet Charity
  • Don Feld – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970-an

• 1970: Vittorio Nino Novarese – Cromwell
  • Edith Head – Airport
  • Jack Bear dan Donald Brooks – Darling Lili
  • Bill Thomas – The Hawaiians
  • Margaret Furse – Scrooge
• 1971: Yvonne Blake dan Antonio Castillo – Nicholas and Alexandra
  • Bill Thomas – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  • Piero Tosi – Death in Venice
  • Margaret Furse – Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Morton Haack – What's the Matter with Helen?
• 1972: Anthony Powell – Travels with My Aunt
  • Anna Hill Johnstone – The Godfather
  • Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch dan Bob Mackie – Lady Sings the Blues
  • Paul Zastupnevich – The Poseidon Adventure
  • Anthony Mendleson – Young Winston
• 1973: Edith Head – The Sting
  • Marik Vos – Cries and Whispers
  • Piero Tosi – Ludwig
  • Don Feld – Tom Sawyer
  • Dorothy Jeakins dan Moss Mabry – The Way We Were
• 1974: Theoni V. Aldredge – The Great Gatsby
  • Anthea Sylbert – Chinatown
  • John Furness – Daisy Miller
  • Theadora Van Runkle – The Godfather: Part II
  • Tony Walton – Murder on the Orient Express
• 1975: Milena Canonero dan Ulla-Britt Soderlund – Barry Lyndon
  • Yvonne Blake dan Ron Talsky – The Four Musketeers
  • Ray Aghayan dan Bob Mackie – Funny Lady
  • Karin Erskine dan Henny Noremark – The Magic Flute
  • Edith Head – The Man Who Would Be King
• 1976: Danilo Donati – Fellini's Casanova
  • William Ware Theiss – Bound for Glory
  • Anthony Mendleson – The Incredible Sarah
  • Mary Wills – The Passover Plot
  • Alan Barrett – The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• 1977: John Mollo – Star Wars
  • Edith Head dan Burton Miller – Airport '77
  • Anthea Sylbert – Julia
  • Florence Klotz – A Little Night Music
  • Irene Sharaff – The Other Side of Midnight
• 1978: Anthony Powell – Death on the Nile
  • Renie Conley – Caravans
  • Patricia Norris – Days of Heaven
  • Paul Zastupnevich – The Swarm
  • Tony Walton – The Wiz
• 1979: Albert Wolsky – All That Jazz
  • Shirley Russell – Agatha
  • Ambra Danon dan Piero Tosi – The Bird Cage (La cage aux folles)
  • William Ware Theiss – Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
  • Judy Moorcroft – The Europeans

1980-an

• 1980: Anthony Powell – Tess
  • Patricia Norris – The Elephant Man
  • Anna Senior – My Brilliant Career
  • Jean-Pierre Dorleac – Somewhere in Time
  • Paul Zastupnevich – When Time Ran Out
• 1981: Milena Canonero – Chariots of Fire
  • Tom Rand – The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Bob Mackie – Pennies from Heaven
  • Anna Hill Johnstone – Ragtime
  • Shirley Russell – Reds
• 1982: Bhanu Athaiya, Madeline Jones dan John Mollo – Gandhi
  • Albert Wolsky – Sophie's Choice
  • Piero Tosi – La Traviata
  • Elois Jenssen dan Rosanna Norton – Tron
  • Patricia Norris – Victor/Victoria
• 1983: Marik Vos – Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
  • Joe I. Tompkins – Cross Creek
  • William Ware Theiss – Heart Like a Wheel
  • Anne-Marie Marchand – The Return of Martin Guerre
  • Santo Loquasto – Zelig
• 1984: Theodor Pistek – Amadeus
  • Patricia Norris – 2010
  • Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – The Bostonians
  • Judy Moorcroft – A Passage to India
  • Ann Roth – Places in the Heart
• 1985: Emi Wada – Ran
  • Aggie Guerard Rodgers – The Color Purple
  • Albert Wolsky – The Journey of Natty Gann
  • Milena Canonero – Out of Africa
  • Donfeld – Prizzi's Honor
• 1986: Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – A Room with a View
  • Enrico Sabbatini – The Mission
  • Anna Anni dan Maurizio Millenotti – Otello
  • Theadora Van Runkle – Peggy Sue Got Married
  • Anthony Powell – Pirates
• 1987: James Acheson – The Last Emperor
  • Dorothy Jeakins – The Dead
  • Bob Ringwood – Empire of the Sun
  • Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – Maurice
  • Marilyn Vance-Straker – The Untouchables
• 1988: James Acheson – Dangerous Liaisons
  • Deborah Nadoolman – Coming to America
  • Jane Robinson – A Handful of Dust
  • Patricia Norris – Sunset
  • Milena Canonero – Tucker: The Man and His Dream
• 1989: Phyllis Dalton – Henry V
  • Gabriella Pescucci – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • Elizabeth McBride – Driving Miss Daisy
  • Joe I. Tompkins – Harlem Nights
  • Theodor Pištěk – Valmont

1990-an

• 1990: Franca Squarciapino – Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Gloria Gresham – Avalon
  • Elsa Zamparelli – Dances with Wolves
  • Milena Canonero – Dick Tracy
  • Maurizio Millenotti – Hamlet
• 1991: Albert Wolsky – Bugsy
  • Ruth Myers – The Addams Family
  • Richard Hornung – Barton Fink
  • Anthony Powell – Hook
  • Corinne Jorry – Madame Bovary
• 1992: Eiko Ishioka – Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Sheena Napier – Enchanted April
  • Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – Howards End
  • Ruth E. Carter – Malcolm X
  • Albert Wolsky – Toys
• 1993: Gabriella Pescucci – The Age of Innocence
  • Sandy Powell – Orlando
  • Janet Patterson – The Piano
  • Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – The Remains of the Day
  • Anna B. Sheppard – Schindler's List
• 1994: Tim Chappel dan Lizzy Gardiner – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Jeffrey Kurland – Bullets Over Broadway
  • Colleen Atwood – Little Women
  • April Ferry – Maverick
  • Moidele Bickel – Queen Margot (La reine Margot)
• 1995: James Acheson – Restoration
  • Charles Knode – Braveheart
  • Shuna Harwood – Richard III
  • Jenny Beavan dan John Bright – Sense and Sensibility
  • Julie Weiss – Twelve Monkeys
• 1996: Ann Roth – The English Patient
  • Paul Brown – Angels and Insects
  • Ruth Myers – Emma
  • Alexandra Byrne – Hamlet
  • 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
  • Jenny Beavan – Anna and the King
  • Colleen Atwood – Sleepy Hollow
  • Gary Jones dan Ann Roth – The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Milena Canonero – Titus

2000-an

• 2000: Janty Yates – Gladiator
  • Anthony Powell – 102 Dalmatians
  • Tim Yip – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
  • Rita Ryack – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • Jacqueline West – Quills
• 2001: Catherine Martin dan Angus Strathie – Moulin Rouge!
  • Milena Canonero – The Affair of the Necklace
  • Jenny Beavan – Gosford Park
  • Judianna Makovsky – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Ngila Dickson dan Richard Taylor – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 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 dan 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 and the Chocolate Factory
  • Sandy Powell – Mrs. Henderson Presents
  • Jacqueline Durran – Pride and Prejudice
  • Arianne Phillips – Walk the Line
• 2006: Milena Canonero – Marie Antoinette
  • Chung Man Yee – Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)
  • Patricia Field – The Devil Wears Prada
  • Sharen Davis – Dreamgirls
  • Consolata Boyle – The Queen
• 2007: Alexandra Byrne – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  • Albert Wolsky – Across the Universe
  • Jacqueline Durran – Atonement
  • Marit Allen – La Vie en Rose (La môme)
  • Colleen Atwood – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• 2008: Michael O'Conner – The Duchess
  • Catherine Martin – Australia
  • Jacqueline West – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Danny Glicker – Milk
• 2009: Sandy Powell – The Young Victoria
  • Sandy Powell – The young Victoria
  • Janet Patterson– Bright Star
  • Catherine Leterrier – Coco Before Chanel
  • Monique Pruddhomme – The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  • Colleen Atwood - Nine