Best Costume Design Winners

Best Costume Design

A large part of bringing a story to life is making sure that the actors and actresses look the part. The wide variety of worlds created in films have benefited from the excellent work done by the men and women who’ve designed the costumes. From medieval knights to aliens, soldiers to Elizabethan socialites, these designers have made a clear mark on the success of films. Like other visual categories this one was initially divided into color and black-and-white winners. The categories were eventually combined in 1967. When talking about this award no name stands out more than Edith Head. She won Best Costume Design eight times out of 35 nominations received over a career than spanned more than five decades. Her work includes films like Rear Window, The Sting, and Funny Face. More recently, films like The Great Gatsby, The Artist, and The Grand Budapest Hotel have taken this one home.

Here are the winners…

1948 (B&W) – Hamlet

1948 (Color) – Joan of Arc

1949 (B&W) – The Heiress

1949 (Color) – Adventures of Don Juan

1950 (B&W) – All About Eve

1950 (Color) – Samson and Delilah

1951 (B&W) – A Place in the Sun

1951 (Color) – An American in Paris

1952 (B&W) – The Bad and the Beautiful

1952 (Color) – Moulin Rouge

1953 (B&W) – Roman Holiday

1953 (Color) – The Robe

1954 (B&W) – Sabrina

1954 (Color) – Gate of Hell

1955 (B&W) – I’ll Cry Tomorrow

1955 (Color) – Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

1956 (B&W) – The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956 (Color) – The King and I

Starting in 1957 the category was combined.

1957 – Les Girls

1958 – Gigi

The category was split again, starting with the 1959 awards.

1959 (B&W) – Some Like It Hot

1959 (Color) – Ben-Hur

1960 (B&W) – The Facts of Life

1960 (Color) – Spartacus

1961 (B&W) – La Dolce Vita

1961 (Color) – West Side Story

1962 (B&W) – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962 (Color) – The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1963 (B&W) – 8 1/2

1963 (Color) – Cleopatra

1964 (B&W) – The Night of the Iguana

1964 (Color) – My Fair Lady

1965 (B&W) – Darling

1965 (Color) – Doctor Zhivago

1966 (B&W) – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966 (Color) – A Man for All Seasons

The category was permanently combined starting in 1967.

1967 – Camelot

1968 – Romeo and Juliet

1969 – Anne of the Thousand Days

1970 – Cromwell

1971 – Nicholas and Alexandra

1972 – Travels with My Aunt

1973 – The Sting

1974 – The Great Gatsby

1975 – Barry Lyndon

1976 – Fellini’s Casanova

1977 – Star Wars

1978 – Death on the Nile

1979 – All That Jazz

1980 – Tess

1981 – Chariots of Fire

1982 – Gandhi

1983 – Fanny and Alexander

1984 – Amadeus

1985 – Ran

1986 – A Room with a View

1987 – The Last Emperor

1988 – Dangerous Liaisons

1989 – Henry V

1990 – Cyrano de Bergerac

1991 – Bugsy

1992 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

1993 – The Age of Innocence

1994 – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1995 – Restoration

1996 – The English Patient

1997 – Titanic

1998 – Shakespeare in Love

1999 – Topsy-Turvy

2000 – Gladiator

2001 – Moulin Rouge!

2002 – Chicago

2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004 – The Aviator

2005 – Memoirs of a Geisha

2006 – Marie Antoinette

2007 – Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2008 – The Duchess

2009 – The Young Victoria

2010 – Alice in Wonderland

2011 – The Artist

2012 – Anna Karenina

2013 – The Great Gatsby

2014 – The Grand Budapest Hotel

2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road

2016 – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them