TheAcademy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement forart direction infilm. The category's original name wasBest Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the85th Academy Awards.[1] This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being renamed the Designers' branch. Since1947, the award is shared with the set decorators. It is awarded to the best interior design in a film.[2]
The films below are listed with their production year (for example, the2000 Academy Award for Best Art Direction is given 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 in alphabetical order.
^The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.
^Prior to 1941, only credited art directors and assistant art directors were eligible for nomination.
^Republic Pictures submittedSis Hopkins and it was initially named as a nominee. However, the studio later withdrew the film from consideration and it is not considered an official nominee.
^United Artists submittedSong of the Open Road and it was initially named as a nominee. However, the studio later withdrew the film from consideration and it is not considered an official nominee.
^abIn 1957 and 1958, black-and-white and color films competed in a combined Best Art Direction category.
Finalists for Best Production Design were selected by branch members, who voted for ten finalists which were screened to determine the five nominees.[31]
