Annual Academy Award for achievement in film costume design
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.[ 1]
The award was first given in 1949, for films made in 1948. Initially, separate award categories were established for black-and-white films and color films. Since the merger of the two categories in 1967, the Academy has traditionally avoided giving out the award to films with a contemporary setting.[ 2]
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is given out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the best achievement of film costume design of the previous year. Films that are eligible for the award must meet a series of criteria, including the requirement that the costumes must have been "conceived" by a costume designer. For this particular criteria, each submission is reviewed by the costume designer members of the Art Directors Branch prior to the ballot process. Further rules include that the nominee(s) be only the principal costume designer(s), that the five films that receive the highest number of votes will become the ceremony's nominations for final voting, and that the final voting will only be undertaken by active and life members of the academy.[ 3]
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given out at the 21st Academy Awards ,[ 4] held on March 24, 1949. The award had two subcategories, one for films in black and white and one for films in color.[ 5] At the 30th Academy Awards , held on March 26, 1958, these two subcategories were merged into one,[ 6] which was the result of the academy reducing the number of competitive categories from 30 to 24.[ 7] The 32nd Academy Awards saw the category again be split into two for recognition of both black and white and color film.[ 8] Eight years later, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with two other awards, were each combined into their own single category recognizing achievement in film.[ 9]
From 1949 to 1966, most Academy Awards for Best Costume Design in Black and White were given to a contemporary movie. On the other hand, epics, fantasies, and musicals dominated the color category.[ 10] Since the merger into one singular category for color films in 1967, films set in modern times have won only three times.[ 11] The three contemporary-set winners have been Travels with My Aunt , All That Jazz , and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert .[ 11] All other winners during this period have been set in the past or in a science-fiction or fantasy setting.
Category
Name
Superlative
Notes
Most Awards[ 12]
Edith Head
8 awards
Awards resulted from 35 nominations
Most Nominations[ 12]
35 nominations
Nominations resulted in 8 awards.
Most Nominations (without ever winning)
Patricia Norris
6 nominations
Nominations resulted in no awards
Winners and nominees [ edit ]
indicates the winner
Year
Film
Costume designer(s)
1950 (23rd) [ 15]
Black-and-White
All About Eve
Edith Head and Charles LeMaire
Born Yesterday
Jean Louis
The Magnificent Yankee
Walter Plunkett
Color
Samson and Delilah
Edith Head , Dorothy Jeakins , Elois Jenssen , Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling
The Black Rose
Michael Whittaker
That Forsyte Woman
Walter Plunkett and Valles
1951 (24th) [ 16]
Black-and-White
A Place in the Sun
Edith Head
Kind Lady
Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele (posthumously )
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Charles LeMaire and Renié
The Mudlark
Edward Stevenson and Margaret Furse
A Streetcar Named Desire
Lucinda Ballard
Color
An American in Paris
Orry-Kelly , Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff
David and Bathsheba
Charles LeMaire and Edward Stevenson
The Great Caruso
Helen Rose and Gile Steele (posthumously )
Quo Vadis
Herschel McCoy
Tales of Hoffmann
Hein Heckroth
1952 (25th) [ 17]
Black-and-White
The Bad and the Beautiful
Helen Rose
Affair in Trinidad
Jean Louis
Carrie
Edith Head
My Cousin Rachel
Charles LeMaire and Dorothy Jeakins
Sudden Fear
Sheila O'Brien
Color
Moulin Rouge
Marcel Vertès
The Greatest Show on Earth
Edith Head , Dorothy Jeakins and Miles White
Hans Christian Andersen
Clavé , Mary Wills and Madame Karinska
The Merry Widow
Helen Rose and Gile Steele (posthumously )
With a Song in My Heart
Charles LeMaire
1953 (26th) [ 18]
Black-and-White
Roman Holiday
Edith Head
The Actress
Walter Plunkett
Dream Wife
Helen Rose and Herschel McCoy
From Here to Eternity
Jean Louis
The President's Lady
Charles LeMaire and Renié
Color
The Robe
Charles LeMaire and Emile Santiago
The Band Wagon
Mary Ann Nyberg
Call Me Madam
Irene Sharaff
How to Marry a Millionaire
Charles LeMaire and Travilla
Young Bess
Walter Plunkett
1954 (27th) [ 19]
Black-and-White
Sabrina
Edith Head
The Earrings of Madame de...
Georges Annenkov and Rosine Delamare
Executive Suite
Helen Rose
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Christian Dior
It Should Happen to You
Jean Louis
Color
Gate of Hell
Sanzo Wada
Brigadoon
Irene Sharaff
Desiree
Charles LeMaire and René Hubert
A Star Is Born
Jean Louis , Mary Ann Nyberg and Irene Sharaff
There's No Business Like Show Business
Charles LeMaire , William Travilla and Miles White
1955 (28th) [ 20]
Black-and-White
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Helen Rose
The Pickwick Papers
Beatrice Dawson
Queen Bee
Jean Louis
The Rose Tattoo
Edith Head
Ugetsu
Tadaoto Kainosho
Color
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Charles LeMaire
Guys and Dolls
Irene Sharaff
Interrupted Melody
Helen Rose
To Catch a Thief
Edith Head
The Virgin Queen
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
1956 (29th) [ 21]
Black-and-White
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Jean Louis
Seven Samurai
Kohei Ezaki
The Power and the Prize
Helen Rose
The Proud and Profane
Edith Head
Teenage Rebel
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
Color
The King and I
Irene Sharaff
Around the World in 80 Days
Miles White
Giant
Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best
The Ten Commandments
Edith Head , Ralph Jester , John Jensen , Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg
War and Peace
Maria De Matteis
1957 (30th) [ 6] [ note 1]
Les Girls
Orry-Kelly
An Affair to Remember
Charles LeMaire
Funny Face
Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy
Pal Joey
Jean Louis
Raintree County
Walter Plunkett
1958 (31st) [ 22] [ note 1]
Gigi
Cecil Beaton
Bell, Book and Candle
Jean Louis
The Buccaneer
Ralph Jester , Edith Head and John Jensen
A Certain Smile
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
Some Came Running
Walter Plunkett
1959 (32nd) [ 8]
Black-and-White
Some Like It Hot
Orry-Kelly
Career
Edith Head
The Diary of Anne Frank
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
The Gazebo
Helen Rose
The Young Philadelphians
Howard Shoup
Color
Ben-Hur
Elizabeth Haffenden
The Best of Everything
Adele Palmer
The Big Fisherman
Renié
The Five Pennies
Edith Head
Porgy and Bess
Irene Sharaff
^ a b In 1957 and 1958, black-and-white and color films competed in a combined Best Costume Design category.
^ Yvonne Blake publicly complained about sharing a nomination with Ron Talsky for The Four Musketeers . She alleged that he "only designed one creation for Raquel Welch " for the preceding film The Three Musketeers . "Talsky was in no way involved creatively on the second picture," she said, but he retained his Oscar nomination because of his on-screen credit as costume designer for Welch.
^ Jane Clive was initially announced as a nominee for Maleficent , but was later removed from the nomination.
Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ]
The following 93 designers have received multiple nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. This list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).
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1948–1956 1957–1958 1959–1960 1961–1966 1967–1980 1981–2000 2001–2020 2021–present
Black and White / Color separate (1948–1956, 1959–1966)