A look back on the Academy Award winners for Best Costume Design!
This award wasn't introduced until 1948 (in case you're wondering, "Where is *insert gorgeously costumed film from before 1948 here*?") and it initially was given to two winners - a black-and-white film, and a color film. The Academy combined the award in the 1950s, reverted to the original format soon after, and finally combined the award for the last time in the late 1960s.
It would've been crazy to post pictures for every film for such a long list, but I've put together a small sampling of photos that I hope will be enjoyable. Not dial-up friendly!
Academy Award Winners for Best Costume Design (1948-present)
1948
Roger K. Furse for (black and white) Hamlet and Dorthy Jeakins and barbara Karinska for (color) Joan of Arc.
1949
Edith Head and Gile Steele for (black and white) The Heiress and Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes, and William Travilla for (color) Adventures of Don Juan.
(The Heiress)
1950
Edith Head and Charles LeMaire for (black-and-white) All About Eve and Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssenn, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling for (color) Samson and Delilah
1951
Edith Head for A Place in the Sun and Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff for An American in Paris
1952
Helen Rose for (black-and-white) The Bad and the Beautiful and Marcel Vertes for (color) Moulin Rouge.
(Moulin Rouge)
1953
Edith Head for (black-and-white) Roman Holiday and Charles LeMaire and Emile Santiago for (color) The Robe.
1954
Edith Head for (black-and-white) Sabrina and Sanzo Wada for (color) Gate of Hell.
1955
Helen Rose for (black-and-white) I'll Cry Tomorrow and Charles LeMaire for (color) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1956
Jean Louis for (black-and-white) The Solid Gold Cadillac and Irene Sharaff for (color) The King and I.
For 1957-58 the awards were combined into a single award.
1957
Orry-Kelly for Les Girls.
1958
Cecil Beaton for Gigi.
For 1959 it was again divided into two awards.
1959
Orry-Kelly for (black-and-white) Some Like It Hot and Elizabeth Haffenden for (color) Ben-Hur.
(Some Like It Hot)
1960
Edith Head and Edward Stevenson for (black-and-white) The Facts of Life and Arlington Valles for (color) Spartacus.
1961
Piero Gherardi for (black-and-white) La dolce vita and Irene Sharaff for (color) West Side Story.
1962
Norma Koch for (black-and-white) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Mary Wills for (color) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1963
Piergo Gherardi for (black-and-white) 8 1/2 and Reine Conley, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Irene Sharaff for (color) Cleopatra
1964
Dorothy Jenkins for (black-and-white) The Night of the Iguana and Cecil Beaton for (color) My Fair Lady
1965
Julie Harris for (black-and-white) Darling and Phyllis Dalton for (color) Doctor Zhivago
(Doctor Zhivago)
1966
Irene Sharaff for (black-and-white) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Elizabeth Haffenden for (color) A Man For All Seasons
In 1967 the category was recombined for one last time
1967
John Truscott for Camelot
1968
Danilo Donati for Romeo and Juliet
1969
Margaret Furse for Anne of the Thousand Days
1970
Vittorio Nino Novarese for Cromwell
1971
Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo for Nicholas and Alexandra
1972
Anthony Powell for Travels with My Aunt
1973
Edith Head for The Sting
1974
Theoni V. Aldredge for The Great Gatsby
1975
Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Soderlund for Barry Lyndon
1976
Danilo Donati for Fellini's Casanova
1977
John Mollo for Star Wars
1978
Anthony Powell for Death on the Nile
1979
Albert Wolsky for All That Jazz
1980
Anthony Powell for Tess
1981
Milena Canonero for Chariots of Fire
1982
Bhanu Athaiya , Madeline Jones and John Mollo for Gandhi
1983
Mark Vos for Fanny and Alexander
1984
Theodor Pistek for Amadeus
1985
Emi Wada for Ran
1986
Jenny Beavan and John Bright for A Room with a View
1987
James Acheson for The Last Emperor
1988
James Acheson for Dangerous Liasons
1989
Phyllis Dalton for Henry V
1990
Franca Squarciapino for Cyrano de Bergerac
1991
Albert Wolsky for Bugsy
1992
Eiko Ishioka for Bram Stoker's Dracula
1993
Gabriella Perscucci for The Age of Innocence
1994
Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1995
James Acheson for Restoration
1996
Ann Roth for The English Patient
1997
Deborah Lynn Scott for Titanic
1998
Sandy Powell for Shakespeare in Love
1999
Lindy Hemming for Topsy-Turvy
2000
Janty Yates for Gladiator
2001
Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie for Moulin Rouge!
2002
Colleen Atwood for Chicago
2003
Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004
Sandy Powell for The Aviator
2005
Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha
2006
Milena Canonero for Marie Antoinette
2007
Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2008
Micheal O'Connor for The Duchess
2009
Sandy Powell for The Young Victoria
(Man, I hope the formatting doesn't get messed up. Thanks for looking! )
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Costume_DesignPhotos:
http://www.costumersguide.com,,
http://www.imdb.com, Google
edit: whoops, some of the photos/text seems to have gone missing. Fixed now! Also there aren't photos for every film, so don't worry if you're not seeing photos beneath every year.