Oscar / Best Costume Design

With the Oscar for best costume design are costume designers honored a film. It was first awarded in this category in 1949. At times there were separate awards for black and white and color films.

statistics
Most frequently honored costume designer	Edith Head (8 wins)
Most frequently nominated costume designer	Edith Head (35 nominations)
Most frequently nominated costume designer without a win	Patricia Norris (6 nominations)

In the table below, the winners are listed according to the year in which they were awarded.

1949-1950

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1949	Black and white: Roger K. Furse	Hamlet	Irene for BF's Daughter
	Color: Dorothy Jeakins Barbara Karinska	Joan of Arc	Edith Head and Gile Steele for I kiss your hand, Madame
1950	Black and white: Edith Head Gile Steele	The heiress	Vittorio Nino Novarese for In the Clutches of Borgia
	Color: Leah Rhodes William Travilla Marjorie Best	Don Juan's love affairs	Kay Nelson for The Love Professor

1951-1960

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1951	Black and white: Edith Head Charles Le Maire	Everything about Eva	Jean Louis for Die Is Not Yesterday Walter Plunkett for The Magnificent Yankee
	Color: Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins Eloise Jensson Gile Steele Gwen Wakeling	Samson and Delilah	Walter Plunkett and Arlington Valles for The Fate of Irene Forsyte Michael Whittaker for The Black Rose
1952	Black and white: Edith Head	A place in the Sun	Lucinda Ballard for Endstation Sehnsucht Charles Le Maire and Renié for The Model and the Marriage Broker Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele for Child Lady Edward Stevenson and Margaret Furse for Der Dreckspatz und die Königin
	Color: Orry-Kelly Walter Plunkett Irene Sharaff	An American in Paris	Hein Heckroth for Hoffmann's stories Charles Le Maire and Edward Stevenson for David and Bathsheba Herschel McCoy for Quo vadis? Helen Rose and Gile Steele for The Great Caruso
1953	Black and white: Helen Rose	City of Illusions	Edith Head for Carrie Charles Le Maire and Dorothy Jeakins for My Cousin Rachel Jean Louis for Affair in Trinidad Sheila O'Brien for Masked Hearts
	Color: Marcel Vértes	Moulin Rouge	Antoni Clavé , Mary Wills and Barbara Karinska for Hans Christian Andersen and the dancers Edith Head , Dorothy Jeakins and Miles White for The Greatest Show in the World Charles Le Maire for With a Song in the Heart Helen Rose and Gile Steele for The Merry Widow
1954	Black and white: Edith Head	A heart and a crown	Charles Le Maire and William Travilla for Companion of a Lifetime Jean Louis for Damned For All Eternity Walter Plunkett for Theater Fever Helen Rose and Herschel McCoy for You and No One else
	Color: Charles Le Maire Emile Santiago	The robe	Charles Le Maire and William Travilla for How Do You Fish a Millionaire? Mary Ann Nyberg for curtain up! Walter Plunkett for the heir to the throne Irene Sharaff for Madame makes history (s)
1955	Black and white: Edith Head	Sabrina	Georges Annenkov and Rosine Delamare for Madame de… Christian Dior for Rome, Termini Jean Louis for The Incredible Story of Gladys Glover Helen Rose for The Intriguers
	Color: Sanzo Wada	The gate of hell	Charles Le Maire and René Hubert for Desirée Charles Le Maire , William Travilla and Miles White for Rhythm in Blood Jean Louis , Mary Ann Nyberg and Irene Sharaff for A New Star in the Sky Irene Sharaff for Brigadoon
1956	Black and white: Helen Rose	And tomorrow I'll cry	Beatrice Dawson for Mr. Pickwick Edith Head for The Tattooed Rose Tadaoto Kainosho for Ugetsu - Tales under the Rainmoon Jean Louis for Shackled Marriage
	Color: Charles Le Maire	All glory on earth	Edith Head for Above the Roofs of Nice Charles Le Maire and Mary Wills for The Virgin Queen Helen Rose for Interrupted Melody Irene Sharaff for Heavy Boys - Easy Girls
1957	Black and white: Jean Louis	The woman in the golden Cadillac	Kōhei Ezaki for The Seven Samurai Edith Head for Also Heroes Can Cry Charles Le Maire and Mary Wills for Modern Youth Helen Rose for The Power and the Prize
	Color: Irene Sharaff	The king and me	Maria De Matteis for War and Peace Edith Head , Ralph Jester , John Jensen , Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg for The Ten Commandments Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best for Giants Miles White for Around the World in 80 Days
1958	Orry-Kelly	The girls	Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy for A Sweet Face Charles Le Maire for The Great Love of My Life Jean Louis for Pal Joey Walter Plunkett for The Land of the Rain Tree
1959	Cecil Beaton	Gigi	Ralph Jester , Edith Head and John Jensen for King of the Buccaneers Charles Le Maire and Mary Wills for A Certain Smile Jean Louis for My Bride Is Psychic Walter Plunkett for Damn They All
1960	Black and white: Orry-Kelly	Some like it hot	Edith Head for Many are called Charles Le Maire and Mary Wills for The Diary of Anne Frank Helen Rose for The Nerve Sucker Howard Shoup for The Man From Philadelphia
	Color: Elizabeth Haffenden	Ben Hur	Edith Head for Five Pennies Adele Palmer for All My Dreams Renié for The Fisherman of Galilee Irene Sharaff for Porgy and Bess

1961-1970

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1961	Black and white: Edith Head Edward Stevenson	Such an affair	Theoni V. Aldredge for Sundays ... never! Howard Shoup for JD, the killer Bill Thomas for Seven Thieves, Marik Vos-Lundh for Die Jungfrauenquelle
	Color: Arlington Valles Bill Thomas	Spartacus	Marjorie Best for Sunrise at Campobello Edith Head for Pepe - What can the world cost Irene for midnight peaks Irene Sharaff for Can Can
1962	Black and white: Piero Gherardi	The sweet life	Dorothy Jeakins for Infam Jean Louis for The Judgment of Nuremberg Yoshirō Muraki for Yojimbo - The bodyguard Howard Shoup for Claudelle and her lovers
	Color: Irene Sharaff	West Side Story	Edith Head and Walter Plunkett for The Lower Ten Thousand Jean Louis for Paris Terminus Irene Sharaff for Almond Eyes and Lotus Blossoms Bill Thomas for Riot in Toy Land
1963	Black and white: Norma Koch	What really happened to Baby Jane?	Theoni V. Aldredge for Phaedra Edith Head for Der Mann, der Liberty Valance shot Ruth Morley for Licht im Dunkel Donfeld for The Days of Wine and Roses
	Color: Mary Wills	The wonder world of the Brothers Grimm	Edith Head for My Geisha Dorothy Jeakins for Music Man Orry-Kelly for Gypsy - Queen of the Night Bill Thomas for Champagne in Paris
1964	Black and white: Piero Gherardi	Eight and a half	Edith Head for In Love with a Stranger Edith Head for Oh darling ... not here! Bill Thomas for Dolls Under the Roof William Travilla for The Lost Rose
	Color: Irene Sharaff Vittorio Nino Novarese Renié	Cleopatra	Donald Brooks for The Cardinal Edith Head for A New Kind of Love Walter Plunkett for That Was the Wild West Piero Tosi for The Leopard
1965	Black and white: Dorothy Jeakins	The night of the iguana	Edith Head for Madame P. and her girls René Hubert for The Visit Norma Koch for Lullaby for a corpse Howard Shoup for Prince Consort in the White House
	Color: Cecil Beaton	My fair lady	Margaret Furse for Becket Morton Haack for The Unsinkable Molly Brown Edith Head and Moss Mabry for What a Way to Tony Walton for Mary Poppins
1966	Black and white: Julie Harris	Darling	Edith Head for voice on the phone Moss Mabry for Morituri Howard Shoup for Nymphomania Bill Thomas and Jean Louis for Das Narrenschiff
	Color: Phyllis Dalton	Doctor Zhivago	Edith Head and Bill Thomas for Damned, Sweet World Dorothy Jeakins for My Songs - My Dreams Vittorio Nino Novarese and Marjorie Best for The Greatest Story of All Time Vittorio Nino Novarese for Michelangelo - Inferno and Ecstasy
1967	Black and white: Irene Sharaff	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Danilo Donati for Mandragola or The Lover as a Doctor Danilo Donati for The 1st Gospel - Matthäus Jocelyn Rickards for Protest Helen Rose for a face without a name
	Color: Elizabeth Haffenden Joan Bridge	A man for every season	Piero Gherardi for Julia and the ghosts Edith Head for … because no one is to blame Dorothy Jeakins for Hawaii Jean Louis for The Girl from the Cherry Bar
1968	John Truscott	Camelot - At the court of King Arthur	Jean Louis for Modern Millie - Reicher Mann wanted Irene Sharaff and Danilo Donati for The Taming of the Shrew Bill Thomas for The Happiest Millionaire Theadora Van Runkle for Bonnie and Clyde
1969	Danilo Donati	Romeo and Juliet	Donald Brooks for Star! Phyllis Dalton for Oliver Margaret Furse for The Lion in Winter Morton Haack for Planet of the Apes
1970	Margaret Furse	Queen for a thousand days	Ray Aghayan for Gaily, Gaily Edith Head for Sweet Charity Irene Sharaff for Hello, Dolly! Donfeld for only horses is given the coup de grace

1971-1980

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1971	Vittorio Nino Novarese	Cromwell - War to the King	Donald Brooks and Jack Bear for Darling Lili Margaret Furse for Scrooge Edith Head for Airport Bill Thomas for Rulers of the Island
1972	Yvonne Blake Antonio Castillo	Nikolaus and Alexandra	Margaret Furse for Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland Morton Haack for What's the matter with Helen? Bill Thomas for The Daredevil Witch in Her Flying Bed Piero Tosi for Death in Venice
1973	Anthony Powell	Traveling with my aunt	Anna Hill Johnstone for The Godfather Bob Mackie , Ray Aghayan and Norma Koch for Lady Sings the Blues Anthony Mendleson for The Young Lion Paul Zastupnevich for Die Höllenfahrt der Poseidon
1974	Edith Head	The highlight	Donfeld for Tom Sawyer's adventure Dorothy Jeakins and Moss Mabry for Just Like We Were Piero Tosi for Ludwig II Marik Vos-Lundh for screams and whispers
1975	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Great Gatsby	John Furniss for Daisy Miller Anthea Sylbert for Chinatown Theadora Van Runkle for The Godfather - Part II Tony Walton for Murder on the Orient Express
1976	Ulla-Britt Söderlund Milena Canonero	Barry Lyndon	Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie for Funny Lady Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky for The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of My Lady Edith Head for The Man Who Wanted to Be King Henny Noremark and Karin Erskine for The Magic Flute
1977	Danilo Donati	Fellini's Casanova	Alan Barrett for No Coke for Sherlock Holmes Anthony Mendleson for The Incredible Sarah William Ware Theiss for This Land is My Land Mary Wills for Jesus of Nazareth
1978	John Mollo	war of stars	Edith Head and Burton Miller for Lost in the Bermuda Triangle Florence Klotz for The Smile of a Summer Night Irene Sharaff for Beyond Midnight Anthea Sylbert for Julia
1979	Anthony Powell	Death on the Nile	Patricia Norris for In der Glut des Südens Tony Walton for The Wiz - The Magical Land Paul Zastupnevich for Der tödliche Schwarm Renié for Caravans
1980	Albert Wolsky	Behind the spotlight	Judy Moorcroft for The Europeans Shirley Russell for The Secret of Agatha Christie William Ware Theiss for Butch and Sundance - The Early Years Piero Tosi and Ambra Danon for A Cage Full of Fools

1981-1990

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1981	Anthony Powell	Tess	Jean-Pierre Dorléac for A Deadly Dream Patricia Norris for The Elephant Man Anna Senior for My Brilliant Career Paul Zastupnevich for The Day When the World Ended
1982	Milena Canonero	The hour of the victor	Anna Hill Johnstone for Ragtime Bob Mackie for Dance in the Clouds Tom Rand for The Beloved of French Lieutenant Shirley Russell for Reds
1983	John Mollo Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi	Eloise Jensson and Rosanna Norton for Tron Patricia Norris for Victor / Victoria Piero Tosi for La Traviata Albert Wolsky for Sophie's decision
1984	Marik Vos-Lundh	Fanny and Alexander	Santo Loquasto for Zelig Anne-Marie Marchand for The Return of Martin Guerre William Ware Theiss for … and when the last tire blows Joe I. Tompkins for Cross Creek
1985	Theodor Pištěk	Amadeus	Jenny Beavan and John Bright for The Ladies from Boston Judy Moorcroft for Trip to India Patricia Norris for 2010: The Year We Contact Ann Roth for A Place in the Heart
1986	Emi Wada	Ran	Milena Canonero for Out of Africa Aggie Guerard Rodgers for Die Farbe Lila Albert Wolsky for Die Abenteuer der Natty Gann Donfeld for Die Ehre der Prizzis
1987	Jenny Beavan John Bright	room with view	Anna Anni and Maurizio Millenotti for Otello Anthony Powell for Pirates Enrico Sabbatini for Mission Theadora Van Runkle for Peggy Sue got married
1988	James Acheson	The last emperor	Jenny Beavan and John Bright for Maurice Dorothy Jeakins for The Dead Bob Ringwood for The Kingdom of the Sun Marilyn Vance for The Untouchables - The Untouchables
1989	James Acheson	Dangerous romances	Milena Canonero for Tucker Deborah Nadoolman for The Prince of Zamunda Patricia Norris for Sunset Jane Robinson for A Handful of Dust
1990	Phyllis Dalton	Henry V.	Elizabeth McBride for Miss Daisy and her chauffeur Gabriella Pescucci for The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen Theodor Pištěk for Valmont Joe I. Tompkins for Harlem Nights

1991-2000

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1991	Franca Squarciapino	Cyrano de Bergerac	Milena Canonero for Dick Tracy Gloria Gresham for Avalon Maurizio Millenotti for Hamlet Elsa Zamparelli for Dances with Wolves
1992	Albert Wolsky	Bugsy	Richard Hornung for Barton Fink Corinne Jorry for Madame Bovary Ruth Myers for Addams Family Anthony Powell for Hook
1993	Eiko Ishioka	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Jenny Beavan and John Bright for See you in Howards End Ruth E. Carter for Malcolm X Sheena Napier for Bewitched April Albert Wolsky for Toys
1994	Gabriella Pescucci	Time of innocence	Jenny Beavan and John Bright for What Was Left Of The Day, Janet Patterson for The Piano Sandy Powell for Orlando Anna B. Sheppard for Schindler's List
1995	Lizzy Gardiner Tim Chappel	Priscilla - queen of the desert	Colleen Atwood for Betty and her sisters Moidele Bickel for Bartholomäusnacht April Ferry for Maverick - the Colt on your belt, an ace up your sleeve Jeffrey Kurland for Bullets Over Broadway
1996	James Acheson	Restoration - time of sensuality	Jenny Beavan and John Bright for Sense and Sensibility Shuna Harwood for Richard III. Charles Knode for Braveheart Julie Weiss for 12 Monkeys
1997	Ann Roth	The English patient	Paul Brown for Angels and Insects Alexandra Byrne for Hamlet Ruth Myers for Jane Austen's Emma Janet Patterson for Portrait of a Lady
1998	Deborah Lynn Scott	Titanic	Ruth E. Carter for Amistad Dante Ferretti for Kundun Janet Patterson for Oscar and Lucinda Sandy Powell for Wings of the Dove
1999	Sandy Powell	Shakespeare in Love	Colleen Atwood for Human Child Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth Judianna Makovsky for Pleasantville - Too good to be true Sandy Powell for Velvet Goldmine
2000	Lindy Hemming	Topsy-Turvy - turned upside down	Colleen Atwood for Sleepy Hollow - Heads Will Roll Jenny Beavan for Anna and the King Milena Canonero for Titus Ann Roth and Gary Jones for The Talented Mr. Ripley

2001-2010

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2001	Janty Yates	gladiator	Anthony Powell for 102 Dalmatians Rita Ryack for The Grinch Jacqueline West for Quills Timmy Yip for Tiger and Dragon
2002	Catherine Martin Angus Strathie	Moulin Rouge	Jenny Beavan for Gosford Park Milena Canonero for The Necklace of Queen Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Judianna Makovsky for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2003	Colleen Atwood	Chicago	Sandy Powell for Gangs of New York Ann Roth for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity Anna B. Sheppard for The Pianist Julie Weiss for Frida
2004	Ngila Dickson Richard Taylor	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Ngila Dickson for Last Samurai Judianna Makovsky for Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success Wendy Stites for Master & Commander - To the End of the World Dien van Straalen for The Girl with the Pearl Earring
2005	Sandy Powell	Aviator	Colleen Atwood for Lemony Snicket, Alexandra Byrne for When Dreams Learn To Fly, Sharen Davis for Ray Bob Ringwood for Troy
2006	Colleen Atwood	The geisha	Jacqueline Durran for pride and prejudice Gabriella Pescucci for Charlie and the chocolate factory Arianne Phillips for Walk the Line Sandy Powell for Lady Henderson presents
2007	Milena Canonero	Marie Antoinette	Consolata Boyle for The Queen Sharen Davis for Dreamgirls Patricia Field for The Devil Wears Prada Chung Man Yee for The Curse of the Golden Flower
2008	Alexandra Byrne	Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom	Albert Wolsky for Across the Universe Jacqueline Durran for Atonement Marit Allen for La vie en rose Colleen Atwood for Sweeney Todd - The devilish barber from Fleet Street
2009	Michael O'Connor	The Duchess	Catherine Martin for Australia Jacqueline West for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Danny Glicker for Milk Albert Wolsky for Times of Troubles
2010	Sandy Powell	Victoria, the young queen	Janet Patterson for Bright Star Catherine Leterrier for Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion Monique Prudhomme for The Cabinet of Doctor Parnassus Colleen Atwood for Nine

2011-2020

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2011	Colleen Atwood	Alice in Wonderland	Antonella Cannarozzi for I Am Love Jenny Beavan for The King's Speech Sandy Powell for The Tempest - Der Sturm Mary Zophres for True Grit
2012	Mark Bridges	The Artist	Lisy Christl for Anonymus Michael O'Connor for Jane Eyre Arianne Phillips for WE Sandy Powell for Hugo Cabret
2013	Jacqueline Durran	Anna Karenina	Paco Delgado for Les Misérables Joanna Johnston for Lincoln Eiko Ishioka for Spieglein Spieglein - The Really True Story of Snow White Colleen Atwood for Snow White and the Huntsman
2014	Catherine Martin	The Great Gatsby	Patricia Norris for 12 Years a Slave Michael Wilkinson for American Hustle William Chang Suk Ping for The Grandmaster Michael O'Connor for The Invisible Woman
2015	Milena Canonero	Grand Budapest Hotel	Mark Bridges for Inherent Vice - Natural Defects Colleen Atwood for Into the Woods Anna B. Sheppard for Maleficent - The Dark Fairy Jacqueline Durran for Mr. Turner - Master of Light
2016	Jenny Beavan	Mad Max: Fury Road	Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl Jacqueline West for The Revenant - The returnee Sandy Powell for Carol Sandy Powell for Cinderella
2017	Colleen Atwood	Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them	Joanna Johnston for Allied - Familiar Strangers Consolata Boyle for Florence Foster Jenkins Madeline Fontaine for Jackie: The First Lady Mary Zophres for La La Land
2018	Mark Bridges	The silk thread	Jacqueline Durran for Beauty and the Beast Jacqueline Durran for The Darkest Hour Luis Sequeira for Shape of Water - The Whisper of Water Consolata Boyle for Victoria & Abdul
2019	Ruth E. Carter	Black panther	Mary Zophres for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sandy Powell for The Favorite Intrigue and Insanity Sandy Powell for Mary Poppins' Return Alexandra Byrne for Mary Queen of Scots
2020	Jacqueline Durran	Little Women	Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson for The Irishman Mayes C. Rubeo for Jojo Rabbit Mark Bridges for Joker Arianne Phillips for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood