From Hamlet to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has welcomed 90 films, 60 of which have been period/historical, 8 fantasy and 20 contemporary. The job of a costume designer, to seamlessly dress the characters based on their personality and experience is understated, and sometimes, misunderstood work. Why look past the Oscar in their field to pay tribute to some of these designs. I wanted to pace these clips, just so you can get a detailed impression of the work, it might be a bit overlong, but it's the only vid I can find on here that incorporates the B&W Oscars. Maybe it could be a good tool for the right people too.

Music from Laurent Dury's 'Cinematic Elegance.' The songs are, in order: "The Great and the Good," "Ripples in Time," "Moonlight Tryst," "The Dancer in the Keyhole" and "By Night."


All Winners
Hamlet | 1948 | B&W
Roger K. Furse

Joan of Arc | 1948 | Colour
Dorothy Jeakins & Karinska

The Heiress | 1949 | B&W
Edith Head & Gile Steele

Adventures of Don Juan | 1949 | Colour
Leah Rhodes, Travilla & Marjorie Best

All About Eve | 1950 | B&W
Edith Head & Charles LeMaire

Samson and Delilah | 1950 | Colour
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele & Gwen Wakeling

A Place in the Sun | 1951 | B&W
Edith Head

An American in Paris | 1951 | Colour
OrryKelly, Walter Plunkett & Irene Sharaff

The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | B&W
Helen Rose

Moulin Rouge | 1952 | Colour
Marcel Vertès

Roman Holiday | 1953 | B&W
Edith Head

The Robe | 1953 | Colour
Charles LeMaire & Emile Santiago

Sabrina | 1954 | B&W
Edith Head

Gate of Hell | 1954 | Colour
Sanzo Wada

I’ll Cry Tomorrow | 1955 | B&W
Helen Rose

Love Is a ManySplendored Thing | 1955 | Colour
Charles LeMaire

The Solid Gold Cadillac | 1956 | B&W
Jean Louis

The King and I | 1956 | Colour
Irene Sharaff

Les Girls | 1957
OrryKelly

Gigi | 1958
Cecil Beaton

Some Like It Hot | 1959 | B&W
OrryKelly

BenHur | 1959 | Colour
Elizabeth Haffenden

The Facts of Life | 1960 | B&W
Edith Head & Edward Stevenson

Spartacus | 1960 | Colour
Valles & Bill Thomas

La Dolce Vita | 1961 | B&W
Piero Gherardi

West Side Story | 1961 | Colour
Irene Sharaff

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | B&W
Norma Koch

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | 1962 | Colour
Mary Wills

8½ | 1963 | B&W
Piero Gherardi

Cleopatra | 1963 | Colour
Renié, Vittorio Nino Novarese & Irene Sharaff

The Night of the Iguana | 1964 | B&W
Dorothy Jeakins

My Fair Lady | 1964 | Colour
Cecil Beaton

Darling | 1965 | B&W
Julie Harris

Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | Colour
Phyllis Dalton

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | B&W
Irene Sharaff

A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Colour
Elizabeth Haffenden & Joan Bridge

Camelot | 1967
John Truscott

Romeo and Juliet | 1968
Danilo Donati

Anne of the Thousand Days | 1969
Margaret Furse

Cromwell | 1970
Vittorio Nino Novarese

Nicholas and Alexandra | 1971
Yvonne Blake & Antonio Castillo

Travels with My Aunt | 1972
Anthony Powell

The Sting | 1973
Edith Head

The Great Gatsby | 1974
Theoni V. Aldredge

Barry Lyndon | 1975
Milena Canonero & UllaBritt Söderlund

Fellini's Casanova | 1976
Danilo Donati

Star Wars | 1977
John Mollo

Death on the Nile | 1978
Anthony Powell

All That Jazz | 1979
Albert Wolsky

Tess | 1980
Anthony Powell

Chariots of Fire | 1981
Milena Canonero

Gandhi | 1982
Bhanu Athaiya & John Mollo

Fanny and Alexander | 1983
Marik VosLundh

Amadeus | 1984
Theodor Pištěk

Ran | 1985
Emi Wada

A Room with a View | 1986
Jenny Beavan & John Bright

The Last Emperor | 1987
James Acheson

Dangerous Liaisons | 1988
James Acheson

Henry V | 1989
Phyllis Dalton

Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990
Franca Squarciapino

Bugsy | 1991
Albert Wolsky

Bram Stoker’s Dracula | 1992
Eiko Ishioka

The Age of Innocence | 1993
Gabriella Pescucci

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994
Tim Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner

Restoration | 1995
James Acheson

The English Patient | 1996
Ann Roth

Titanic | 1997
Deborah Lynn Scott

Shakespeare in Love | 1998
Sandy Powell

TopsyTurvy | 1999
Lindy Hemming

Gladiator | 2000
Janty Yates

Moulin Rouge! | 2001
Catherine Martin & Angus Strathie

Chicago | 2002
Colleen Atwood

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003
Ngila Dickson & Richard Taylor

The Aviator | 2004
Sandy Powell

Memoirs of a Geisha | 2005
Colleen Atwood

Marie Antoinette | 2006
Milena Canonero

Elizabeth: The Golden Age | 2007
Alexandra Byrne

The Duchess | 2008
Michael O’Connor

The Young Victoria | 2009
Sandy Powell

Alice in Wonderland | 2010
Colleen Atwood

The Artist | 2011
Mark Bridges

Anna Karenina | 2012
Jacqueline Durran

The Great Gatsby | 2013
Catherine Martin

The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014
Milena Canonero

Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015
Jenny Beavan

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 2016
Colleen Atwood

Phantom Thread | 2017
Mark Bridges

Black Panther | 2018
Ruth E. Carter

Little Women | 2019
Jacqueline Durran

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | 2020
Ann Roth