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Every Oscar Winner for Best Costume Design—Ever

By Hannah Jackson
Every Oscar Winner for Best Costume Design—Ever
Photo: Everett Collection

Who would Dorothy be without her ruby red slippers, Princess Leia without her white dress, Edward Scissorhands without his…scissor hands? Ahead of Replica Handbag Store World 2025: Hollywood, we’ve been thinking about the fashion that brings these stories to life.

Throughout the Academy Awards’ 98 years of existence, the Oscar for Best Costume Design has been given 95 times. But the award itself didn’t exist until 1949—a full 20 years after the first-ever ceremony. From 1949 to 1957 and 1960 to 1967, two trophies were awarded for costuming—one for black-and-white films and one for color.

Amongst the winners, you’ll recognize (or learn!) the people who revolutionized costuming: Edith Head, the eight-time winner who fashioned some of Audrey Hepburn’s most iconic characters in Sabrina and Roman Holiday; or Irene Sharaff, who was responsible for Elizabeth Taylor’s opulent costuming in Cleopatra and Anita’s famous purple dress in West Side Story; Milena Canonero, meanwhile, has become the modern master of the period piece, from Barry Lyndon to Marie Antoinette.

In chronicling every Best Costume Design winner, one can’t help but notice patterns: the Academy’s love of Shakespeare (the first-ever winner, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare in Love), futurism (both Black Panther films, Mad Max: Fury Road), and period pieces galore. Another standout? The Great Gatsby, which won costume design Oscars in 1974 and 2013.

Below, see every single Oscar winner for Best Costume Design, from 1948 through the present.

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    2025, Frankenstein

    Kate Hawley

  • Paul Tazewell
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    2024, Wicked

    Paul Tazewell

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    2023, Poor Things

    Holly Waddington

  • Ruth E. Carter
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    2022, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Ruth E. Carter

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    2021, Cruella

    Jenny Beavan

  • Ann Roth
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    2020, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

    Ann Roth

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    2019, Little Women

    Jacqueline Durran

  • Ruth E. Carter
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    2018, Black Panther

    Ruth E. Carter

  • Mark Bridges
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    2017, Phantom Thread

    Mark Bridges

  • Colleen Atwood
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    2016, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    Colleen Atwood

  • Jenny Beavan
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    2015, Mad Max: Fury Road

    Jenny Beavan

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    2014, The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Milena Canonero

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    2013, The Great Gatsby

    Catherine Martin

  • Jacqueline Durran
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    2012, Anna Karenina

    Jacqueline Durran

  • Mark Bridges
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    2011, The Artist

    Mark Bridges

  • Colleen Atwood
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    2010, Alice in Wonderland

    Colleen Atwood

  • Sandy Powell
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    2009, The Young Victoria

    Sandy Powell

  • Michael OConnor
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    2008, The Duchess

    Michael O’Connor

  • Alexandra Byrne
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    2007, Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    Alexandra Byrne

  • Milena Canonero
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    2006, Marie Antoinette

    Milena Canonero

  • Colleen Atwood
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    2005, Memoirs of a Geisha

    Colleen Atwood

  • Sandy Powell
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    2004, The Aviator

    Sandy Powell

  • Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
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    2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

  • Colleen Atwood
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    2002, Chicago

    Colleen Atwood

  • Moulin Rouge Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie
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    2001, Moulin Rouge!

    Moulin Rouge!, Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie

  • Janty Yates
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    2000, Gladiator

    Janty Yates

  • Lindy Hemming
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    1999, Topsy-Turvy

    Lindy Hemming

  • Sandy Powell
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    1998, Shakespeare in Love

    Sandy Powell

  • Deborah Lynn Scott
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    1997, Titanic

    Deborah Lynn Scott

  • Ann Roth
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    1996, The English Patient

    Ann Roth

  • James Acheson
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    1995, Restoration

    James Acheson

  • Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner
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    1994, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner

  • Gabriella Pescucci
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    1993, The Age of Innocence

    Gabriella Pescucci

  • Eiko Ishioka
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    1992, Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    Eiko Ishioka

  • Albert Wolsky
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    1991, Bugsy

    Albert Wolsky

  • Franca Squarciapino
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    1990, Cyrano de Bergerac

    Franca Squarciapino

  • Phyllis Dalton
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    1989, Henry V

    Phyllis Dalton

  • James Acheson
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    1988, Dangerous Liaisons

    James Acheson

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    1987, The Last Emperor

    James Acheson

  • Jenny Beavan and John Bright
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    1986, A Room With a View

    Jenny Beavan and John Bright

  • Emi Wada
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    1985, Ran

    Emi Wada

  • Theodor Pištěk
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    1984, Amadeus

    Theodor Pištěk

  • Marik VosLundh
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    1983, Fanny and Alexander

    Marik Vos-Lundh

  • Bhanu Athaiya and John Mollo
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    1982, Gandhi

    Bhanu Athaiya and John Mollo

  • Milena Canonero
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    1981, Chariots of Fire

    Milena Canonero

  • Anthony Powell
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    1980, Tess

    Anthony Powell

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    1979, All That Jazz

    All That Jazz, Albert Wolsky

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    1978, Death on the Nile

    Anthony powell

  • John Mollo
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    1977, Star Wars

    John Mollo

  • Danilo Donati
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    1976, Fellini’s Casanova

    Danilo Donati

  • Milena Canonero and UllaBritt Söderlund
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    1975, Barry Lyndon

    Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund

  • Theoni V. Aldredge
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    1974, The Great Gatsby

    Theoni V. Aldredge

  • Edith Head
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    1973, The Sting

    Edith Head

  • Anthony Powell
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    1972, Travels with My Aunt

    Anthony Powell

  • Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
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    1971, Nicholas and Alexandra

    Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo

  • Vittorio Nino Novarese
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    1970, Cromwell

    Vittorio Nino Novarese

  • Margaret Furse
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    1969, Anne of the Thousand Days

    Margaret Furse

  • Danilo Donati
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    1968, Romeo and Juliet

    Danilo Donati

  • John Truscott
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    1967, Camelot

    John Truscott

  • Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge
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    1966 (Color), A Man for All Seasons

    Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge

  • Irene Sharaff
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    1966 (Black & White), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Irene Sharaff

  • Phyllis Dalton
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    1965 (Color), Dr. Zhivago

    Phyllis Dalton

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    1965 (Black & White), Darling

    Julie Harris

  • Cecil Beaton
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    1964 (Color), My Fair Lady

    Cecil Beaton

  • Dorothy Jeakins
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    1964 (Black & White), The Night of the Iguana

    Dorothy Jeakins

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    1963 (Color), Cleopatra

    Renié, Vittorio Nino Novarese, and Irene Sharaff

  • Piero Gherardi
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    1963 (Black & White), 8½

    Piero Gherardi

  • Mary Wills
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    1962 (Color), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

    Mary Wills

  • Norma Koch
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    1962 (Black & White), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    Norma Koch

  • Irene Sharaff
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    1961 (Color), West Side Story

    Irene Sharaff

  • Piero Gherardi
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    1961 (Black & White), La Dolce Vita

    Piero Gherardi

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    1960 (Color), Spartacus

    Valles and Bill Thomas

  • Edith Head and Edward Stevenson
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    1960 (Black & White), The Facts of Life

    Edith Head and Edward Stevenson

  • Elizabeth Haffenden
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    1959 (Color), Ben-Hur

    Elizabeth Haffenden

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    1959 (Black & White), Some Like It Hot

    Orry-Kelly

  • Cecil Beaton
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    1958, Gigi

    Cecil Beaton

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    1957, Les Girls

    Les Girls, Orry-Kelly

  • Irene Sharaff
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    1956 (Color), The King and I

    Irene Sharaff

  • Jean Louis
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    1956 (Black & White), The Solid Gold Cadillac

    Jean Louis

  • Charles LeMaire
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    1955 (Color), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    Charles LeMaire

  • Helen Rose
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    1955 (Black & White), I’ll Cry Tomorrow

    Helen Rose

  • Sanzo Wada
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    1954 (Color), Gate of Hell

    Sanzo Wada

  • Edith Head
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    1954 (Black & White), Sabrina

    Edith Head

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    1953 (Color), The Robe

    Charles LeMaire and Emile Santiago

  • Edith Head
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    1953 (Black & White), Roman Holiday

    Edith Head

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    1952 (Color), Moulin Rouge

    Marcel Vertès

  • Helen Rose
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    1952 (Black & White), The Bad and the Beautiful

    Helen Rose

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    1951 (Color), An American in Paris

    Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff

  • Edith Head
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    1951 (Black & White), A Place in the Sun

    Edith Head

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    1950 (Color), Samson and Delilah

    Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling

  • Edith Head and Charles LeMaire
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    1950 (Black & White), All About Eve

    Edith Head and Charles LeMaire

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    1949 (Color), Adventures of Don Juan

    Leah Rhodes, Travilla, and Marjorie Best

  • Edith Head and Gile Steele
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    1949 (Black & White), The Heiress

    Edith Head and Gile Steele

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    1948 (Color), Joan of Arc

    Dorothy Jeakins and Karinska

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    1948 (Black & White), Hamlet

    Roger K. Furse

Hannah Jackson is a fashion writer at Vogue, where she covers celebrity style, trends, and occasionally culture. Her work has also appeared in Elle, The Cut, Architectural Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, W, and elsewhere. She lives in New York. ... Read More
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