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Films whose production designer won the Best Production Design Academy Award

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Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage. The ensemble cast includes Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.
Avatar (2009 film)
Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.
Schindler's List
1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Gone with the Wind
1939 film directed by Victor Fleming
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
1977 film directed by George Lucas
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film by Peter Jackson
The Godfather Part II
1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Ben-Hur
1959 American epic historical drama film by William Wyler
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 film directed by David Lean
Black Panther
2018 film directed by Ryan Coogler
Shakespeare in Love
1998 film by John Madden
La La Land
2016 film directed by Damien Chazelle
Alice in Wonderland
2010 film directed by Tim Burton
Amadeus
1984 film directed by Miloš Forman
The English Patient
1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella
The Shape of Water
2017 film by Guillermo del Toro
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 period action comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his adrenaline junkie stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the threat of the Tate murders looming.
Dune (2021 film)
Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.
Gandhi
1982 film directed by Richard Attenborough
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 film by Ang Lee
Spartacus
1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
The Aviator
2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Batman
1989 film directed by Tim Burton
Chicago
2002 film by Rob Marshall
Hugo
2011 historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 film by David Fincher
The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
On the Waterfront
1954 film by Elia Kazan
Out of Africa
1985 film by Sydney Pollack
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 film directed by George Miller
Doctor Zhivago
1965 film directed by David Lean
My Fair Lady
1964 film by George Cukor
Sunset Boulevard
1950 film by Billy Wilder
The Great Gatsby
2013 film directed by Baz Luhrmann
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 film directed by Wes Anderson
Moulin Rouge!
2001 film directed by Baz Luhrmann
An American in Paris
1951 film directed by Vincente Minnelli
Barry Lyndon
1975 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Pan's Labyrinth
2006 film by Guillermo del Toro
Lincoln
2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg
The Apartment
1960 film directed by Billy Wilder
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 film by Tim Burton
West Side Story
1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
How Green Was My Valley
1941 film by John Ford
Patton
1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
The Sting
1973 film by George Roy Hill
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 film by Robert Mulligan
Sleepy Hollow
1999 film by Tim Burton
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 film directed by Elia Kazan
All the President's Men
1976 film by Alan J. Pakula
Cimarron
1931 film by Wesley Ruggles
Fanny and Alexander
1982 film by Ingmar Bergman
Poor Things
2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 film directed by Rob Marshall
Zorba the Greek
1964 film by Michael Cacoyannis
Cabaret
1972 film by Bob Fosse
Cavalcade
1933 film by Frank Lloyd
Cleopatra
1963 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Wicked (2024 film)
Wicked is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively; while Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum appear in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.