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The 1950s

Production design & set decoration nominations from 1950–1959.

104 nominations 28 wins 120 unique honorees 4 award bodies

Latest harvest: 2026-05-13

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Most-decorated in the 1950s

1 Lyle R. Wheeler 19 noms · 3 wins
2 Edwin B. Willis 18 noms · 4 wins
3 Cedric Gibbons 17 noms · 4 wins
4 Samuel M. Comer 12 noms · 3 wins
5 Walter M. Scott 12 noms · 3 wins
6 Hal Pereira 11 noms · 1 win
7 F. Keogh Gleason 7 noms · 4 wins
8 John DeCuir 7 noms · 1 win
9 Thomas Little 7 noms · 0 wins
10 Edward Carfagno 6 noms · 3 wins
11 Ray Moyer 6 noms · 2 wins
12 William A. Horning 6 noms · 2 wins
13 Arthur Krams 6 noms · 1 win
14 E. Preston Ames 5 noms · 2 wins
15 George Davis 5 noms · 2 wins
16 Hugh Hunt 5 noms · 1 win
17 Walter H. Tyler 5 noms · 1 win
18 Leland Fuller 5 noms · 0 wins
19 Paul Groesse 4 noms · 0 wins
20 Mario Chiari 3 noms · 3 wins
21 Richard Day 3 noms · 2 wins
22 Henry Grace 3 noms · 1 win
23 Hans Peters 3 noms · 0 wins
24 Jack D. Moore 3 noms · 0 wins
25 Joseph C. Wright 3 noms · 0 wins

Academy Awards 84 noms

★ 1959Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss — The Diary of Anne Frank
★ 1959William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno — Ben-Hur
· 1959Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams — Career
· 1959Carl Anderson, William Kiernan — The Last Angry Man
· 1959Ted Haworth, Edward G. Boyle — Some Like It Hot
· 1959Oliver Messel, William Kellner, Scott Slimon — Suddenly, Last Summer
· 1959John DeCuir, Julia Heron — The Big Fisherman
· 1959Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, Joseph Kish — Journey to the Center of the Earth
· 1959William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy — North by Northwest
· 1959Richard H. Riedel, Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt — Pillow Talk
★ 1958William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason — Gigi
· 1958Malcolm Bert, George James Hopkins — Auntie Mame
· 1958Cary Odell, Louis Diage — Bell, Book and Candle
· 1958Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott — A Certain Smile
· 1958Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Samuel M. Comer, Frank McKelvy — Vertigo
★ 1957Ted Haworth — Sayonara
· 1957Hal Pereira, George Davis, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — Funny Face
· 1957William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle — Les Girls
· 1957Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage — Pal Joey
· 1957William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt — Raintree County
★ 1956Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason — Somebody Up There Likes Me
★ 1956Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott — The King and I
· 1956So Matsuyama — Seven Samurai
· 1956Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy — The Proud and Profane
· 1956Ross Bellah, William Kiernan, Louis Diage — The Solid Gold Cadillac
· 1956Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss — Teenage Rebel
· 1956James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam, Ross J. Dowd — Around the World in 80 Days
· 1956Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst — Giant
· 1956Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason — Lust for Life
· 1956Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — The Ten Commandments
★ 1955Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams — The Rose Tattoo
★ 1955William Flannery, Jo Mielziner — Picnic
· 1955Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace — Blackboard Jungle
· 1955Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt — I'll Cry Tomorrow
· 1955Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera — The Man with the Golden Arm
· 1955Edward S. Haworth, Walter M. Simonds, Robert Priestley — Marty
· 1955Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott — Daddy Long Legs
· 1955Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol — Guys and Dolls
· 1955Lyle R. Wheeler, George Davis, Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs — Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
· 1955Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams — To Catch a Thief
★ 1954Richard Day — On the Waterfront
★ 1954John Meehan — 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
· 1954Roland Anderson, Hal Pereira, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory — The Country Girl
· 1954Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri — Executive Suite
· 1954Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — Sabrina
· 1954Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason — Brigadoon
· 1954Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott — Desiree
· 1954Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — Red Garters
· 1954Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff, George James Hopkins — A Star Is Born
★ 1953Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons, Hugh Hunt, Edwin B. Willis — Julius Caesar
★ 1953George Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler, Walter M. Scott — The Robe
· 1953Paul Markwitz, Fritz Maurischat — Martin Luther
· 1953Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler — The President's Lady
· 1953Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler — Roman Holiday
· 1953Maurice Ransford, Lyle R. Wheeler, Stuart Reiss — Titanic
· 1953Alfred Junge, Hans Peters, John Jarvis — Knights of the Round Table
· 1953Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Arthur Krams, Edwin B. Willis — Lili
· 1953E. Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons, Gabriel Scognamillo, F. Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore, Edwin B. Willis — The Story of Three Loves
· 1953Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Jack D. Moore, Edwin B. Willis — Young Bess
★ 1952Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, Edwin B. Willis — The Bad and the Beautiful
★ 1952Paul Sheriff — Moulin Rouge
· 1952Roland Anderson, Hal Pereira, Emile Kuri — Carrie
· 1952John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler, Walter M. Scott — My Cousin Rachel
· 1952So Matsuyama, H. Motsumoto — Rashomon
· 1952Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler, Claude E. Carpenter, Thomas Little — Viva Zapata!
· 1952Richard Day, Howard Bristol — Hans Christian Andersen
· 1952Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Arthur Krams, Edwin B. Willis — The Merry Widow
· 1952Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy Jr., Charles S. Thompson — The Quiet Man
· 1952John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little — The Snows of Kilimanjaro
★ 1951Richard Day — A Streetcar Named Desire
★ 1951E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason — An American in Paris
· 1951Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode — Fourteen Hours
· 1951John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little — The House on Telegraph Hill
· 1951Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore — Too Young to Kiss
· 1951George Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little — David and Bathsheba
· 1951Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott — On the Riviera
· 1951Edward Carfagno, Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning, Hugh Hunt — Quo Vadis
· 1951Hein Heckroth — The Tales of Hoffmann
★ 1950Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — Sunset Boulevard
★ 1950Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer — Samson and Delilah
· 1950George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott — All About Eve
· 1950Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt — The Red Danube
· 1950Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle — Annie Get Your Gun
· 1950Ernst Fegté, George Sawley — Destination Moon

Mainichi Film Awards 10 noms

· 1959Takatoshi Suzuki — Naniwa no Koi no Monogatari
· 1958Atsuji Shibata — The Snowy Heron
· 1957Yoshirō Muraki — Throne of Blood
· 1956Satoru Chūko — Nagareru
· 1955Juichi Itō — Tasogare Sakaba
· 1954Takeo Kimura — A Certain Woman
· 1953Kisaku Itō — Ugetsu
· 1952Kazumi Koike — Nishijin no Shimai
· 1951Kazuo Kubo — Dokkoi Ikiteru
· 1950Hiroshi Mizutani — Itsuwareru Gisō

Nastro d'Argento 6 noms

★ 1958Mario Chiari, Mario Garbuglia — Le notti bianche
★ 1957Mario Chiari — Guerra e pace
★ 1955Mario Chiari — Carosello napoletano
★ 1954Pek Avolio — Cronache di poveri amanti
★ 1951Guido Fiorini — Miracolo a Milano
★ 1950Aldo Tomassini, Léon Barsacq — La bellezza del diavolo

Filmfare Awards 4 noms

★ 1959Sudhendu Roy — Madhumati
★ 1958M. R. Acharekar — Pardesi
★ 1957Kanu Desai — Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
★ 1956Rusi Banker — Mirza Ghalib