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Most Wins for Production Design

This list features production designers that have won the most Best Production Design awards at the Academy Awards.

RANK

ART DIRECTORS

NOMINATIONS

WINS

FILMS

1

Cedric Gibbons

39

11

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

The Merry Widow (1934)

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Gaslight (1944)

The Yearling (1946)

Little Women (1949)

An American in Paris (1951)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Julius Caesar (1953)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

2

Edwin B. Willis

32

8

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Gaslight (1944)

The Yearling (1946)

Little Women (1949)

An American in Paris (1951)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Julius Caesar (1953)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

3

Richard Day

20

7

The Dark Angel (1935)

Dodsworth (1936)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

My Gal Sal (1942)

This Above All (1942)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

On the Waterfront (1954)

4

Thomas Little

21

6

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

My Gal Sal (1942)

This Above All (1942)

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Wilson (1944)

Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

5

Walter M. Scott

21

6

The Robe (1953)

The King and I (1956)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Cleopatra (1963)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

6

Lyle R. Wheeler

29

5

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

The Robe (1953)

The King and I (1956)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

7

Samuel M. Comer

26

4

Frenchman’s Creek (1944)

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

8

George James Hopkins

13

4

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

9

John Box

10

4

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Oliver! (1968)

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

10

F. Keogh Gleason

7

4

An American in Paris (1951)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1953)

Gigi (1958)


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References

Wikipedia. (2025). Academy Award for Best Production Design. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Production_Design [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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