| Year | Film | Designers | |
| 2009 |
| The Duchess | Michael O'Connor | |
| 2008 |
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Alexandra Byrne | |
| 2007 |
| Marie Antoinette | Milena Canonero | |
| 2006 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Colleen Atwood | |
| 2005 |
| The Aviator | Sandy Powell | |
| 2004 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor | |
| 2003 |
| Chicago | Colleen Atwood | |
| 2002 |
| Moulin Rouge | Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie | |
| 2001 |
| Gladiator | Janty Yates | |
| 2000 |
| Topsy-Turvy | Lindy Hemming | |
| 1999 |
| Shakespeare in Love | Sandy Powell | |
| 1998 |
| Titanic | Deborah L. Scott | |
| 1997 |
| The English Patient | Ann Roth | |
| 1996 |
| Restoration | James Acheson | |
| 1995 |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel | |
| 1994 |
| The Age of Innocence | Gabriella Pescucci | |
| 1993 |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Eiko Ishioka | |
| 1992 |
| Bugsy | Albert Wolsky | |
| 1991 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Franca Squarciapino | |
| 1990 |
| Henry V | Phyllis Dalton | |
| 1989 |
| Dangerous Liaisons | James Acheson | |
| 1988 |
| The Last Emperor | James Acheson | |
| 1987 |
| A Room with a View | Jenny Beavan, John Bright | |
| 1986 |
| Ran | Emi Wada | |
| 1985 |
| Amadeus | Theodor Pistek | |
| 1984 |
| Fanny & Alexander | Marik Vos | |
| 1983 |
| Gandhi | John Mollo, Bhanu Athaiya | |
| 1982 |
| Chariots of Fire | Milena Canonero | |
| 1981 |
| Tess | Anthony Powell | |
| 1980 |
| All That Jazz | Albert Wolsky | |
| 1979 |
| Death on the Nile | Anthony Powell | |
| 1978 |
| Star Wars | John Mollo | |
| 1977 |
| Fellini's Casanova | Danilo Donati | |
| 1976 |
| Barry Lyndon | Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero | |
| 1975 |
| The Great Gatsby | Theoni V. Aldredge | |
| 1974 |
| The Sting | Edith Head | |
| 1973 |
| Travels with My Aunt | Anthony Powell | |
| 1972 |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo | |
| 1971 |
| Cromwell | Nino Novarese | |
| 1970 |
| Anne of the Thousand Days | Margaret Furse | |
| 1969 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Danilo Donati | |
| 1968 |
| Camelot | John Truscott | |
| 1967 |
| A Man for All Seasons | Elizabeth Haffenden, Joan Bridge | |
| 1967 |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Irene Sharaff | |
| 1966 |
| Darling | Julie Harris | |
| 1966 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Phyllis Dalton | |
| 1965 |
| My Fair Lady | Cecil Beaton | |
| 1965 |
| The Night of the Iguana | Dorothy Jeakins | |
| 1964 |
| Cleopatra | Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie | |
| 1964 |
| Federico Fellini's 8-1/2 | Piero Gherardi | |
| 1963 |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Mary Wills | |
| 1963 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Norma Koch | |
| 1962 |
| La Dolce Vita | Piero Gherardi | |
| 1962 |
| West Side Story | Irene Sharaff | |
| 1961 |
| Spartacus | Valles, Bill Thomas | |
| 1961 |
| The Facts of Life | Edith Head, Edward Stevenson | |
| 1960 |
| Ben-Hur | Elizabeth Haffenden | |
| 1960 |
| Some Like It Hot | Orry-Kelly | |
| 1959 |
| Gigi | Cecil Beaton | |
| 1958 |
| Les Girls | Orry-Kelly | |
| 1957 |
| The King and I | Irene Sharaff | |
| 1957 |
| The Solid Gold Cadillac | Jean Louis | |
| 1956 |
| I'll Cry Tomorrow | Helen Rose | |
| 1956 |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Charles LeMaire | |
| 1955 |
| Gate of Hell | Sanzo Wada | |
| 1955 |
| Sabrina | Edith Head | |
| 1954 |
| Roman Holiday | Edith Head | |
| 1954 |
| The Robe | Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago | |
| 1953 |
| Moulin Rouge | Marcel Vertes | |
| 1953 |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Helen Rose | |
| 1952 |
| A Place in the Sun | Edith Head | |
| 1952 |
| An American in Paris | Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff | |
| 1951 |
| All about Eve | Edith Head, Charles LeMaire | |
| 1951 |
| Samson and Delilah | Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling | |
| 1950 |
| The Adventures of Don Juan | Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best | |
| 1950 |
| The Heiress | Edith Head, Gile Steele | |
| 1949 |
| Hamlet | Roger K. Furse | |
| 1949 |
| Joan of Arc | Dorothy Jeakins, Karinska | |