There's No Business Like Show Business.

And what better what to start off this blog than with a comprehensive list of the Academy Award winners for Best Costume Design?

Note: Something I learned while doing my research was that between 1948 and 1966, the award was split into subcategories for color and black-and-white movies (with the exception of the year 1957 and 1958).

So here they are, ladies and gentlemen, the distinguished Oscar winners from 1948 to 2009:

1948 (B&W)- Roger K. Furse for Hamlet
1948 (Color)- Dorothy Jeakins & Barbara Karinska for Joan of Arc

1949 (B&W)- Edith Head, Gile Steele for The Heiress
1949 (Color)- Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes, William Travilla for Adventures of Don Juan

1950 (B&W)- Edith Head, Charles LeMaire for All About Eve
1950 (Color)- Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling for Samson and Delilah

1951 (B&W)- Edith Head for A Place in the Sun
1951 (Color)- Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff for An American in Paris

1952 (B&W)- Helen Rose for The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 (Color)- Marcel Vertes for Moulin Rouge

1953 (B&W)- Edith Head for Roman Holiday
1953 (Color)- Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago for The Robe

1954 (B&W)- Edith Head for Sabrina
1954 (Color)- Sanzo Wada for Gate of Hell

1955 (B&W)- Helen Rose for I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 (Color)- Charles LeMaire for Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

1956 (B&W)- Jean Louis for The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956 (Color)- Irene Sharaff for The King & I

1957-Orry-Kelly for Les Girls

1958- Cecil Beaton for Gigi

1959 (B&W)- Orry-Kelly for Some Like It Hot
1959 (Color)-Elizabeth Haffenden for Ben-Hur

1960 (B&W)- Edith Head, Edward Stevenson for The Facts of Life
1960 (Color)- Arlington Valles for Spartacus

1961 (B&W)- Piero Gherardi for La dolce vita
1961 (Color)- Irene Sharaff for West Side Story

1962 (B&W)- Norma Koch for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 (Color)- Mary Wills for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1963 (B&W)- Piero Gherardi for 8 1/2
1963 (Color)- Renie Conley, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Irene Sharaff for Cleopatra

1964 (B&W)- Dorothy Jeakins for The Night of the Iguana
1964 (Color)- Cecil Beaton for My Fair Lady

1965 (B&W)- Julie Harris for Darling
1965 (Color)- Phyllis Dalton for Doctor Zhivago

1966 (B&W)- Irene Sharaff for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 (Color)- Elizabeth Haffenden for A Man for All Seasons

1967-John Truscott for Camelot

1968- Danilo Donati for Romeo & Juliet

1969-Margaret Furse for Anne of the Thousand Days

1970- Vittorio Nino Novarese for Cromwell

1971- Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo for Nicholas and Alexandra

1972- Anthony Powell for Travels with My Aunt

1973- Edith Head for The Sting

1974-Theoni V. Alderedge for The Great Gatsby

1975- Milena Canonero, Ulla-Britt Soderland for Barry Lyndon

1976- Danilo Donati for Fellini's Casanova

1977- John Mollo for Star Wars

1978- Anthony Powell for Death on the Nile

1979- Albert Wolsky for All That Jazz

1980- Anthony Powell for Tess

1981-Milena Canonero for Chariots of Fire

1982- Bhanu Athaiya, Madeline Jones, John Mollo for Gandhi

1983-Marik Vos for Fanny and Alexander

1984- Theodor Pistek for Amadeus

1985- Emi Wada for Ran

1986- Jenny Beavan, John Bright for A Room with a View

1987- James Acheson for The Last Emperor

1988- James Acheson for Dangerous Liaisons

1989- Phyllis Dalton for Henry V

1990- Franca Squarciapino for Cyrano de Bergerac

1991-Albert Wolsky for Bugsy

1992- Eiko Ishioka for Bram Stoker's Dracula

1993- Gabrielle Pescucci for The Age of Innocence

1994- Tim Chappel, Lizzy Gardiner for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1995- James Acheson for Restoration

1996- Ann Roth for The English Patient

1997- Deborah Lynn Scott for Titanic

1998- Sandy Powell for Shakespeare in Love

1999- Lindy Hemming for Topsy-Turvy

2000- Janty Yates for Gladiator

2001- Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie for Moulin Rouge!

2002- Colleen Atwood for Chicago

2003- Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004- Sandy Powell for The Aviator

2005- Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha

2006- Milena Canonero for Marie Antoinette

2007- Alexandra Bryne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2008- Michael O'Connor for The Dutchess

2009- Sandy Powell for The Young Victoria


Exhaustive lists are exhausting to type! Who knew?