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Top Films from Selected Costume Designers

Edith Head

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
2 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
3 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
4 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
5 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
6 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
7 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
8 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
9 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
10 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
11 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
12 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
13 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
14 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
15 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
16 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
17 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
18 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
19 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 509
20 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
21 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 546
22 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 600
23 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
24 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 682
25 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 693
26 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 711
27 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
28 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 872
29 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 890
30 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 922
31 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 934
32 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 938
33 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 959
34 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 965
35 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1016
36 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1200
37 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 1384
38 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 1415
39 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1444
40 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1459
41 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 1511
42 The Uninvited 1944 Lewis Allen 1605
43 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1638
44 The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges 1813
45 Airport 1970 George Seaton 2102
46 I Married a Witch 1942 René Clair 2136
47 Sweet Charity 1969 Bob Fosse 2147
48 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson 2168
49 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
50 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
51 This Gun for Hire 1942 Frank Tuttle 2293
52 Separate Tables 1958 Delbert Mann 2437
53 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2460
54 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2514

Dorothy Jeakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
3 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
4 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 587
5 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 647
6 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
7 Fat City 1972 John Huston 795
8 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 825
9 The Dead 1987 John Huston 856
10 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1105
11 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
12 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 1161
13 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1459
14 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 1565
15 Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler 1884
16 Cyrano de Bergerac 1950 Michael Gordon 2118
17 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
18 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway 2351

Orry-Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
2 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
3 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
4 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
5 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
7 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
8 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 602
9 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 651
10 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 790
11 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 811
12 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 824
13 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 859
14 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 898
15 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1024
16 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1219
17 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1308
18 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 1654
19 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock 1692
20 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1719
21 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 1793
22 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 1835
23 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 1975
24 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 William Keighley 2194

Jean Louis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
2 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
3 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
4 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 487
5 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
6 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
7 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
8 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
9 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 614
10 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 721
11 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 774
12 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 801
13 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
14 The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 Roy Rowland 1441
15 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1529
16 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868
17 The Reckless Moment 1949 Max Ophüls 2065
18 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2186
19 Ship of Fools 1965 Stanley Kramer 2214

Walter Plunkett

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
3 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
4 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
5 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 427
6 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 555
7 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
8 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 863
9 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1086
10 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1096
11 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1133
12 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
13 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1462
14 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
15 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1526
16 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 1920
17 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 2135
18 King Solomon's Mines 1950 Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton 2142
19 Show Boat 1951 George Sidney 2226
20 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 2400
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