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Top Films from Selected Costume Designers

Adrian [Greenberg]

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
2 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
3 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
4 Camille 1936 George Cukor 681
5 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 800
6 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 827
7 The Women 1939 George Cukor 835
8 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 911
9 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 922
10 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
11 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1562
12 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown 1789
13 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 1854
14 Naughty Marietta 1935 Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke 2311

Edith Head

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
3 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
5 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
6 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
7 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
8 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
9 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
10 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
11 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
12 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
13 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
14 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 487
15 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 622
16 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 665
17 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 711
18 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 723
19 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 724
20 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
21 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 809
22 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 895
23 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 975
24 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1045
25 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
26 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1091
27 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 1212
28 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 1278
29 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 Alexander Hall 1283
30 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1314
31 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1517
32 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1557
33 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1580
34 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
35 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 1781
36 The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges 1841
37 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939
38 Airport 1970 George Seaton 1979
39 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman 2147
40 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner 2187
41 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Robert Mulligan 2223
42 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255
43 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2365

Dorothy Jeakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
3 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
4 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 742
5 Fat City 1972 John Huston 761
6 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 773
7 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 804
8 The Dead 1987 John Huston 841
9 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 842
10 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 961
11 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1187
12 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1391
13 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
14 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 1951
15 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 2044
16 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille 2255

[George] Orry-Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
3 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
4 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
5 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
6 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 633
7 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 686
8 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 756
9 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 801
10 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1095
11 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1105
12 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 1113
13 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1145
14 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 1172
15 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1603
16 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1702
17 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1839
18 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2107
19 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 2160
20 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2181
21 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2259

Walter Plunkett

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
3 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
4 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
5 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 340
6 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
7 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 1053
8 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1102
9 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
10 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1372
11 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1441
12 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1525
13 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1620
14 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
15 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640
16 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1756
17 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman 1880
18 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 1993
19 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 2251

Ann Roth

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
2 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 231
3 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 767
4 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 789
5 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 958
6 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 983
7 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1051
8 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1085
9 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1325
10 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton 1350
11 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 1356
12 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 1633
13 Hair 1979 Milos Forman 1682
14 Primary Colors 1998 Mike Nichols 1711
15 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1741
16 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1817
17 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 1858
18 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 2308
19 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2384
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