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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 9
2 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
3 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
4 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 573
5 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
6 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1662
7 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1701
8 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch 2114
9 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 2119
10 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 2186
11 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2264
12 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 2664
13 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 3018

Colleen Atwood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
2 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 199
3 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 623
4 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 674
5 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 694
6 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 763
7 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 792
8 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 998
9 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1377
10 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1441
11 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann 1626
12 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2083
13 Public Enemies 2009 Michael Mann 2188
14 Mission: Impossible III 2006 J.J. Abrams 2521
15 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart 2665
16 That Thing You Do! 1996 Tom Hanks 2931

Milena Canonero

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
2 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
3 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 233
4 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 467
5 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 504
6 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 916
7 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 1259
8 Marie Antoinette 2006 Sofia Coppola 1793
9 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1802
10 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 2115
11 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 2171
12 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson 2867
13 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2969

Edith Head

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
3 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
5 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
7 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 239
8 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
9 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 389
10 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
11 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
12 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 892
13 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 898
14 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 921
15 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
16 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 1053
17 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
18 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1333
19 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 1349
20 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1419
21 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1465
22 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1557
23 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1610
24 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1743
25 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 1843
26 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 2340
27 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2403
28 The Uninvited 1944 Lewis Allen 2410
29 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2426
30 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 2561
31 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2613
32 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2643
33 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 2653
34 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 2671
35 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2766
36 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 2772
37 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 2777

Dorothy Jeakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 279
3 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 810
4 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1180
5 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1343
6 Fat City 1972 John Huston 1413
7 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1440
8 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1497
9 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 1781
10 The Dead 1987 John Huston 2066
11 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 2616
12 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler 2888

[George] Orry-Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
2 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
3 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
4 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 656
5 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 734
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 1012
7 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 1191
8 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1260
9 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1351
10 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1586
11 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 1672
12 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 2445
13 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 2463
14 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 2505
15 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2543
16 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 2942

Walter Plunkett

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
3 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 68
4 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 183
5 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1392
6 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1519
7 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1564
8 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1846
9 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 2025
10 The Informer 1935 John Ford 2294
11 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 2581
12 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2605
13 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2818
14 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 2916

Sandy Powell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
2 Carol 2015 Todd Haynes 545
3 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 613
4 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 638
5 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 919
6 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 924
7 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter 926
8 The Irishman 2019 Martin Scorsese 976
9 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 1026
10 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1334
11 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1532
12 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1704
13 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes 1768
14 The Favourite 2018 Yorgos Lanthimos 1946
15 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Todd Haynes 2524

Ann Roth

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
2 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 584
3 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 941
4 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 980
5 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 1035
6 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1174
7 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 1229
8 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1405
9 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1445
10 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1559
11 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 1581
12 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 1878
13 Hair 1979 Milos Forman 1937
14 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 2112
15 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2128
16 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley 2176
17 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 2209
18 The Village 2004 M. Night Shyamalan 2390
19 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2559
20 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2728
21 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 2994
22 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella 3014
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