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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 15
2 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
3 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
4 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
5 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
6 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
7 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1462
8 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 1858
9 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2006
10 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 2226

Colleen Atwood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
2 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
3 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
4 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 617
5 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
6 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 782
7 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 828
8 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1006
9 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann 1377
10 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1764
11 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1786
12 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 1807
13 Mission: Impossible III 2006 J.J. Abrams 2454
14 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart 2665

Milena Canonero

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
2 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
3 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
4 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 450
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 774
6 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 917
7 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 930
8 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 1703
9 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1805
10 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1826
11 Solaris 2002 Steven Soderbergh 2161
12 Marie Antoinette 2006 Sofia Coppola 2479
13 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson 2741

Edith Head

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
2 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
3 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
4 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
5 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
7 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
8 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
9 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
10 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
11 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
12 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
13 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
14 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
15 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
16 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 845
17 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 871
18 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 884
19 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 899
20 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
21 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1115
22 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 1269
23 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1283
24 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1391
25 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1394
26 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 1446
27 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
28 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 1497
29 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1756
30 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1873
31 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1876
32 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2026
33 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
34 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 2105
35 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks 2172
36 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 2208
37 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2254
38 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 2401
39 The Great McGinty 1940 Preston Sturges 2462
40 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 2578
41 Ministry of Fear 1944 Fritz Lang 2653

Dorothy Jeakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
3 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 620
4 Fat City 1972 John Huston 964
5 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1114
6 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1293
7 The Dead 1987 John Huston 1406
8 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1502
9 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 1570
10 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1773
11 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 2143
12 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 2148
13 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 2714

[George] Orry-Kelly

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
2 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
3 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
4 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
5 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 533
6 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 612
7 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 664
8 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 907
9 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 933
10 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 981
11 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1100
12 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
13 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1755
14 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 1824
15 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 2100
16 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2299
17 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 2331
18 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2551
19 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 2646
20 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2765
21 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 2778

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 32
3 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
4 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
5 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
6 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1169
7 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1285
8 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
9 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1656
10 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1868
11 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1891
12 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2047
13 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 2096
14 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2182
15 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 2348

Sandy Powell

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
2 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 592
3 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter 955
4 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 958
5 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 1083
6 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes 1099
7 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 1120
8 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 1160
9 Carol 2015 Todd Haynes 1279
10 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1492
11 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1605
12 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1774
13 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Todd Haynes 2307
14 Caravaggio 1986 Derek Jarman 2663

Ann Roth

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
2 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 510
3 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 880
4 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 979
5 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 1253
6 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1334
7 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1403
8 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1515
9 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1538
10 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 1601
11 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1731
12 Hair 1979 Milos Forman 1746
13 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1924
14 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 2007
15 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2056
16 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2194
17 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley 2327
18 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2411
19 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 2426
20 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 2639
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