# AACTA Award for Best Costume Design

The AACTA Award for Best Costume Design is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films. From 1977 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current prize being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Costume Design. Terry Ryan has received the most awards in this category with five.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years listed correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the same year. The films and costume designers in bold and in yellow background have won are the winners. Those that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the other nominees.
| Year | Film | Costume designer(s) |
| AFI Awards |||
| 1970s |||
| 1977 (19th) |
| 1977 (19th) | The Picture Show Man | Judith Dorsman |
| 1977 (19th) | Let the Balloon Go | Ron Williams |
| 1977 (19th) | Oz | Robbie Perkins |
| 1977 (19th) | Storm Boy | Helen Dyson |
| 1978 (20th) |
| 1978 (20th) | Newsfront | Norma Moriceau |
| 1978 (20th) | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Bruce Finlayson |
| 1978 (20th) | The Getting of Wisdom | Anna Senior |
| 1978 (20th) | The Mango Tree | Patricia Forster |
| 1979 (21st) |
| 1979 (21st) | My Brilliant Career | Anna Senior |
| 1979 (21st) | The Last of the Knucklemen | Kevin Regan |
| 1979 (21st) | Mad Max | Clare Griffin |
| 1979 (21st) | The Night the Prowler | Luciana Arrighi |
| 1980s |||
| 1980 (22nd) |
| 1980 (22nd) | Breaker Morant | Anna Senior |
| 1980 (22nd) | The Chain Reaction | Norma Moriceau |
| 1980 (22nd) | Harlequin | Terry Ryan |
| 1980 (22nd) | Manganinnie | Graham Purcell |
| 1981 (23rd) |
| 1981 (23rd) | Fatty Finn | Norma Moriceau |
| 1981 (23rd) | The Club | Ruth De la Lande |
| 1981 (23rd) | Gallipoli | Terry Ryan, Wendy Weir |
| 1981 (23rd) | Hoodwink | Ross Major |
| 1982 (24th) |
| 1982 (24th) | Mad Max 2 | Norma Moriceau |
| 1982 (24th) | The Pirate Movie | Aphrodite Kondos |
| 1982 (24th) | Starstruck | Luciana Arrighi, Terry Ryan |
| 1982 (24th) | We of the Never Never | Camilla Rountree |
| 1983 (25th) |
| 1983 (25th) | Careful, He Might Hear You | Bruce Finlayson |
| 1983 (25th) | Phar Lap | Anna Senior |
| 1983 (25th) | Undercover | Kristian Fredrikson |
| 1983 (25th) | The Year of Living Dangerously | Terry Ryan |
| 1984 (26th) |
| 1984 (26th) | Silver City | Jan Hurley |
| 1984 (26th) | One Night Stand | Ross Major |
| 1984 (26th) | Street Hero | Norma Moriceau |
| 1984 (26th) | Strikebound | Jennie Tate |
| 1985 (27th) |
| 1985 (27th) | Rebel | Roger Kirk |
| 1985 (27th) | Bliss | Helen Hooper |
| 1985 (27th) | The Boy Who Had Everything | Ross Major |
| 1985 (27th) | The Coca-Cola Kid | Terry Ryan |
| 1986 (28th) |
| 1986 (28th) | Kangaroo | Terry Ryan |
| 1986 (28th) | Burke & Wills | George Liddle |
| 1986 (28th) | For Love Alone | Jennie Tate |
| 1986 (28th) | Playing Beatie Bow | George Liddle |
| 1987 (29th) |
| 1987 (29th) | The Umbrella Woman | Steve Dobson |
| 1987 (29th) | Bullseye | George Liddle |
| 1987 (29th) | The Place at the Coast | Jennie Tate |
| 1987 (29th) | Those Dear Departed | Roger Ford |
| 1988 (30th) |
| 1988 (30th) | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Glenys Jackson |
| 1988 (30th) | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Cheryl McCloud |
| 1988 (30th) | Mull | Jeanie Cameron |
| 1988 (30th) | Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds | Angela Tonks, Mathu Anderson |
| 1989 (31st) |
| 1989 (31st) | What the Moon Saw | Rose Chong |
| 1989 (31st) | Georgia | Aphrodite Kondos |
| 1989 (31st) | Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | Karen Everett |
| 1989 (31st) | Sons of Steel | Gary L. Keady, Nicholas Huxley, Nicola Braithwaite |
| 1990s |||
| 1990 (32nd) |
| 1990 (32nd) | Blood Oath | Roger Kirk |
| 1990 (32nd) | Hunting | Aphrodite Kondos |
| 1990 (32nd) | Two Brothers Running | Michelle Leonard |
| 1990 (32nd) | Weekend with Kate | Michelle Leonard |
| 1991 (33rd) |
| 1991 (33rd) | Spotswood | Tess Schofield |
| 1991 (33rd) | Aya | Jennie Tate |
| 1991 (33rd) | Isabelle Eberhardt | Mic Cheminal |
| 1991 (33rd) | Waiting | Murray Picknett |
| 1992 (34th) |
| 1992 (34th) | Strictly Ballroom | Angus Strathie |
| 1992 (34th) | Black Robe | Renée April, John Hay |
| 1992 (34th) | Love in Limbo | Clarissa Patterson |
| 1992 (34th) | Romper Stomper | Anna Borghesi |
| 1993 (35th) |
| 1993 (35th) | The Piano | Janet Patterson |
| 1993 (35th) | Frauds | Fiona Spence |
| 1993 (35th) | Gross Misconduct | Aphrodite Kondos |
| 1993 (35th) | The Nostradamus Kid | Roger Ford |
| 1993 (35th) | Say a Little Prayer | Lynn-Maree Milburn, Jacqui Everitt |
| 1994 (36th) |
| 1994 (36th) | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel |
| 1994 (36th) | Body Melt | Anna Borghesi |
| 1994 (36th) | Country Life | Wendy Chuck |
| 1994 (36th) | Muriel's Wedding | Terry Ryan |
| 1995 (37th) |
| 1995 (37th) | Billy's Holiday | Terry Ryan |
| 1995 (37th) | Metal Skin | Anna Borghesi |
| 1995 (37th) | Mushrooms | George Liddle |
| 1995 (37th) | That Eye, the Sky | Vicki Friedman |
| 1996 (38th) |
| 1996 (38th) | Children of the Revolution | Terry Ryan |
| 1996 (38th) | Love Serenade | Anna Borghesi |
| 1996 (38th) | Mr. Reliable | Tess Schofield |
| 1996 (38th) | Shine | Louise Wakefield |
| 1997 (39th) |
| 1997 (39th) | Doing Time for Patsy Cline | Louise Wakefield |
| 1997 (39th) | Kiss or Kill | Ruth De la Lande |
| 1997 (39th) | Thank God He Met Lizzie | Edie Kurzer |
| 1997 (39th) | The Well | Anna Borghesi |
| 1998 (40th) |
| 1998 (40th) | Oscar and Lucinda | Janet Patterson |
| 1998 (40th) | The Boys | Annie Marshall |
| 1998 (40th) | Head On | Anna Borghesi |
| 1998 (40th) | The Sound of One Hand Clapping | Aphrodite Kondos |
| 1999 (41st) |
| 1999 (41st) | Passion | Terry Ryan |
| 1999 (41st) | In a Savage Land | Edie Kurzer |
| 1999 (41st) | Praise | Emily Seresin |
| 1999 (41st) | Two Hands | Emily Seresin |
| 2000s |||
| 2000 (42nd) |
| 2000 (42nd) | Bootmen | Tess Schofield |
| 2000 (42nd) | 15 Amore | Emma Hamilton Lewis |
| 2000 (42nd) | Walk the Talk | Louise Wakefield |
| 2000 (42nd) | The Wog Boy | Paul Warren |
| 2001 (43rd) |
| 2001 (43rd) | Moulin Rouge! | Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie |
| 2001 (43rd) | The Bank | Annie Marshall |
| 2001 (43rd) | Lantana | Margot Wilson |
| 2001 (43rd) | La Spagnola | Margot Wilson |
| 2002 (44th) |
| 2002 (44th) | Dirty Deeds | Tess Schofield |
| 2002 (44th) | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Roger Ford |
| 2002 (44th) | Swimming Upstream | Angus Strathie |
| 2002 (44th) | WillFull | George Liddle |
| 2003 (45th) |
| 2003 (45th) | Ned Kelly | Anna Borghesi |
| 2003 (45th) | Black and White | Annie Marshall |
| 2003 (45th) | Gettin' Square | Jackline Sassine |
| 2003 (45th) | The Night We Called It a Day | Emily Seresin |
| 2004 (46th) |
| 2004 (46th) | Somersault | Emily Seresin |
| 2004 (46th) | Love's Brother | Anna Borghesi |
| 2004 (46th) | One Perfect Day | Katie Graham |
| 2004 (46th) | Tom White | Jill Johanson |
| 2005 (47th) |
| 2005 (47th) | The Proposition | Margot Wilson |
| 2005 (47th) | Hating Alison Ashley | Paul Warren |
| 2005 (47th) | Little Fish | Melinda Doring |
| 2005 (47th) | Look Both Ways | Edie Kurzer |
| 2006 (48th) |
| 2006 (48th) | Macbeth | Jane Johnston |
| 2006 (48th) | The Book of Revelation | Anna Borghesi |
| 2006 (48th) | Kokoda | Phill Eagles |
| 2006 (48th) | Suburban Mayhem | Melinda Doring |
| 2007 (49th) |
| 2007 (49th) | The Home Song Stories | Cappi Ireland |
| 2007 (49th) | Clubland | Emily Seresin |
| 2007 (49th) | Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance | Ariane Weiss |
| 2007 (49th) | Romulus, My Father | Jodie Fried |
| 2008 (50th) |
| 2008 (50th) | The Tender Hook | Cappi Ireland |
| 2008 (50th) | The Children of Huang Shi | Wenyan Gao, Kym Barrett |
| 2008 (50th) | Death Defying Acts | Susannah Buxton |
| 2008 (50th) | Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger | Shareen Beringer |
| 2009 (51st) |
| 2009 (51st) | Australia | Catherine Martin, Eliza Godman |
| 2009 (51st) | Balibo | Cappi Ireland |
| 2009 (51st) | Lucky Country | Mariot Kerr |
| 2009 (51st) | Mao's Last Dancer | Anna Borghesi |
| 2010s |||
| 2010 (52nd) |
| 2010 (52nd) | Bright Star | Janet Patterson |
| 2010 (52nd) | Animal Kingdom | Cappi Ireland |
| 2010 (52nd) | Beneath Hill 60 | Ian Sparke, Wendy Cork |
| 2010 (52nd) | Bran Nue Dae | Margot Wilson |
| AACTA Awards |||
| 2011 (1st) |
| 2011 (1st) | The Eye of the Storm | Terry Ryan |
| 2011 (1st) | The Hunter | Emily Seresin |
| 2011 (1st) | Oranges and Sunshine | Cappi Ireland |
| 2011 (1st) | Sleeping Beauty | Shareen Beringer |
| 2012 (2nd) |
| 2012 (2nd) | The Sapphires | Tess Schofield |
| 2012 (2nd) | Burning Man | Lizzy Gardiner |
| 2012 (2nd) | Lore | Stefanie Bieker |
| 2012 (2nd) | Mental | Tim Chappel |
| 2013 (3rd) |
| 2013 (3rd) | The Great Gatsby | Catherine Martin, Silvana Azzi Heras, Kerry Thompson |
| 2013 (3rd) | Adoration | Joanna Mae Park |
| 2013 (3rd) | Goddess | Shareen Beringer |
| 2013 (3rd) | The Rocket | Woranun Pueakpun, Sylvia Wilczynski |
| 2014 (4th) |
| 2014 (4th) | The Water Diviner | Tess Schofield |
| 2014 (4th) | Predestination | Wendy Cork |
| 2014 (4th) | The Railway Man | Lizzy Gardiner |
| 2014 (4th) | Tracks | Mariot Kerr |
| 2015 (5th) |
| 2015 (5th) | The Dressmaker | Marion Boyce, Margot Wilson |
| 2015 (5th) | Cut Snake | Cappi Ireland |
| 2015 (5th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Jenny Beavan |
| 2015 (5th) | Partisan | Maria Pattison, Sarah Cyngler |
| 2016 (6th) |
| 2016 (6th) | Girl Asleep | Jonathon Oxlade |
| 2016 (6th) | Gods of Egypt | Liz Palmer |
| 2016 (6th) | Hacksaw Ridge | Lizzy Gardiner |
| 2016 (6th) | Spear | Jennifer Irwin |
| 2017 (7th) |
| 2017 (7th) | Lion | Cappi Ireland |
| 2017 (7th) | Berlin Syndrome | Maria Pattison |
| 2017 (7th) | Dance Academy: The Movie | Tess Schofield |
| 2017 (7th) | Jasper Jones | Margot Wilson |
| 2018 (8th) |
| 2018 (8th) | Ladies in Black | Wendy Cork |
| 2018 (8th) | Mary Magdalene | Jacqueline Durran |
| 2018 (8th) | Sweet Country | Heather Wallace |
| 2018 (8th) | Winchester | Wendy Cork |
| 2019 (9th) |
| 2019 (9th) | The King | Jane Petrie |
| 2019 (9th) | Hotel Mumbai | Anna Borghesi |
| 2019 (9th) | Judy and Punch | Edie Kurzer |
| 2019 (9th) | The Nightingale | Margot Wilson |
| 2020s |||
| 2020 (10th) |
| 2020 (10th) | True History of the Kelly Gang | Alice Babidge |
| 2020 (10th) | H is for Happiness | Terri Lamera |
| 2020 (10th) | I Am Woman | Emily Seresin |
| 2020 (10th) | Measure for Measure | Zohie Castellano, Olivia Simpson |
| 2020 (10th) | Standing Up for Sunny | Nina Edwards |
| 2021 (11th) |
| 2021 (11th) | High Ground | Erin Roche |
| 2021 (11th) | The Dry | Cappi Ireland |
| 2021 (11th) | Mortal Kombat | Cappi Ireland |
| 2021 (11th) | Nitram | Alice Babidge |
| 2021 (11th) | Rams | Tess Schofield |